Beginner's Guide to Painting on Wood

A complete guide on how to use various types of paint to complete your woodcarving projects! Author and professional woodcarver Betty Padden provides clear, detailed instruction for each paint type - acrylics, oil paints, latex paints, and thinned acrylics. Featuring step-by-step instructions, coordinating photography, material lists, and wood carving patterns, also included is insightful advice and expert tips on working with each type of paint on wood. Learn how to choose brushes, blend color, prepare wood, add details, and so much more!

Betty Padden has been a professional wood carver for more than 35 years. She is the author of three books-Lettering & Sign Carving Workbook, Carving & Painting Christmas Ornaments, and Carving and Painting Noah's Ark-and is a regular contributor to Woodcarving Illustrated magazine. Betty and her husband, Bob, own the Wooden Apple Signmakers in Auburn, Mass., providing custom carved signs for both residential customers and commercial clients like the Walt Disney Company and Anheuser-Busch. Betty and Bob have offered classes on the fine art of wood carving to students in their studio since 1979.