Easy Design Techniques for Porcelain. by Tailor, Heather; Jones, Helen - 1993

Sydney, Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1993. 1st ed.. Hardback quarto, no jacket, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white drawings, colour photos, spine little faded. 87 pp. This book gives instructions on how to start from a realistic drawing and develop a series of stylised and abstracted designs suitable for china painting and other decorative arts such as stained glass, embroidery, fabric painting, textiles and stencilling. There are colour photos of ten flowers, detailed line drawings in black & white accompany each flower, with pages of creative designs. Over forty of the designs are in colour, painted onto porcelain using mixed media techniques such as lustre, gold, texture, metallics and bright onglaze colours. The instructions for each piece are described in a separate chapter.