1. Comprehensive Faux Finish Course - Five Day

2. Accelerated Faux Finish Course - Three Day

3. Popular Faux Finishes - Two Day

4. Private Instruction

FAUX FINISHING & OLD WORLD FINISHES
A few of the faux finish samples students produce are embossed leather, metallic wax, Tuscany textures, Corinthian leather,  and any technique that is currently popular.  Now, you can reproduce those distressed pieces of furniture that sell for so much in the shops and walls that resemble old European villas. The student will create suede effects, an old world plaster effect, and a faux limestone finish, providing a tactile quality to a creation that begs to be touched. Another old world creation includes a textured fresco wall with exposed bricks.

MARBLE AND STONE
We teach the latest and simplest faux finish techniques for creating stone and marble.  These techniques can be used on walls, furniture, columns, floors, and more. The art of painting grout around stone is taught. This is the section of the course where you will master the art of blending, veining, shading, and highlighting.

VENETIAN PLASTER
Veneciano is the most asked for Venetian plaster today.  The colors will be your choice with the help of the color theory course.  Being able to offer your clients Venetian plaster will offer an advantage over most faux finishers today.

COLOR MATCHING AND THEORY
A basic understanding of what colors to match with other colors and why will be explored in this course.  You will mix paints, waxes, pigments, tints, and many other mediums to better understand how each medium works on a particular surface.  The temperature of colors, the value of colors, and understanding how those two elements work in matching colors can help you confidently design with color.  This class will help you get the colors right the first time.

BUSINESS OF DECORATIVE PAINTING
The course will give you the tools and knowledge to get started as a decorative painter. The business side of faux finishing will be covered in detail, including filing taxes, samples of bids, a contract between the artist and the client that was drawn up by an attorney and a contract for any subcontractor’s of the artist that was drawn up by an attorney and a tax accountant, how to bid, and how to market your art with proven techniques.
Good and bad advertising will be discussed and advertising samples are available. Several ways to break down your art and price it in a manner that will keep you within the market and still make a profit will be covered in detail.