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Traditional Tole Painting |
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Traditional Tole Painting and a little of its history. |
'What is Tole'? That's the first question most people ask - a short explanation. The word Tole comes from the French, meaning lacquered or enamelled metal-ware, often gilded. It also means a table or board. From the Archival records and articles in the UK, it is known that the Schools of Art of the time (1700's) took apprentices and trained them, in either the 'one-stroke' style required for decorating furniture, or the 'one-stroke' style required for decorating pottery. (Those not able to afford the School of Art costs, spent years learning from the Master Painter within a firm).
In Traditional Tole, Oil paint was, and still is, the medium used. Two or more colours are loaded into the brush to complete each element of the design, painted wet-on-wet with one stroke of the brush. Tole is often referred to as 'one stroke painting'. Today, most of this type of skilled, historical, decoration, often comes under the general heading of Decorative Art. The above information is from Archival records, articles and papers in the UK. Jacqui Blackman © 1991-4 Wedgwood Derby Porcelain Chippendale Tole Gallery Tole Brush Strokes Tole Mugs One Stroke Brushes Celebration Mug Gilded Tea Tray There is a single leaf painting demonstration here Copyright© Jacqui Blackman 1999 |
You may wonder why the pages about Tole and Decorative painting are on the Zest-it Art Materials site? When this site was first put up in 1999, I was developing the Zest-it range and teaching Tole and Oil painting via workshops, so both were part of the site. There are many hundreds of links to these pages and so the site stays as it is - unique and different. Copyright© Jacqui Blackman 1999 |
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