Faux Painting: Totally Plastered

Faux Painting: Totally Plastered

I love getting Blitzed - Juice Up - and Totally Plastered---- on Venetian Plaster that is!

Just to clarify, Venetian plaster is general term and the looks range from highly polished and reflective to jagged and rugged. True, a plaster can take some time, but the results are so worth it. I’m thrilled that today there is such a wide range of plasters available for artists to create faux finishes. I spend time creating samples for my clients and most weekends can be found “concocting” some new-fangled idea that has popped into my head. More than once I have heard a product rep ask, “You want to do what”?

It’s always super exciting when a client is ready to plunge into uncharted territory of a new concept for plaster.  The projects below were created for some delightful fun clients and had my artist heart doing hand springs of joy

Walking into the Art:

A hallway formally just used as a passage from garage to main living area is now an exciting transition. The idea sprung from the home-owners artwork. Several shades of plaster were troweled, sanded, tinted, pounded, and brushed to recreate the background full scale onto the hallway walls. Now it feels as if you’ve walked directly into the painting.

Everything old is new:

You may remember this entry from the Urban Decay collection http://swanstudiosinc.blogspot.com/2016/02/faux-painting-urban-decay-new-shabby.html  Luster Stone was used to help create the look of crumbling walls with a sleek tarnished silver reveal:

Sculpting went grand scale on this dining room wall when the home-owner’s art sculpture was re-created into a 14 ft. x 10 ft. version:

Of course, we always want to pay homage to the past. In this case, extreme past as in the fossil age:

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Anniversary week

The Swan Studios Art Blog will return next Sunday.

My husband and I are off celebrating our anniversary !!!!!!!

Faux Painting- The Cabinet Meeting

Faux Painting: The Cabinet Meeting

This is one Cabinet Meeting I was happy to attend. Coming from a corporate back ground, I have had my fill of meeting upon meeting about meetings for meetings. I’m usually notoriously known to despise meetings, or what I refer to as “an opportunity to count the ceiling tiles”. I’m not the only one to feel that way; to quote former;

   U.S. President Ronald Reagan …“I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.”

But as I said, this is a cabinet meeting I was pleased to be a part of… that of a master bath cabinet make-over. Actually the whole room was done over. The space was small and dark. The actual floor space couldn’t be changed, but making the correct choices for the room make it seems larger and certainly brighter.  We selected new Mont Blanc granite for the counter top, a stunning hammered metal sink, sparkling bath room lights, new soft neutral wall color, and Mustang Builders http://mustangbuilderscorp.com/ completely changed the shower by removing a wall and enclosing the side with clear glass. For the faux finish I changed plain cream painted cabinets into an aged crackle effect in grays and umbers that are more suited to the home owners taste. A larger mirror was installed, Mustang Builders  built a custom frame, and I faux painted the frame to match the new cabinet finish.

The Gorgeous New Master Bath:

Close-ups of the Faux Finishes: 

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Mural Painting: It's Time to Hit The BEACH !!!!

Mural Painting: Time to Hit the Beach

Visiting the white sand dunes of the Pensacola Beaches is one of my favorite childhood memories. The sunlight sparkling like diamonds on the water, waves crashing, the smell of tanning lotion, and of course miles and miles of undulating sugar sand. Now days the beaches for me are a little further south here in Florida. Those of us who live here, feel blessed to live in paradise. The beach is happy, relaxing, and soul reviving. Its no wonder that beach scenes are highly requested as custom murals. Recently I was commissioned to pint a 3D beach scene. Hope you love it as much as I do ( and the home owner does too ! )

Close -up views:

Wood dowels and hemp twine are placed into the painting, then painted on to create the fence:

Dried reeds are used in the same manner in grass:

Once complete, the mural is given a matte clear coat for protection and to seal in the placed objects:

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Special Note: Thank you to my wonderful assistant Jenna for putting up with my crazy hours and all that hot glue!

2001: my daughter Kaley-Ann, cousin Katie, my son Jacob, and cousin Ophelia enjoying Pensacola Beach:

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Table of Contents: Custom Painted Murals and Faux Finishes on Tables

Table of Contents: Custom Painted Murals and Faux Finishes on Tables

Be they BIG or SMALL tables play a major role in our lives. Most of our memories have a table in them. Did you know that? Think about it for a second…. Home memories: What reminds you of home? Mom’s home cooked meals- served on a table. Family decisions and discussions- sitting around a table. Where do your keys go when you enter your house? –on an entry table. When you watch T.V. where do your drinks and popcorn go? -on an end table. (I would have said “where does the remote go”, but it’s usually lost in some vortex) Having guest over for tea or coffee, where do the cups go? –on a coffee table. Where do you hold a board meeting? -around a conference table. Having dinner out with friends at a restaurant, where do you sit? -at a table (OK, sometimes up at the bar, but you get the idea) Tables are important. So make sure they are spectacular!  If you have a favorite table but it’s not fitting in with your latest decor- have it faux painted and make it the center piece of attention.

A coffee table, sofa table, and end tables get a face lift from a formerly whitewashed finish to a faux wood grain Golden Oak to match home’s kitchen cabinets and entertainment center:

A plain cream colored bisque palm tree base now boasts full tropical color:

Animal print painted in metallic turn this dining table into a much needed large desk:

An occasional table given a crackle faux finish and hand-painted tropical palm

A colorful “bubbly” motif for outdoor restaurant tables:

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