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Peacock Feathers

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I have to say a BIG Thank You to my client – if it wasn’t for her idea, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to paint this incredible project.  Recently, Ruth Masters was referred to me for a project that she had been wanting to do for many years – she just hadn’t figured out exactly what she wanted in this space.  One day, surfing on the web – she ran across a project that was featured with a painting of Peacock feathers on the ceiling.  Ruth knew at that moment it was exactly what she wanted – now to find the artist to execute the idea.

I met with Ruth and she provided me with several pictures from the web site – we talked about colors for the feathers and then it was up to me to see if it was a possible project.  The area she wanted them painted in was a very high octagon sky light – approximately 22′ to the top!

I called a fellow artist friend of mine, Penny Ray to assist with this project – she meet me at the clients house to see if we could get a scaffold rig into her kitchen, over the island and up high enough to accomplish the work…….with very careful measuring – we decided we could do it!

Even though we did all that careful measuring – the day we installed the scaffold rig – we discovered we were off just a little……..but, we made it work!  Our first day was installing the rig and then using an overhead projector to project the images that had been drawn onto the walls………..now this was an area that started at 10′ and went up another 12′ or so……..it took the entire day to transfer all the drawings.  We carefully placed each peacock feather to create a wonderful composition in the octagon area.

Day two and three was a lot of painting and moving the levels of the scaffold rig to accomplish the many heights we had to work at.  Day four – we needed to completely remove one of the levels of the scaffold rig and try to finish all the painting.  Penny and I are a pretty good team – only one cut finger, a few bruises and sore muscles – we accomplished our deadline.  The entire project took four days including installing and tear-down of the scaffold rig……..we painted a lot of hours each day!  Most of the painting was accomplished with Americana Acrylic paints – regular and metallics – I also used Faux Effects newest metallics – SuperHide Copper (love this product).

Many thanks again to Ruth – thanks for providing me with such a fun project!!!  Looking forward to the next one…….I think I will be painting Parrots and Palm Trees!!!

 

 

 

Royal Flush

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Royal Flush Portable Restrooms

This has been one of my most unusual projects that I have worked on over the past 20 years.  Royal Flush is a company that provides “upscale” portable bathrooms (not your usual out-houses) and the owner decided to go the extra step and allow me to create some beautiful walls (under the direction of the Designer – Thanks Kim).  This is a very nice looking trailer that houses a men’s, women’s and handicapped restrooms. In my opinion, these have been needed for a long time – I just hate going to an event and all they provide are those horrible construction site outhouses. 

Womens restroom in progress

The designer and I went to work on several ideas for the bathrooms – she decided that the Metallic finishes I created would work out very well.  They had a “faux” tin ceiling installed with crown molding – so, I was hired to create a finish on all the walls and moldings (crown and base).

womens restroom
 
Due to the materials that were used to create these rooms – there was a lot of preparation in making sure that my products would stick!  I spent a full day just prepping the surface – sanding and sanding and sanding.  I wasn’t going to go through all this work if it was going to adhere properly.  I created a multi-layered, multi-material finish in the women’s bathroom working with Venetian Gem Bellissimo, LusterStone and Palette Deco – what a great metallic finish!  Then, both the crown and base moldings were painted Black and dry brushed with Dutch Metals – Bronze.  On to the men’s room – this room was created with Metallic waxes – layer and layer – beautiful finish – with Black moldings highlighted in Copper/Bronze Dutch metals. 

Great project – owner delivered the trailer to my studio (we used a few more parking stalls than usual) and it was very convenient to walk out my studio and have my project parked right there.  So, the next event that you attend – hope that you will find a Royal Flush portable bathroom to use.

I’ve been working on this project for the past two weeks and just about have it completed – the women’s restroom is a multi-layered metallic finish using Venetian plaster, LusterStone and Palette Deco – moldings were painted Black Set-Coat and then dry brushed with Dutch Metal Copper.