Hand Painted Detailed Furniture Made EASY

If you are anything like me, your not the greatest free hand artist. I love the look of perfection on a painted furniture, but certainly cannot attain the look with my own talent. Having a hand painted detailed piece of furniture is an exquisite find, and you can create this look without any special talent, or investing the time to become a great free hand artist. How can you have that professional painted furniture piece without spending thousands or having it look amateur?

It is called tracing paper my friends. Detailed hand sketching and painting is quite a bit easier when you can copy an image that is perfectly proportionate. Using tracing paper and a simple pencil, your images can look quite stunning as these several thousand dollar chests. All these chests pictured in this post are quite a bit of money, because they were most likely done by hand by exceptional artists. For you and I, they serve as inspiration to what we could create with some exceptional images and a bit of imagination. All that is needed from you is time (yes lots of time) and patience to copy detailed images.

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Depending on the style, your first step is to paint the overall background color on to your painted piece.

{It is always important to lightly sand your furniture piece before painting. The last thing you want is to finish a detailed pattern, and have your paint peel}

Consider using a flat finish as your base paint, as it is very easily accepting of drawn images on the surface than semigloss, or eggshell. The finish is just like paper, so it will be much easier to use as a canvas with liquid pens. Once you have drawn your image on to your furniture piece, use a colored pen to go over the traced images. From there, follow your inspiration pattern for color filling and additional colors.

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