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Part 1 Gathering your materials: a master list; paints; brushes; other essential supplies; perparing your palette. Part 2 Preparing the painting surface: wood; metal; other surfaces; basecoating; staining; insets, borders, banding, and stripes. Part 3 Design and colour: the creative process; transferring a design; your colour personality; colour basics. Part 4 Working with a brush: strokework; brush-sketching; lettering; special brush-loading techniques. Part 5 Painting and finishing techniques: working wet-in-wet; working with a dry brush; glazing or antiquing; stain painting; Kleister painting; faux finishes; metallic and iridescent effects; distressing and ageing; finishing techniques. Part 6 Traditional influences: the writing of an icon; brides' boxes; Tolz rose; appenzell; chinoiserie; English Jappaned wares; Russian lacquered miniatures; Zhostovo florals; Italian and Venetian florals; Norwegian rosemaling; dala painting; English narrow boat painting; French toile; hindeloopen; other influences. Part 7 Expanding the traditions: country tin painting; fraktur; rebirth - collecting begins the interest; Peter Hunt; Peter Ompir; Per Lysne. Part 8 Contemporary expressions: the merry makers; miniatures; soft-stroke florals; golden scrolls; the autumn rose of Telemark; glazed strawberries; spotted roosters and speckled hens; pheasants; wide-mouth bass; old-world wash and scrub; designing to a theme - tulips.