Paint Can!

Book excerpt: A few years ago, decorative painter Sunny Goode created Sunny’s Goodtime Paints with a single goal in mind: giving everyone the means to reproduce the beauty of old fresco plaster, stone walls, or glazed finishes in their own homes. Paint Can!--a lavishly illustrated, inspiring, and instructive primer on how to add decorative flourishes with paint--is the next logical step in her mission. She offers a complete on-the-page course called "Paint 101” and explains just what paint can do, from highlighting architectural details to making small rooms appear larger. And almost every technique is here: colorwashing, working freehand, stenciling, glazing, imitating stoneblock, and adding patterns to a surface. It’s the simple way to add color and personality to every room. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.