Anne Young is a self-taught narrow boat artist with over 20 years of practical experience. since retiring from painting boats, she has concentrated on producing articles for the home, using the tradition and colourful narrow boat art as a form of decoration. Anne lives in Haslemere, Surrey.

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This inspirational guide gives instructions on how to paint traditional narrow boat designs onto familiar objects, including scales, jugs, rusty irons, pictures, frames and more. The author also provides a history of how this art form evolved, along with places of interest and useful addresses.

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Foreword Introduction 1 materials 2 backgrounds 3 brush-strokes 4 roses 5 leaves 6 daisies 7 borders 8 designs 9 castles 10 renovation and preparation 11 finishing touches 12 projects: - lettering - brushes and coasters - photograph albums and frames - sun-catcher - house name and number - buckby can - scales - flat irons - sweatshirts - stencilled metal box bibliography - places of interest - useful addresses - acknowledgements - index