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Are you tired of your furniture or cabinets in your home and want them updated or have it customized with a whole new look? Try A Custom Furniture Finish with Faux Finishes! You can customize the whole furniture piece or just the table top! You can also change the look of your walls with faux finishes, either in a whole room or just accent walls or ceilings to dramatically change the appearance of your room with an Artistic Flair!
Nothing in nature is a solid color or has a repeated design, so why do we paint our walls with a solid colors or hang wallpaper? Faux Finishing is not what you think of as being limited to just sponging and ragging, it has a multitude of layers, colors, metallics and textures created by the Faux Artist to customize it to your home making it unique. The possibilities are endless!
There are many benefits of having Faux Finishes in your home: Faux Finishes add color and movement unlike regular paint, won't trap moisture and mold like wallpaper does. Faux Finishes are a seamless application also unlike wallpaper. If you have Venetian plaster or Old World Textures on your walls, most are made with Marble dust and that adds extra insulation and protects your walls from dust mites. I am sure that you didn't realize that did you?
Hi, My name is Dee Johnson, I've been working in the Decorative painting industry for over twenty years. After Painting in Atlanta and the surrounding area , I decided to move to the Tampa Bay area to be closer to my family.
I have attended various art schools/seminars/workshops keeping up with the current industry trends and techniques.
I love turning your home's walls/ceiling/ furniture into works of art. Adding color, dimension, beauty, and your personal touch to your home, making your home unique, customized, and setting your home apart from your neighbors homes. Not only that you deserve a place to get away from all of the stress in this world..why not make your home and oasis with beautiful wall finishes and color!
Let's work together to make your dreams your new reality! I answer all calls myself 9am-8pm 7 days 727-483-2340 or email me at fauxfinishme@gmail.com
Looking forward to Beautifying your Home,
Dee Johnson
Dee Johnson Finishes
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Below is a list of techniques, types and motifs used in faux painting with short descriptions of each.
Antiquing or Ageing: A technique intended to give the appearance of age or wear.
Borders: Stenciled and hand painted borders are used to soften the edges of rooms and ceiling lines and add interest to the space.
Brocade stencil finish: A highly decorative stencil is applied in flat sheen paint over a broken color finish in a satin sheen. The stencil is repeated in a pattern, giving the walls the appearance of "brocade" fabric.
Canopy or tented ceiling: A trompe l'oeil painting on ceilings depicting the inside of a canopy or striped tent.
Children's Murals: Baby nurseries and children's rooms are perfect places to apply murals, either on the walls, ceilings or floors. Themes can vary from a circus tent, African savannah, and the stands of Fenway Park to a fantasy mural with castles and fairies.
Color Wash /Old World: This finish creates the illusion of an old Tuscan plaster effect. By applying multiple layers we can create depth and movement and a hint of drama.
Combing: A technique of pulling a toothed "comb" through wet paint. The comb can be made of a material such as: rubber, metal, leather, plastic or cardboard.
Crackle: A finish in which cracking is intentionally produced, allowing the undercoat to show through the cracks. A rapid drying of topcoat over slow drying undercoat produces this interesting technique.
Cross-hatch or Basket Weave finish: A technique of dragging a toothed "comb" through wet paint in both vertical and horizontal directions to achieve a "basket weave" appearance.
Design: A sketch drawn to scale on grid paper, representing the final layout of mural composition.
Distressing: Also a term used to describe a decorative paint finish that gives the appearance of age and wear.
Faux Finishes: French word meaning "fake or false". Technically, wood-graining, marbleizing, or other painted finishes that are replicating a natural material are faux finishes. However, this term has become an umbrella name to describe all painted decorative finishes.
Faux Wood Grain: creating the illusion of wood using tools and paint.
Fresco: An ancient mural technique using wet pigments as paint on un-cured plaster. Faux fresco is a mural technique that gives the appearance of an aged and weathered fresco using contemporary paint products.
Frottage: (in decorative painting) This comes from the French word meaning "to rub". The decorative paint term denotes a technique of applying a wet glaze, then rubbing it with fabric, paper or other materials, to create a texture.
Garland border: A traditional painted border that depicts various leaves, fruits and flowers in a swag design.
Gilding: The application of metal in any form (gold or other metallic leaf, metallic foil, metallic paint, metallic powder, etc.).
Glazing: Process of applying a tinted, but transparent paint over a base coat to create a softly modulated, watercolor effect. The darkness of the basecoat and the number of layers of glaze applied can create a rich saturated appearance and works well in dark reds, blues and greens.
Grisaille: Architectural trompe l'oeil painting done in monochromatic colors suggesting solid form, perspective or decorative plasters motifs.
Harlequin diamonds: Harlequin diamonds are painted in a pattern in either subtly contrasting colors or sheens and can also be applied in a subtractive paint finish, creating a classic and elegant appearance.
Landscape murals: A mural that depicts the outside environment including the sky, the foreground and distant horizon line between the land or sea and sky.
Marbleizing: A faux finish that creates the illusion of marble.
Metallic finishes: Decorative finishes that use metallic paint in various techniques over other painted finishes. Golds, silvers and bronzes are used over different colored base coats to achieve the appearance of antique gold, burnished bronze or shimmering silver.
Murals: A mural is defined as a painted picture on a wall or ceiling.
On-Location Sample: A sample of the finish intended for the walls or ceiling is painted on a section of the wall in the room so that client can approve the finish before the entire room is treated. Better accuracy in color selection and texture is achieved when sample is done on the same walls and over the same base coat that the rest of the finish will be applied onto.
Opaque paint layers: Any paint finish layer that is made from a pastel base paint with titanium pigment will soften and possibly lighten the affect of the decorative paint finish. Opaque paint finish layers allow the faux finisher to correct and soften the previous layers.
Opentime: This is a faux finish term used to describe the time available to work a technique before the paint dries. Opentime™ is also a product used as an additive to any water-base paint to lengthen the drying time. This product is manufactured by Kingfisher Decorative Paints and can be ordered through this web site.
Paint sheen: All house paints and glazing liquids have different sheens and can affect the success of certain decorative paint techniques. They will also affect the final look and appearance of the room. Paint sheens vary from flat (a non reflective, dull finish) to high gloss.
Patina: A thin greenish layer that forms on copper or copper alloys, such as bronze, as a result of long exposure to the elements and often valued aesthetically for its color. It gives a surface appearance of something grown beautiful with age or use.
Pigments: Material mixed into paint bases to create paint colors.
Rag Roll: A decorative paint technique that involves applying or subtracting color by "rolling" a damp crumpled rag over the wall surface.
Ragging: A decorative paint finish that is either applied or subtracted with a crumpled damp rag.
Reference material: Pictures from magazines, books, Internet or personal photos that the artist uses as a guide in color selection, techniques, or mural painting.
Sample: The finish that is to be painted on the walls or ceiling is painted on a section of wall or on a board to show the client what the final outcome of finish will be.
Scene Painting: Traditional techniques used in theatrical set design production, involving many of the same skills utilized in mural painting and faux finishes.
Sketch: Preliminary drawing of proposed mural painting.
Skyscape murals: A mural that depicts mainly a sky.
Sponging: A broken color effect produced by either applying color or removing color by pouncing with a natural sponge while paint is still wet.
Stencil: A tool used to apply a repeated image or pattern by dabbing paint on a commercial sponge or stippling brush over the negative space cut out of a sheet of mylar or stiff oak tag.
Stipple: A decorative treatment also known as"Pouncing". A glaze or paint is applied to the surface and while it is wet, a stippler is pounced onto the surface causing the glaze to disperse into tiny dots. Stippling gives a very even film of glaze while removing brush strokes in a wet glaze.
Stone block: This is a trompe l'oeil technique giving the painted surface the appearance of a stone block wall.
Strie: A technique used for achieving a subtle mix of fine stripes (or brush strokes) by pulling a dry, stiff bristled brush or rubber comb through wet paint.
Stripes: Stripes are applied over a basecoat or faux finished surface in a width suited to the scale of the room. Stripes can be applied with a subtractive technique and in a subtly contrasting sheen creating a soft and rich effect.
Subtractive technique: Any paint technique that is first applied and then "subtracted" with a sea sponge, rag, plastic bag, or other tool, creating a subtly textured effect.
Texture: Paint finishes create various degrees of 2-dimensional texture by adding or subtracting gently contrasting color paint in the techniques described above. 2-dimensional texture adds warmth, character, and depth to an interior.
Transparent paint layers: Any paint finish layer that is made from a neutral base or glazing liquid will be semi-transparent and will darken the finish with each additional layer. The basecoat color will be tinted by the transparent paint or glazing liquid.
Trompe l'oeil: French expression meaning, "To deceive the eye". A painting technique in which an illusion of depth and reality is created by emphasizing highlights and shadows. In art, trompe l'oeil is defined as a 'still life deception', a painting able to make the viewer believe that an object actually exists in 3D space, in relief. It also means illusion, a deceptive appearance, eyewash or camouflage, in short 'Fool the eye'!
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|   Dee Johnson/Faux Finish Artistfauxfinishme@gmail.com727-483-2340Custom Wall Finishes including: Color Washes, Venetian Plasters, Old World Textures, Metallic Finishes, Gold Leafing, Concrete Finishes, Antiquing and many more...
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| Rate: $0.01Rate Details: CostClients are often surprised at the cost of faux finishing. Here's how we explain it to our clients. When you have a room painted, the painter used "production" tools like rollers or a spray rig, and covers a large area quickly (usually an average of 300 square feet per hour). The painter can usually get by with one coat of paint. If he or she is going over a light color with a dark one (white to dark blue, for instance), or a dark color with a light one (i.e. dark blue to white), he or she will probably have to go around the room twice, once to prime, the other to paint. It remains, however, a relatively fast process.Faux finishing on the other hand is not a production process. Faux finishes sometimes require a "base coat" (coat of paint) before the decorative painting process can begin. Like a painter, the faux finisher can complete this process fairly quickly.When faux finishing, artisans use small tools like rags, cheesecloth and sponges. They cover only a small area at a time and work to ensure that there are no "dry lines" (overlap marks) or "picture framing" (too dark or too light around ceilings, floors and corners). The decorative painter usually works 45 to 60 square feet per hour. Also, the fact that there is little wall space in a room does not mean it will cost less for labor. Lots of built in cabinets or doors and windows actually take longer go around than a wall with no openings. A professional faux finisher will take the time to make sure that all the edges are "clean", not lighter or darker than the rest of the finish. That takes a great deal of time and will be reflected in the estimate. Kitchens and bathrooms are especially time consuming. In general, faux finishes are "layered," meaning that the artisan does the decorative painting more than one time around the room. Also, faux finishes require a protective coat so that the surface can be cleaned without fading or removing the finish.As you can see, faux finishing requires more time and energy than painting. Therefore the cost is substantially more. A good rule of thumb is that faux finishing a room will cost four to six times more than hiring a professional painting contractor to paint the same room a solid color.Payment Methods: Cash |
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 | Attended various workshops/classes/seminars in the decorative painting industry |
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| Adds color and creativity to your home! |
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| Numerous clients around the Tampa Bay Area and Atlanta Area |
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