One Stroke Painting 1
One Stroke Painting 1
One Stroke Painting is an innovative style of decorative painting devised by Donna Dewberry. The One Stroke method allows for blending, shading, and highlighting all in one stroke.
One Stroke Painting is also known as "Tole Painting".Tole is a French word, 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).
Most of the Schools of Art taught the painting method, whereby a single stroke was used to produce the leaf, scroll, bird, fountain or flower of the design. The brushes(paint brushes are called pencils in the Pottery trade) were 'double' and 'triple' loaded, to produce the highlight, body colour and shadow, of the petal, leaf or element, painted wet-on-wet and with a single stroke of the brush. This quick method of painting was used for commercial reasons - to speedily decorate the furniture, pottery and trays ready for sale.
So, although the brush carried one, two, three or more colours, it would have taken only 'one stroke' of the brush to produce the more complicated shading, giving depth and beauty to the design. It would have taken much longer to blend these colours together had they been added separately.
Kalasiddhiart presents wall frames which have been handpainted using One Stroke Painting technique to adorn/design your walls or to be gifted on any occasion.
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