In our gallery you will find rare one-of-a-kind personalized gift items, decorative paintings on wood and glass.

From hand painted Christmas glass ornaments, personalized wedding or anniversary plates, decorative wooden plaques to decorative pine boxes, and more...

An always changing gallery with unique gift ideas, decorated in Old World painting styles.

Besides our individual paintings, we created a series of different Bauernmalerei painting styles.

Take a look at ...  www.painted-house.net/shop/hand_painted_gifts.htm

I like to introduce you to a talented artist from South Africa, Lesley Cornwell. She is a self-taught artist and loves Bauernmalerei. What I like on her painting is that you can see and feel how cheerful and energetic her painting is, it flows very wonderfully. Also I think it is a very good example that Bauernmalerei style has it’s flair from the simplicity, a stylized representation of natures flowers.

Lesley does custom paintings for commercial and residential clients.

If you like to contact the artist   lesleyccornwell@gmail.com

With the free Tree of Life painting I have included a short painting instruction and a drawing, you can easily adjust it to the size you need.

I hope you will enjoy painting it.

Click on link for the Tree of Life

This is a wonderful reference book, with very detailed step by step painting instruction using traditional Bauernmalerei motifs and also showing some new ideas and color combinations.

The book will guide your through various techniques,... wood graining, Kleister-painting, veneer-painting and antiquing. Also a number of projects with detailed, easy understandable painting instructions, helpful tips and patterns.

If you like to find out more about my new Bauernmalerei Workshop-Book please visit ....

www.painted-house.net/decorative_painting_books.htm

Honestly - it is a lot a work preparing an online workshop, but I love working on the computer, it also teaches you a few new things how it needs to be done. Guess that's where the left side of the brain is now working - hmm good balance for my painting.

For our first online class we start with a " Furniture-Workshop"

In the future we also will offer Bauernmalerei and Decorative Painting classes, inclusive video support.

For more information follow link to see what's included 

and what you need.

www.painted-house.net/online_classes.htm

Most of you probaply know much about Bauermalerei, but I thought it might be still interesting to know a little about it's history.

We have 3 sorts of Bauernmalerei producers.  

 1.) The main producers of Bauernmalerei Furniture were carpenters, turners and cabinetmakers; they not only made the furniture, but also painted it. Imitation wood graining, stenciling, to the high developed art of painting folk art ornaments, flowers, figures, country and religious scenes. Wood graining & marbleizing were predominant parts of decorated furniture. It became popular not only for humble farmhouses, but also for distinctive town homes.

2.) During the long cold winter hour farmers had enough time to do work at home, so the used those hours to be creative, woodcarving or making quilts, painting was very popular.

Of course those furniture were used as presents, a newborn child, a wedding coming up and so on.

3.) At last and not least, was and is still today the folk artist, he got commissioned to paint personalized furniture.

PS. ... and I am glad to see Bauernmalerei is still popular and we are taking time to pick up the brush and continue painting this wonderful art form.

Painted bedroom furniture in farmhouse

This and many other examples of original furniture paintings you will find in my

newest CD- Original & Traditional

free Bauernmalerei Pattern.

The original design comes from an old cabinet - about 1820, it shows a decorative border ( baroque rocaillen) and a brench with roses and small flowers.

I did add a short painting instruction, color picture and a drawing which you can resize to your needs. I hope you enjoy that pattern.

Click on link for your pattern..

www.painted-house.net/infos/Rocaillen%20with%20Rose-newsletter-2.pdf

In the last  few month i was working on severale pattern packets, I am very happy to have them finished. I hope you will enjoy those packets as much as I did painting the project and get them ready for the CD.

3 wonderful pattern packets which include pattern, a detailed step by step instruction with supporting pictures, list of materal and color palette. Pictures can be printed out for a hardcopy.

The project are; 

• wooden tray with trompe l'oeil painting,
• wooden box with ornamental painting and
• a bentwood box with wood graining and baroque floral painting.

For more information please visit our web-site ...

www.painted-house.net/d-pattern-packets.htm

The artist also offers decorative painting classes in her studio.

See her artwork at ...

perlejapan.web.fc2.com/