PAINTED CEILING by Graham Rust
Bulfinch Press (Little, Brown and Company) – June 2001
ISBN: 0821226894 – Coffee-table-size hardcover

Reviewed by Brenda Weeaks, MyShelf.com
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Graham Rust is a renowned artist known internationally for his murals and ceiling paintings.  This is my first chance to review his work in print, and I have to say, it was really, really hard to put the book down. I found myself reacting out loud to each piece of work as I turned pages, causing those around me to come see what it was.

What could cause such commotion you ask? It’s a coffee-size hardcover with not only pictures of a finished product on a ceiling or wall, but how-to and advice for each beautiful design.  Readers can expect a little of everything in Painted Ceiling. The book begins with different types of skies and goes into developing the theme, designs for smaller ceilings, and garden structures and talks about being practical, preparing the ceiling, and what to expect.

All the pictures are beautiful and each would be considered my favorite to try out, but if I had to pick one, it would be Eclipse Sky on page 27, showing the night sky with its stars and planets. The ideas and beauty of Rust’s work in boundless. Expect to be captured by the designs of skies, cherubs, life like birds, bats, butterflies, and marble statues with trellises and gardens that stretch to the heavens.

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