So this is what i've been doing at work for the last Hurah. I got a 7' by 20' area to 'do that voodoo you do so well'. i got this "gift" because the other guys at my store dont really like selling, just showing and telling. so they used my tallents and there going to reap the rewards. ah well, i'm proud of it and seeing as this is what i plan on doing in the future as a profetion, i'd like to think these are good peices. (click on them to see more detail)

this is my 'frotage'. esentially its doing the standard off technique (painting the wall like reagular, mixing a glaze and paint to the right consistancy, applying theglaze over the dried paint, and then using whatever applicator you want to take off the glaze), making it look like a wall paper patteren i selected. i was a little off on the color selection, but the technique was dead on if i do say so myself. this one is fun because it uses the bags you think your going to use that you end up accumulating 50 bajillion of from walmart or sentry to take off the glaze.

I had fun with more OFF tecniques, seeing as their not as well known but i think easier to do if you have a helping hand. not only that but they tend to use more product. hey, i'm in sales, so sue me. But i really like these color combinations. i kind of cheated and took a booklet of color combinations from work and used them, because i am sure that the guy would rater have them in one central book to they dont have to go looking arround every wich way or guess what colors they are. all four of thse are off techniques, 2 using a natural sea sponge, and the other two using lint free rags. i love doing off techniques, they get messy and you have to be random and spontanious. the pure esence of Faux painting.

These are my attempts at Colorwashing, the most coveted, and unexplainable facits of Faux Painting. not really, they just have another layer or 18 depending on how deep you want it to look, The dark one (wich i have to say is my favorite, and if the 'viva la Kivi' wasnt my desktop right now, the cropped picture would be), is a combination of a light and dark brown with deep purple (not the band... i know you were thinking that tony, you cant lie to your big poppa) accents blended with a lambs wool pad. The blue one is the same technique, with yellow accents but blended with a brush instead, it gives more of a sky/cloud look.

Now, onto my the techniques i'm most proud of. The fisrt is Wood graining, i went a tad bit OCD on this one but it turned out awesome. not to give away all my secrets, but the finishing touches involved a toothbrush, a paint stick, and a rubber eracer... NO JOKE!.

The next experiment, wich i got the most compliments on by people who do this as a profession, is the marbling, wich i did a true frotage with the darker green over the lighter green over an off white, added the veining with an artistic feather (yes, there is a difference), and some taupe accents. it would have looked better if the damn drywallers could have done a better job, but ah well, such is life.

But thats what i do, and what i've done. I also have some pics up on another post , so there. you know what i do. now you should all get rich and sucsessfull, and buy big houses and pay me to paint them for you. hehe.

love yall.