Books

Celtic Stencil Designs

Dover Publications is a wonderful resource offering a vast array of books, CD’s, DVD’s, etc.  Stencil designs, royalty free clip art, children’s activities, and reference materials can be found among the Dover offerings.  

You can also sign up for the Dover Sampler, which delivers free sample pages to your email to print each week.  Publications are very reasonably priced with many bargains to be found!

Japanese Floral Stencil Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Art Nouveau Floral Patterns and Stencil Designs in Full Color

Traditional Japanese Stencil Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

I was recently looking through some of my stencil related books and decided it might be fun to learn what goes on behind the scene, to produce such books. I pulled Stenciling Kids’ Rooms: Creative Designs for Bedrooms, Play Spaces, and Nurseries, down off of my shelf and contacted one of the contributors and fellow decorative painter, Merilee Sawusch. Merilee is the long time owner of Merilee’s Murals, Etc. and lives in Libertyville, IL.

Merilee’s contributing project, “Pocket Pals Organizer”, appears on page 48. I found this book at Barnes and Noble, about 1 year ago, in the Bargain Bin for under $10. It truly is a bargain at that price, with its complete instructions and ready to use stencils, for 20 projects. This book is geared toward the beginner and comes with excellent tips and demonstrations.

I was very curious to know just what went into the whole process, so picked Merilee’s brain a bit! Here is my interview with Merilee: (more…)