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COLOR CLASS |
COLOR
- The success of the job.
Can you
give your client the precise color match in paint and plaster that they
request?
Can you
match colors so precisely as to make a switch-plate
disappear? Photo Left - Buon Fresco's 'Invisible
Switch Plate' Artistry.
Can you give the architect the
exact color he specs in Venetian Plaster.. the
designer the exact paint color of her silk swatch?
Can you play
beautiful 'chords'
with Color Harmonies?
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"I'm seeing the
WHOLE world differently!
Now I can't wait to go home and decorate my London house'."
Lazarus Xavier C. London, UK
"Knowlege is wealth! I leave here a
very wealthy man. These classes were worth far more than I paid
for them. Not a day went by when I wasn't learning amazing new
things. Trying to learn on my own was like trying to reinvent the
wheel. It was 40 years of repeating the same work, and never
rising to a new level.
For anyone in this business, this IS
the place to learn!" Lloyd Cutting, Vancouver British Columbia |
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 The Color Intensive
Class focuses on the following critical lessons:
*Color Chords/ Harmonies
(called also color schemes)
*Precise Color Mixing.
These are CRITICAL professional skills. Color, like music,
cannot be artifice.
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A decorative
artist cannot work 'high end' - limited by a fan deck palette or without the ability to
be able to mix color exactly.
In Art and Design Color is your sheet music.
Can you read it?
YES! Like Music and Math, COLOR
formulation can
be learned.
Don't run your business any longer without
complete color
confidence!
Visit the
Color Page to learn more.
(Photo Above) Switch Plate Artistry by Academy Color Class Grad - Tom
Henman
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The
Beauty of Gold. Used
judiciously, artistically; there is just nothing like Gold.
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If you are a Decorative
Artist, but you're still not offering GOLD,
you are missing out on an
enormous income opportunity and a highly successful portfolio addition.
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Tip Gilding |
Flash, Ribbon & Tip Gilding |
Flat Gilding |
Ornate Gilding |
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Buon Fresco applies
Gold in 90% of the residences we work in - by showing how Gold
transforms a space.
Increase your business. Add Gold to your professional portfolio.
Four of the Five Gilding techniques taught in the class are shown above.
Tip Gilding for Molding designs, Flash & Ribbon Gilding, Flat Gilding
for murals & Ceilings, & Ornate Gilding.
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"I'm going home
and throwing away all 12 boards from the classes I took in
England. I'm only going to show the ACADEMY samples to my
clients'."
Lazarus Xavier C. London, UK
VPI is the Prerequisite of all other
VP courses. It forms the foundation of instruction for the
advanced classes of VPII, VPIII, VPIV and VPV
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By far our most
popular class, VPI lays the ground work to be able to do a natural
undulating Venetian Plaster, as smooth as a mirror - right out of the
gate, or with any number of stunning enhancements over the top.
The
technique is not easy to learn but the student receives hands on
instruction and guidance with opportunities later to work with Buon
Fresco on job sites to further perfect their skills. The finish is a
client pleaser and a job winner!
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In
VP- I you will learn to create a Damask Striped Venetian Plaster as
in this Dining Room
(above) that we did for
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 VENETIAN PLASTER
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II STENCILING
in Italian Plasters |
VPI is
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Stenciling in
Italian Plasters has gained Buon Fresco and our graduates more prizes
and more press and
more business, than anything else in our collective portfolios. (see
the grad brag page for additional proof) |
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'The
really amazing thing in this Venetian Plaster Damask class was how very unique and
distinct each student's boards were.
We all successfully created sophisticated, elegant sample boards.' Teri Crosby, Richland, WA
'I've never seen anything like that
before!'
Said by Client of Graduate seeing his Stencil Samples
Zdeneck Ullman, NYC
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VENETIAN
PLASTER VP-III
AS MARBLE
for COLUMNS
& WALLS
"Your
Marbling technique [VP-III] is AMAZING!,
I've been marbling for 20 years but have never seen anything like this, and it's SO
fast and easy!" Gelu Pisalu, NJ 12/13
grad
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Prerequisite of VPI |
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Student Marbling Exercises from VP-III
This 'How-to-Marble' in
Venetian Plaster class covers every category of creating
realistic marble. Students
learn coloring, veining and drift systems to affect perfectly natural looking
faux marble. |
Shown Above - Students working
on Marbling in Venetian Plaster.
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Left: Examples
boards of Venetian Plaster as Marble. Students will learn how to imbed a
Marble face in their already mirror smooth Italian Plaster surface.
Techniques are given for application on a wall or on round columns.
Different Marbles are taught to communicate all the various techniques required for
just about ANY Marble type. More elaborate marbles are covered in the
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Theresa Blosser,
Delaware |
Nikki Flam Arlington VA |
Dr.
Jay Starling, VA |
Iurii Kravchiki, Canada |
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Advanced
Venetian Plaster..
There's nothing quite like it..
besides real marble. :>) |
Prerequisite of VPI
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ADVANCED MARBLING IN VENETIAN PLASTER
The Venetian Plaster IV
Advanced Class on Marbling in Venetian Plaster has been
called 'The Rolls Royce
of Faux Marble. The results are cold to the touch,
mirror smooth and exquisitely detailed to achieve the Marble
of your choosing. These Exotic Marbling
techniques finish a
surface with nuance so realistic that it amazes the
people in every sphere of design. Note: The examples shown
here are based on techniques taught in VP-IV though they are
by no means the limit to what may be achieved in Marbling
once the techniques are fully grasped.
Technique is or Flat or
gently sloped Surfaces
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Happy Graduates with their boards ready
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The
VP-V -
BACKSPLASH &
TILE
CLASS
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Add a whole new elegant element to your portfolio of
offerings to architects, designers and custom home
builders, effortlessly. You'll not only be adding an
entire new portfolio item, you're adding a new
member to your professional team. Now in
addition to architects, designers, custom home
builders, you can form an alliance with Kitchen
Designer Stores. This finish is an ideal
compliment to any new kitchen, especially when the
client is not prepared for the higher prices of
marble and ceramic backsplashes, in that it offers a
waterproof
and very real looking tile imitation. (VPI
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Waterproof - Beautiful
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Mirror-like
Reflective Quality in any color of the Rainbow. Since Venetian Plaster Tile is easy to apply, and
less costly than Ceramic Tile, the finish
will sell itself to budget minded clients.
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MARKETING & BUSINESS
Get your business
out front!
We
just took some of our own advice as given in this class and added
McInturff Architects & Alliance Builders to our list of professional
teams.
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MARKETING &
BUSINESS
Tentatively scheduled for February 2016
Business Acumen. Don't leave the studio without it.
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MARKET FOR SUCCESS
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Learn to develop teams with architects
and designers.
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Learn to market on the web and other places.
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Learn why photography is your best friend.
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Learn how to write proposals - what to
include - what not to include!
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Learn how to protect yourself from the
untoward clients.
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Learn how to make your paperwork save your
bank account!
- Make your Business ALL that it can be.
Even in this economy.
- No materials costs & no prerequisites
- To learn more Go to the
M&B page
for class details.
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What
is the difference between Decorative Painting and Faux Finishing?
Decorative Paint work is the application of a paint or glaze in a decorative
fashion. Faux Finishing is the application of paint, glaze plaster or any such
element to
specifically simulate a natural material or element of some sort, such as
Marble, Fabric, Stone, Wood, Wallpaper and so on.
The Faux Finishing I Intensive
course contains these 4 finishes shown above from Buon Fresco Studio Photos.
Photos From Left to Right display;
- Scumble Glazing -
Can be made to simulate 'Leather' or be left as a decorative wall
finish.
- Strie - Simulates Fabric
- Frottage -
Simulates Limestone and/or Marble
- Damask Stripes
(2 photos far right) - Simulates Wallpaper
For more information and photos please visit - The Painted Gallery
and the
Decorative Painting Class pages.
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MARMORINO VENETIAN PLASTER
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The Academy's newest class offering
is based on latent good success with our newest materials,
Marmorino and Concrete Plasters made by Italian Masters in Italy.
Our new 'Decor Line' of Lime based
plasters is already available, and we ALREADY won 2 contracts since
launching the line 2 months ago. The first - seen here (above) is
a rendition of realistic Limestone Blocks created with natural looking
crevices and grout lines, from layers of Marmorino Plaster. The
client got a Limestone Lobby for his building in just 7 days and at a
fraction of the cost of real stone.
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Limestone
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2 - COLOR
Concrete |
Imagine an Italian Plaster finish
that may be achieved in just one coat? That's Lime Concrete!
Or apply it in just 3 Coats to create realistic Limestone Blocks...
...In the words of one designer, 'THAT'S a
Manhattan Finish!'
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