General Information About Decorative Painting Decorative painting is a visual art which has enabled people from the earliest times to express and share their innate creativity. Even now, through the use of pigments and brushes we decorate and personalize our surroundings, adding a touch of human warmth and artistry to our mechanized, utilitarian world. Painting is done in oils, watercolors, or acrylics, and in conjunction with other decorative techniques.
Decorative painting is a learned skill, much as handwriting or walking.
Artistic talent and drawing ability are not required. Patterns and instructions abound to aid the decorative painter in all areas of the art. An introduction to the basic brush strokes and combinations, along with blending techniques and color mixing soon has an aspiring artist well on the way to satisfying an innate desire to paint and create. Decorative artists draw inspiration from divergent ethnic art forms including Norwegian, German, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Mexican, Hungarian, Swedish and so on. The scope broadens as we continue to re-discover old techniques, experiment with new ones, and pass our discoveries on to others through classes and instruction books.