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2012 Faux Painting Workshop Schedule

Learn the art of professional faux painting techniques and decorative finishing by
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The Faux Finish School


Faux Painting Classes
• Beginner Workshops -Faux Painting

• Advanced Workshops - Faux Painting

• Visit a Faux Finishing Class in Progress

• Students of The Faux Finish School Testimonials

• Featured Faux Finish School Students and their works

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Faux Painting Class

Visit a Faux Painting Class in Progress
The Faux Finish School classroom is well lit with natural light as well as full spectrum overhead lighting. Each student has their own work area, easel, and faux finishing supplies to help assist in achieving the finest results. Working decorative painting wall finishes upright, gives the student more of the feel of "working a wall when applying faux painting techniques".
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Student Testimonials
See what  former students have to say about The Faux Finish School, faux finishing curriculum, and director, Martin Alan Hirsch.
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Featured Students of the Faux Finish School and their works

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Featured Faux Finish School graduates speak candidly about their Faux Finish School experiences, their businesses, and their faux painting techniques.
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2012 Faux Painting Workshops


The Polished Portfolio
Art and Business of Faux Finishing for the 21st Century

Today’s the time to make a positive commitment and investment in building a lucrative design and faux finishing career.
This is a five day intensive decorative painting workshop teaching not only faux painting techniques, but also the business aspects of this lucrative career. This class is designed for those starting this business as well as self-taught and seasoned finishers!
25 of the most incredible finishes you have seen!
This is our most popular workshop giving students the motivation and business tactics to become successful faux painters!
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 The Art of Designer Cabinetry and Furniture Finishing
"A Faux Finish School EXCLUSIVE 5 Day Workshop!"

Cabinet refinishing is one of the most requested finishes in today’s market and a very lucrative addition to your portfolio.
Create incredible hand-painted, custom finished furniture and cabinetry finishes that will delight your customers.
Take your clients old and boring cabinets and transform them into masterpieces enhancing their home and the value of their property.

Join The Faux Finish School's instructor Jennifer Ferguson for a fresh five-day workshop utilizing the Faux Effects® Gold Label & Silver Label products:
This workshop will provide you with the skills and knowledge to refinish any wood surface, whether old or new, cabinetry or furniture.
The decorative painting techniques instructed will enhance your portfolio and make you $1000’s refinishing cabinetry and furniture. Take your clients old and boring cabinets and transform them into masterpieces enhancing their home and the value of their property.Kitchen cabinets, bathroom cabinets, laundry rooms, hallway cabinets and not to mention all the furniture that you can update and give new life to!
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 Exquisite Venetian Plaster & Beyond"
Stucolux..The next level...
"A Faux Finish School EXCLUSIVE 3 Day Workshop!"

Venetian plasters are an important component in any great decorative artist’s portfolio of finishes. One of the most versatile and exquisite Venetian plasters is Faux Effects® StucoLux. This mineral-based plaster can be used on walls, ceilings, columns, cabinetry, furniture and as a fine art medium. Imagine a material that glides across virtually any substrate with dramatic high gloss effects! StucoLux, a light weight, buttery smooth, fast-drying, high sheen, mineral-based plaster. StucoLux is a "thing of beauty" when used properly and can be combined with other Faux Effects® products when you want to create that unique, one-of-a-kind project.
Martin Alan Hirsch continues his quest to contract with the best instructors to guest teach at The Faux Finish School. He is excited to have Rik Lazenby join the list of such talents. Martin is thrilled to bring Rik Lazenby to The Faux Finish School to teach this "exclusive" workshop!
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 Surface Savvy...Alchemy of Design
"A multiple surfaces workshop"

Interested in expanding the scope of your Decorative painting business?
Exploring ways to elevate your professional reputation and increase your profitability?
Eager to refresh your portfolio with simply stunning, creative and artistic tricks?
Then you have the desire to become SURFACE SAVVY!
Join The Faux Finish School's instructors Karen Kratz-Miller and Liz Herrmann for a fresh three-day workshop featuring: The NEW revolutionary Faux Effects® Gold Label Alchemy products:
Luna™, SharkSkin™, Super Hide Metallics™, Stone Décor™, Rock-Kote™, Rock-Kote Crème™ (trowelable!); and Fabric Effects™ paint.
During this extensive workshop, you will explore innovative wall and ceiling techniques, as well as alternative surface finishes which can be executed on counter tops, floors, trim, textiles, table tops and accent pieces.
Discover techniques to coordinate designs and color palettes, to compliment multiple areas in a home. Impress your clients and designers with these fabulous samples, while offering them options to resurface rather than replace.
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Fauxnominal Canvas Creations
"A Faux Finish School Exclusive Workshop".......

Faux finished canvas....For the artistic finisher who wants to broaden their abilities and tap into something inviting and profitable.... Five days of technique, application, theory, rendering and study...In this workshop, we will push to expand your passion for creation and design by working on one-of-a-kind contemporary art pieces and embellishments with unique finishes and applications... 20 pieces....in five days... You will learn to achieve the exact looks and properties needed to complement any interior. These canvases encompass the absolute beauty of the materials and they can be tweeked to exactly what many new construction, residential as well as commercial designers clients can't pass up for that room that didn't get a finish. .
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Appetite for Design
"Gourmet Finishes for Walls and More".......

Hungry for fresh inspiration?
Eager to tempt clients and designers with a tasty menu of marketable marvelous morsels?
Ready to serve palatable finishes to satisfy finicky palettes and everyone from commoner to connoisseur?
Our instructors' creative juices will really get you cooking, while their product knowledge and active field experience will give you the mad-scientist confidence to mix colors and materials to satisfy every palette.
In this 3 day workshop, students will whip up 12 new delicious dishes ranging from tempting traditions with a twist to seductive sophistications with shimmer and spiceall made with the finest ingredients, including old staples like Aquastone, Palette Deco and Lusterstone, in combination with the latest products from the RS line and Stucco Lux.
You'll leave our kitchen with 12 piping hot treats, a step-by-step cookbook of 24 recipes detailing unique interpretations of each creation, and tips to use up leftovers and improvise to suit every taste and budget.

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