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The Faux Finish
School offers several decorative painting classes and workshops
catered to your specific needs. Below you will find a few of the
faux painting, mural, stenciling classes and workshops currently
scheduled. For a complete listing of our workshops....
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to view all of the current classes. All of our instructors are full-time, practicing finishers in the faux painting field.
This experience in unparalleled in any other faux finishing program.
This practical knowledge is transferred in the classroom in every workshop.
Our staff has collectively over 75 years experience decorative finishing!
Our beginner
five-day "Art and Business of Faux Finishing"
class is a hands-on program teaching the fascinating techniques
and business side of faux painting and decorative finishes. This
is an unintimidating, well structured class, designed for the
self-taught and beginner. This is our most popular faux finish
course . . . five days of sample-making, business, field-trips,
as well as the studio's 30 years of combined faux experience.
. . to put you in the business of Decorative Painting. The "Art
and Business of Faux Finishing" class
in progress can be visited to get a firsthand look at our
classroom structure and environment. Testimonies
of Faux Finish School students can also be found in this section.
Our
advanced class, "Designer
Wall Finishes WorkshopTM is designed with the professional faux finisher in mind. We deem a professional faux finisher as one that
is a practicing artisan, established, working in the field, and has a good clientele base. This workshop is not for
the beginner. This is a five-day intensive advanced workshop of multi-layered
designer wall faux finishes. Students will complete 20 - 25 different samples
to add to their portfolio.
 Reactive Series...The Next Level
"The Ultimate Portfolio Enhancer™"
Are you ready to take your portfolio to the next level? Ready to "blow away" other decorative artists and designers?
This is the workshop for you!
These finishes are unlike any ever seen in this industry...
The remarkable characteristics of the Faux Effects® RS™ Series of products render them one-of-a-kind. Their performance and quality will surpass all faux and decorative finishing products you have used in the past. Created by Raymond Sandor, President and CEO of Faux Effects International, Inc., as well as a leading artist, inventor and innovator in the field of faux and decorative finishing, these products are the culmination of 35 years experience in the industry. Taught by Master Decorative Artisan, Martin Alan Hirsch and Decorative Artist, Krista Vind.
To view, click: The Ultimate Portfolio Enhancer™
Our 3D Architectural Workshop Excursions into Architectural Elements - "Details in 3D"
is a workshop designed to inspire professionals to create finishes that are "off the wall" with 3-dimensional elements. Combining collage-style designs, students will embed, bury and, ‘sculpt’ embossed motifs that transform faux and decorative finishes to new heights (literally). Building on the strengths of traditional trowel methods, glaze techniques, and stenciling properties, this workshop adds some exciting new twists of expression with scrapbooking memorabilia, collectibles, notions, and trimmings. Add artful samples to your portfolios to upsell an accent wall that compliments gorgeous Venetian Plasters or Old World Faux Stones. Let the wall ‘be the art’ for added value in home or office décor. Finishes taught in this class will be great additions for exotic small as well as large space designs.
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Our stencil
class, "Artistic Explorations with Paint, Plaster and Pattern" is a comprehensive 3-day workshop that will allow
you to expand and compliment your portfolio of finishes. Students
will work with a wide variety of both traditional and innovative
techniques that will explore the full range of potential inherent
in this classic medium. All of the stenciled samples created in
class will incorporate finishes and textural mediums from an extensive
repertoire of products. This allows for an unlimited exploration
of custom and creative possibilities. Students will leave this
class with the knowledge and skills to replicate everything from
"quick" translucent effects and easy "trompe"
tricks, to highly detailed and defined illusions.
Our marbling and woodgraining class, European Master Marbling and Woodgraining is comprehensive painting class that will combine techniques of classical and modern marble and woodgrain painting.
Our Metallic foil workshop
Metallic Foils...Reflective Illusions is our newest workshop! Metallics are becoming more integral in the design and decorative painting fields. These metallic foils are easy to apply and offer extremely high production rates versus traditional gold leafing techniques. The foils will not tarnish, do not need to be sealed, and are virtually indestructible. They can be installed with none of the mess of traditional leafing. You will learn the use of these foils in wall finishes where the foil is applied first, in the middle, and last in the decorative painting process. You will also see the benefits of using the foils on detailed moldings, wood trim, furniture, and in murals. Metallic paint cannot offer the shine of these foils, and the cost is very low compared to metallic paint or leafing products. This is a three day workshop with ten completed, layered metallic foil finishes. The only prerequisite is that you are a current, practicing faux finisher in the field.
Our Contemporary - Urban Wall Finishes class
Contemporary Flair.....Urban Finishes and Beyond
The newest direction in architecture and design....
Urban Contemporary.
Envision...downtown renovation, industrial loft, sleek and modern design.
Elegance with a high tech twist.
At Decorative Finishes Studio we are in touch with industry trends and have created this class to provide students with the tools and finishes to satisfy those with a taste for something new, fresh, and modern.
From metropolitan chic to modern metallic, this class explores unusual ways to use products you know and love as well as exploring several of Faux Effects newest materials including the Stucco Lux ® metallic plasters and Faux Metals ®
These unique decorative treatments are truly art for walls often selling as frameable art pieces .
Created in a market where urban contemporary reigns, these are some of Decorative Finishes Studio's instructor Krista Vind's personal favorite finishes and are proven sellers!
If you are looking to stretch your creative boundaries, think outside the box, and truly explore the art in decorative painting, this class is for you.
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