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Wednesday 7/25/2012, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Room: Tetron
Fee: $365
Instructor: Melanie Royals

Create an incredible 30” x 48”global-inspired, vintage-dyed “carpet” wall hanging on Roc-lon canvas. You will have the chance to experiment with a variety of unique techniques that can be translated individually or in combination to create a wide array of exotic wall finishes. We will play with texture, pattern, distressing, metallic foils, and over-dying with translucent stains. You will receive guidance as to technique and pattern placement, but are encouraged to insert your own unique creativity into your artwork. Multiple color options for final dye colors will be provided. Class fee includes 7 different Royal Design Studio stencils to keep, and a tube for transporting your treasure home!

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 100 Artistic Stenciling

Supplies to Bring: Assorted sizes stencil brushes and plaster trowel
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: 7 Royal Design Stencils used in project (over $250 retail value), Royal Stencil Cremes and round tube for carrying or mailing finished project

1) A lecture about bas relief, the art form, history, and current day application 2) A demonstration and lecture about designing for jobs and working with clients. 3) Explaining necessary materials, tools and products and their correct uses and applications. 4) Demonstrate working on 3 different stages of a bas relief art piece on a board, 7.5 hour: tree scene and bird 5) Show finished board and how faux finishing can enhance the bas relief. 6) Show a variety of ways to display bas relief art. 7) Students will start a 12” x 12” portfolio board to take home with them. Each student will get a small container of sculpture medium and binder to create the sample board. I will provide the tools and bubble wrap.

Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: I will offer my Level 1 DVD (2 DVD Set) for a discounted price of $80.00 for students only. Retail price is $125.00.

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Wednesday 7/25/2012, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Room: Ruby
Fee: $300
Instructor: Pierre Finkelstein

Upsell a job by adding a simply executed ornament above a door, lower panels, or kitchen cabinets. Using simple trompe l’oeil techniques, follow Pierre’s easy steps to complete this 3-D classic Italian ornament. Learn how and where to place your shadow and highlight with confident brush strokes. This is sure to be a portfolio knockout. Brushes will be sold separately during class. This class is best taken with Pierre’s TL FUNDAMENTALS. Create a complete panel with Pierre’s MOLDING IN TL.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 300 Trompe L’Oeil, Woodgraining, Marble

Supplies to Bring: 5h pencil, straight edge – 2 feet minimum, eraser, pencil sharpener/box cutter, small sea sponge, brush caddy, small, round, quality brushes (preferably sable), ornamentation brushes will be available for purchase during class.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: hand-outs, canvas
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Wednesday 7/25/2012, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Room: N-5
Fee: $250
Instructor: Donna Phelps

Explore the perfection in imperfection and the elegant heritage in a worn surface in this exciting new class from Donna Phelps where you will learn to create eight distressed metallic foil finishes appropriate for all wood surfaces. These artisan finishes are elegant in a warm, time-worn sort of way – a look that is created by using Donna’s Metallic Patterned Foils in combination with a variety of embellishing materials and techniques. Designed to accentuate any style and work well on furniture, cabinetry, paneling, interior doors and frames, crown/chair rail moldings, frames and accessories, but adaptable to walls and ceilings too!

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 500 Cabinetry and Furniture Finishes

Supplies to Bring: 1″ blue tape, 3/4″-1″ stencil brush, various sea sponges cut or torn to 1″ – 3″ size, 3-2″ foam brushes, 3 – 2″ chip brushes
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Workshop specific supply kit and detailed step by step manual with finish pics
Supplies Donated By: Donna Phelps, Sarasota School of Faux & Architectural Finishing, Faux Effects and Modello Designs

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Wednesday 7/25/2012, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Room: N-6
Fee: $250
Instructor: Annie Lemarie

Learn to gild! Using various kinds of leaf, mica powder and foils, students will produce 8 sample boards showcasing various kinds of applied metal leaf. Using silver, copper, aluminum and other specialty materials, you will cut, apply, distress, and patina various designs, and produce a “teaching” board to use to educate your clients. One of the boards will be glass, and students will have a chance to try reverse gilding. This is a fast-paced, fun class. Students take home leaf, a stencil, gilders tip, gelatin, recipes and written instructions.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 500 Cabinetry and Furniture Finishes

Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: gilders tip, leaf samples, stencil, aquasize, gelatin diamonds.
Supplies Donated By: Wehrung & Billmeier Gold Leaf Co. and Main Street Arts LLC

This is one of the hottest areas in today’s market – learn cabinet/furniture finishes from preparation to completion. Take old cabinets and furniture and give it new life with the practical and easy techniques taught in this class. Glazing, toning, staining, crackle finishes and much more will be covered. Each student will complete 3 cabinet doors and 4 molding samples (maybe a bonus molding or two if time permits).

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 500 Cabinetry and Furniture Finishes

Supplies to Bring: Artist brushes – 1″ to 1.5″ (3 to 4), water tub/basin, chip brushes, cheesecloth
Supplies Donated By: Faux Effects, Artistic Painting Studio and The Stencilled Garden

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Wednesday 7/25/2012, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Room: N-1
Fee: $245
Instructor: Gary Lord

In this class you will use 6 specialty tools and various products that will give you one of a kind finishes that are fast to execute but look very complicated. This class will also incorporate the use of multi-patterned foils, metallic paints, glazes, and stencils to create these sale-able finishes. This class will also touch on the selling and marketing of these and other decorative painting techniques.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: short stiff nylon bristle brush, wallpaper pasting brush
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: product information sheets, work sheets, step by step sheets
Supplies Donated By: Prismatic Painting Studio, Faux Effects International

Fire and Ice is the newest portfolio created by Kelly S. King, Director of Education and Product Development for Modern Masters. 2 days of exciting techniques using the Platinum Series Glass Bead Gel, intermingled with Metallic Paint, Metallic Plaster, Venetian Plaster and Foils. These 10 finishes will ignite color, glistening shine, and a reflection of radiance as if frozen in water or tantalized with fire. Finishes will glitter with gold or shimmer with silver, slightly modern, cleverly clean, and a touch of tradition. Just when you thought paint was sexy…it’s about to get sexier! Want your sexy back?

Skill Level: Advanced
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: A trowel for Metallic Plaster, sample carrier, wax paper to put between samples, calculator
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: A free kit (for each attendee) with Modern Masters Platinum Products (Retail Value over $400.00). Wall Glazing Cream, Furniture and Cabinetry Glazing Cream, Glazing Cream Colors-4 oz bottle of each of the 44 Colors, Zero VOC Basecoat
Supplies Donated By: Modern Masters

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NOTE – This class has multiple sessions on different days.
Wednesday July 25, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Thursday July 26, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: N-4
Fee: $375
Instructor: Sheri Zeman

Beautiful boards are even more beautiful when they sell! Although the finishes in this class may look difficult, and therefore expensive to your clients, they are actually the best sellers. These tried and true finishes are requested over and over again, and have been carefully developed to make you money. Taking cues from the design showrooms of Chicago these 8 finishes will encompass the latest sought after wall trends. Each will have a background that can stand alone, but are further embellished to give you a two for one board! We will be using production tools and tricks that will make the job go quickly and with ease. We will do boards using plasters, metallics, patterns, glitter and gems, setting you far apart from your competition. Each student will receive a comprehensive binder with formulas and material lists. Also included in the class will be a sample stencil from the newest collection and a glass sample to take home.

Skill Level: Advanced
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: Stainless steel trowel, Japan scrapers, cheesecloth, whiz roller
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Complete instruction manual, sample of crushed glass, small special “Expo 2012″ custom stencil, extra bonus sample finish including instruction and 6″ x 6″ completed sample board.
Supplies Donated By: Faux Effects International

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Wednesday 7/25/2012, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
(Includes break from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm)
Room: N-3
Fee: $325
Instructors: Dru Blair, Melanie Alexander

Increase your skills, profitability, and add a higher level of realism to your painting. In this hands-on workshop students will learn how to properly render photorealistic clouds and sunbeams that will work on walls or ceilings using the airbrush. The course covers: selecting and setting up the airbrush, air sources, paint, masking and use of stencils. The students will also learn how to shade, render and create texture with the airbrush and much more.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 900 Air Brushing

Supplies to Bring: #11 xacto knife and 5 blades
Supplies Donated By: Iwata Medea Airbrushes and Golden Artist Colors

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-5
Fee: $295
Instructor: Sheri Hoeger

Stencils present windows of opportunity for the decorative artist, with a wide variety of designs and technique combinations. Learn skills combining decorative finishes with stenciled detail using a variety of SayWhat? adhesive masks with fabulous designs that are readily available, cost effective and completely customizable. We’ll show you where and how to find huge libraries of royalty-free artwork that can be customized and cut specifically for your projects. The samples will range from a subtle travertine finish embellished with a very detailed Victorian leaf scroll to deep-toned Art Nouveau foliage, Moroccan Motif, a Chinese Wave and a softly colored Chinoiserie.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 100 Artistic Stenciling

Supplies to Bring: Craft knife with #11 blade. Not a box cutter. Plaster spatula or trowel.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Samples will be 16″ x 20″ sections of large scale designs. Students will take one full sized adhesive mask home.
Supplies Donated By: The Mad Stencilist–SayWhat? Decorative Masks, Golden Artist Colors, Dover Publications

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-6
Fee: $210
Instructor: Helen Morris

Want to know how to cut your own stencils neatly and safely? Want to know how to alter scale? Want to know simple stencil masking methods that give an impression of perspective? Well, those are three of the subjects covered in this class. Using a combination of my stencil and one made by you, we will create a field of stenciled flowers using a soft, color blend technique. This is a useful class for anyone applying for certification.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 100 Artistic Stenciling

Supplies to Bring: craft scalpel, cutting mat, scissors, 3 good quality medium sized stencil brushes. Contact Helen with supply queries.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: A stencil. Students will convert scale then cut another stencil and masks which they will keep.
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Paints, Inc. and The Stencil Library

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: Tetron
Fee: $250
Instructor: Mats Carlsson

In this workshop we will do a mural in Pompeii technique. This technique is really fast. We paint on a textured basecoat using Golden fluid acrylics, and give it cracks, flakes and a wonderful aging patina. Because it is so fast, it will be a money making technique for you in the future. You will learn how to build the textured basecoat, transfer techniques, some trompe lóeil effects, using the paint stick (mahl stick), aging patina.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 200 Murals

Supplies to Bring: Painting stick (mahl stick), ruler, 2 – 3 spalter #2″ artist brushes, 2 pointed artist brushes (1 small & 1 medium, 2 bristle brushes 1/4″ – 1/2″, 1 piece of sand paper (#100 – 140 grit), small rag, disposable plates (paletts) and small water bucket
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Step by step instruction “book”
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: Whitney
Fee: $300
Instructor: Tatiana Rugers

A beautiful and elegant panel (20″ by 28″) which you will paint in this class will be a great addition to your portfolio. You will learn how to transfer an image and how to create a monochromatic landscape which could be an elegant mural for a client’s wall.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 200 Murals

Supplies to Bring: 1 brown water pencil, wide and medium wide natural bristle painter brushes (2″, 3″ widths). Artists brushes: filbert, round brushes, pointed and script. Stencil brush (for symbols), masking tape and paper towel. Also you can bring any of your favorite brushes.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Cartoons
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: Ruby
Fee: $300
Instructor: Pierre Finkelstein

Create 4 sides of a frame in trompe l’oeil. Using a striping edge and specialized striping brushes, students will quickly gain confidence in making clean, straight, and faded lines. Students will learn how and where to place highlight and shadow and create the illusion of 3-D. Use that knowledge to create your own frame. Make this a portfolio piece to show your versatility. Striping edge and specialized brushes sold separately during class. This class is best taken with Pierre’s TL Fundamentals. Create a complete panel with Pierre’s Ornament in TL.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 300 Trompe L’Oeil, Woodgraining, Marble

Supplies to Bring: 5h pencil, straight edge – 2 feet minimum, eraser, pencil sharpener/box cutter, small sea sponge, brush caddy, striping edge (a yardstick is not the same thing), specialized striping brushes (have a long handle and only used for this technique), striping edges and brushes will be available for purchase during class.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Hand out canvas sample
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-1
Fee: $245
Instructor: Gary Lord

The color gray is a dominate color in today’s design industry. Each of these 6 samples show a unique design theme using varying shades and sheens of grays. The class will use specialty tools to create some of the designs, metallic foils, metallic paints, plasters, stencils, glazes and products. Take this opportunity to enhance your portfolio with one of today’s biggest design trends to help meet your client’s needs.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: short hard bristle scrub brush, whizz rollers
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: worksheets, step by step instructions
Supplies Donated By: Prismatic Painting Studio, Faux Effects International, Cutting Edge Stencils

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NOTE – This class has multiple sessions on different days.
Thursday July 26, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Friday July 27, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: N-2
Fee: $295
Instructors: Jennifer Ferguson, Morey Dunbar

Jennifer and Morey have combined their creative magic and bring to you, the hard working finisher, some incredible fast and luxurious finishes that are guaranteed money makers. Add a sleek new level of glamor, sophistication and style to your portfolio and demonstrate a distinct artistic edge that will raise you above your competition. Expand your knowledge of products, materials and reactions to one another. Students will complete 8 (18″ x 24″) sample boards and will get to keep one tool and one stencil design.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: Wallpaper brush, 1″ stencil brushes (2 to 3), trowel – Japanese or Venetian plaster, sea sponge roller – whizz roller, chip brushes, sponge brushes, terry rags, zip lock bags
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Corduroy Effect tool
Supplies Donated By: Faux Effects International, Artistic Painting Studio, The Stencilled Garden, Painted, DecoFinish – Oikos, Martin Alan Hirsch – The Faux Finish School

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NOTE – This class has multiple sessions on different days.
Thursday July 26, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Friday July 27, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: N-7
Fee: $450
Instructor: Ellie Ellis

Bring true definition, depth, and beauty to your work by learning how to do low (bas) relief and high (alto) relief. In this class you’ll create 4 sample boards – Byzantine Wall Frieze, a cabinet door made to look like sculpted Iron, a 20″ x 24″ bas relief grape vine, and a 20″ x 24″ high relief mountain scene. Through the high relief you’ll learn to sculpt trees, mountains, lakes, animals and birds using plaster. You’ll also be learning the entire process of mold-making which will save you countless hours in production time. You’ll learn some cabinetry refinishing, glazing and plastering techniques as well.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: Your creativity and excitement – clay/sculpting tools (Michael’s Craft store) – small putty knife, trowels, Japan scrapers – disposable cake decorating bags – decorating tips #12 & #15 & 352 or 366 – couplings for cake decorating bag – old artist brushes (for scraping and adding textures) i.e. Filbert #4, round #2 – chip brushes – terry towels & rags – paper towels – styrofoam plates – containers for water – 1 mud pan or mixing containers for the plaster – latex gloves – block sander and 1 sheet of fine grit sandpaper – watercolor pencil – water spray bottle – small sea sponge with lots of texture – ruler – blue tape – scissors
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: 1 2# kit of silicone rubber for mold making, Modern Masters products, 1 CD with inspirational photos of high and low reliefs from around the world and through the ages. Plaster pieces, molds and castings made in class, design patterns and some other surprises that are in the works. Value is over $475.00 so basically you are getting your class for free!
Supplies Donated By: Modern Masters Inc., Polytek Development Corp., Transforming Walls Bas-Relief Plaster

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-3
Fee: $325
Instructors: Dru Blair, Melanie Alexander

If you are looking for the ultimate in realism in your work, this hands-on workshop will show you how to create fantastic illusions of pilasters or columns projecting from walls using the airbrush. The Trompe L’oeil course covers: selecting and setting up the airbrush, air sources, paint, masking and use of stencils. The students will also learn how to shade, render and everything you need to know about light and shadows to create photorealistic Trompe L’oeil effects.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 900 Air Brushing

Supplies to Bring: #11 xacto knife and 5 blades
Supplies Donated By: Iwata Medea Airbrushes and Golden Artist Colors

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Thursday 7/26/2012, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Room: N-4
Fee: $60
Instructor: Cynthia Borman

After attending The Historical Stenciled Room Recreated: How’s & Why’s participants will be inspired to take their stencil designs further. Attendees are introduced to First Chicago School Architect, Louis Sullivan, and experience firsthand the recreation of the historical room. In addition to receiving information on how to successfully scale the design for the room, attendees are walked through copyright process for their stencil designs; how to purchase an ISBN number for their stencil; choose best book layout for their collection and final path to publication using the Louis Sullivan Stencil Collection© as an example. Handouts with source information provided.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 700 Business Lecture/Demo

Supplies to Bring: N/A
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: N/A
Supplies Donated By: N/A

How light and shadow fall on molding, a relief, or an ornament is the key to understanding trompe l’oeil. Watch as Pierre gives his lecture on the illusion of 3-D. He’ll break down every profile and simplify them with drawings and explanation. You will learn how to mix half-tone and highlight color. Once you have learned his simple yet thorough steps, you will be able to apply shadow and highlights on ANYTHING (molding, ornament, figures, etc.).

Supplies to Bring: pen highlighter, paper, notebook, camera, no video
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Hand out

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Friday 7/27/2012, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: N-5
Fee: $160
Instructor: Alison Woolley

Students will create a hand painted sample on a small wooden board (16″ x 20″). We will cover the techniques for preparing and base coating furniture with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, and how to mix a limited color palette that works harmoniously. Examples of adapting designs for furniture, making delicious color palettes from fabric swatches, and composing ornaments will be discussed. Students will learn techniques for creating effective shadow and line work with surprisingly few colors and brushstrokes. Water based casein paints will be used for the hand painted ornament. Furniture finishing, waxing and patinas will be discussed.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 500 Cabinetry and Furniture Finishes

Supplies to Bring: fine tip paint brushes, liner brushes
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: One sample pot Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, two sample tubes Shiva Casein Paint, the full pattern on tracing paper of the design used in class for use on other projects
Supplies Donated By: Chalk Paints: Annie Sloan Interiors, 33 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HP, UK and Casein Paints, Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., 557 Marcella Street, Kimberly, WI 54136, USA

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Friday 7/27/2012, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Ruby
Fee: $125
Instructor: Donna Phelps

It’s your choice! In this workshop you’ll be able to choose either of two versions of the three foiled stencil finishes shown to create in class AND receive the recipe for both! You will each complete three of the six samples using Donna’s fabulous MetalFx and PatternFx Transfer Foils, three custom stencil designs, and a quick and easy tone and top coat technique. Take home your three finishes, a detailed manual that includes step by step instructions for creating all six of the shown finishes, and a foil transfer brush. Take CreativeFx 2 using different stencils for a complete set!

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: 1″ blue tape, 3″ foam brush, wallpaper paste brush, 4″ chip brush, Neon Leon/6″ nylon pouncing brush
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: 1. Workshop specific supply kit w/foil transfer brush. 2. Detailed step by step manual with finish pics and product specifications.
Supplies Donated By: Donna Phelps, Sarasota School of Faux & Architectural Finishing and Faux Effects International

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Friday 7/27/2012, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Tetron
Fee: $95
Instructors: Ed Mattingly, Pat Ganino

Ever wonder why your sample boards are not winning you multiple projects? Review several state-of-the-art examples of sales portfolios both painted and electronic, focusing on the common pitfalls to avoid and most effective and efficient paths to take when designing your portfolio and sales plan. We will cover the sales call “script,” including frequently asked questions and comments with a focus on the consumers’ concerns and thought process. We will also “connect the dots” and direct you to several networking opportunities both live and through social media, leveraging existing powerful sales and marketing networks.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 700 Business Lecture/Demo

Supplies to Bring: Portfolio examples
Supplies Donated By: Sherwin-Williams and Faux Forum

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Friday 7/27/2012, 8:00 am – 10:00 am
Room: N-1
Fee: $119
Instructor: Henri Menendez

Cabinet Master Demo and Lecture Edition is designed for students unable to take the hands-on workshop. The lecture will cover all phases of the cabinet finishing industry including prep, techniques, marketing, estimating, product knowledge, and spraying. The instructor has completed over 400 cabinet projects and has extensive knowledge of how to increase productivity and profits in this sector of our industry. Demos will be performed with pro style spray equipment using waterborne lacquers. This class is for the serious finisher wanting to improve sales, increase production, provide higher quality service, and make more money$$. All questions welcomed!!

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 800 Artistic Lecture/Demo

Supplies to Bring: pen, notebook, and camera (if desired) but no video.
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors and Sherwin Williams

Tish & Jesse have taught many workshops on decorative painting techniques & mural painting. This demonstration will take you outside of “the box” presenting an innovative approach to drawing, painting, designing stencils & more on or off the project site. We will show you how to use your computer as a library resource for saving & projecting images. Anything you can think of, artistically, can be recreated with accuracy & speed regardless of your skill level. Beginners will become advanced, and advanced will become experts. The class will involve visual demonstrations and all students will be invited to participate and take home whatever they create! This class will show you doors that you didn’t know were there & teach you how to open them. This artistic lecture/hands-on demo will inspire the students to get their imagery correct from the start. We will be projecting and drawing/painting images directly on to large sheets of paper. If the class is full, we may not be able to produce any image for each student, but we will try. What you take home is a process that has taken me a lifetime to develop.

Also we are pleased at this time to be able to introduce our patent pending process “Fauxsaics”tm, which is a process that transforms almost any surface into an extremely life-like dimensional mosaic. At a fraction of the time of the actual labor intensive mosaic process, “Fauxsaics” tm will save you money, plus it can be applied to floors, counter tops, walls, ceilings, and on almost any other surface you can imagine with the dimensional products that are available today. With “Fauxsaics” tm, unlimited potential and customized product designs, the possibilities are endless.

Supplies to Bring: An open mind, any image they want to create.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: If time allows for it, each student will be encouraged to create an image of their choice to replicate with speed & accuracy.
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artists Colors & Laser Excel

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Friday 7/27/2012, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Whitney
Fee: $100
Instructor: Steve Shriver

Steve Shriver takes the pain out of learning perspective with a slant to what decorative artists need to know for designing trompe l’oeil and murals. Join us for an introduction (or review, if you just want to brush up after a few years) to one, two and three point perspective and how to make it work for you. We’ll also talk about atmospheric perspective for painters. Lots of visual aids and humor make the time fly by as we connect the dots to create the believable illusion of space needed for convincing landscapes and architectural details.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 800 Artistic Lecture/Demo

Supplies to Bring: Sketchbook and pencil or pens, eraser, 12″ ruler
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: There will be a handout packet of printed materials you can take home in addition to the notes and drawings you will produce during the workshop.

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Friday 7/27/2012, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: N-1
Fee: $125
Instructor: Dru Blair, Melanie Alexander

Color can be the most challenging part of any project, as most artists would agree. This lecture on color theory by Photorealist painter Dru Blair, takes the mystery out of color, and gives insight into how we evaluate and perceive the world around us. The simple and easy to understand explanation and demonstration will show you how to properly evaluate color and perfectly match your target color every time.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 800 Artistic Lecture/Demo

Supplies to Bring: #11 Xacto knife and 5 blades
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-3
Fee: $325
Instructor: Lynne Rutter

Is the sky always blue? What about the rest of the room? In this intensive workshop you will learn techniques for painting cloudscapes in any color desired, from sunny and serene to stormy and dramatic, designing color palettes for tailoring the mural to the room and its decor. On two 48″ x 36″ panels, learn techniques for painting colorful, expressive cloud murals easily and quickly while practicing at full scale. Finishers and muralists alike will benefit from this class. Each participating artist will design and paint two unique colorful cloud ceilings.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 200 Murals

Supplies to Bring: Your favorite mural brushes, sea sponge, medium sized scenic fitch, large bristle filberts, 1″ domed or pointed round glazing brush. Some brushes will be available for purchase from the instructor. Bring a tube for transporting your finished murals.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: class notes, reference material, prepared mural panels
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors, Lynne Rutter Studio

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-7
Fee: $225
Instructor: Rita Broughton

Just imagine how much your clients will enjoy a window with a coastal Venetian view to expand and brighten any room in their home. This trompe l’oeil mural will be painted on canvas and ready to hang. Learn how to simulate a stone Venetian window frame and a landscape incorporating a misty view of mountains, foliage, water and sky with clouds. Using Golden Artist Colors and glazes we be creating atmospheric textures. Learn quick and easy ways to render leaves and bushes with quick strokes of the brush.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 200 Murals

Supplies to Bring: Basic kit plus an assortment of brushes: A variety of Loew-Cornell Angular brushes or a similar brand. Sizes: 1/4″, 1/2, 3/8″, 3/4″,1″. Also: flat angle paint brushes 1 1/2″, 2″ flexible tape 1/4″ or smaller
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: Tetron
Fee: $300
Instructor: Mats Carlsson

You will make a wonderful trompe l’oeil/still life painting using fast, money making techniques. We will be working with Golden fluid acrylics on canvas. After this workshop you will understand how to paint different objects in trompe l’oeil. We will paint a wine bottle and cork, some grapes, a couple of transparent glasses and a wonderful drop of wine coming out from the painting.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 300 Trompe L’Oeil, Woodgraining, Marble

Supplies to Bring: Painting stick (mahl stick), ruler, disposable plates (paletts), small rag, small water bucket, 2 – 3 regular paint brushes 2″ wide, 2 pointed brushes – small and medium size, 1 flat artist brush 1/4″ – 1/2″, 3 – 4 bristle brushes – small and medium 1/4″ – 1/2″, And it’s never wrong to bring your digital camera.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Description book with step by step explanation and pictures
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: Whitney
Fee: $200
Instructor: Steve Shriver

Move beyond stenciling with an in-depth approach to creating your own trompe l’oeil borders for your decorative work. All levels of students are welcome to this workshop, though it’s probably a good idea to have some experience with acrylics and drawing. We’ll be painting a simple egg-and-dart molding that can be translated into many different applications and colors. Using acrylic paints, we will create 3 different color ways (gold, antique bronze, and stone) as we talk about the underlying principles of ornamental painting. Students will leave with a kit of brushes and a finished board with three presentation samples.

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 300 Trompe L’Oeil, Woodgraining, Marble

Supplies to Bring: Favorite brushes for acrylic paint
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: 1″ Sablette stroke brush, 1/2″ Sablette stroke brush and #6 Sablette liner
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-1
Fee: $369
Instructor: Henri Menendez

Cabinetry should look and feel like fine furniture. If yours doesn’t, then you need the Cabinet Master Class! Learn pro techniques to master the fastest growing sector of our industry. 6 wood samples will be completed by each student to build their portfolio. We’ll also cover additional finishes during demos. Extensive lecture time will cover prep, estimating, marketing, product knowledge, spraying, toning, glazing, and more. No other class can offer this much insight into cabinet and furniture finishing. There will be some spraying in class using waterborne lacquers. This if for serious minded finishers. No products pimped here!

Skill Level: Intermediate
Class Type: 500 Cabinetry and Furniture Finishes

Supplies to Bring: several 1″ – 1 1/2″ brushes, liner brush, sanding sponge (fine or ultra-fine), some rags, 1″ foam brush (2-3), please NO chip brushes!!
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Detailed instructions, source lists, estimating elevations, and of course your own set of finished samples made in class.
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-4
Fee: $495
Instructor: Mindy Harrell

In the class with Artisan Mindy Harrell, you will complete 10 mixed medium strike-offs and one piece of canvas art. While a blank canvas holds all the possibility in the world creatively, this workshop will offer a way to begin a piece of artwork. The concept for this class was to inspire the decorative artisan in how to create professional art, using existing techniques they possess and incorporate them into another profitable market. On a practical side, we use common materials and tools (often already in your studio) to execute the canvas work. Materials by: Golden, Perfetto

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: Trowel, palette knives of various sizes, recycled materials, a small amount: could include but not limited to: buttons, scrap metal, scrapbook paper, fiber strands, beads, various paint brushes, chip brushes, White Masking Tape (1) roll, embellishments, old newspapers, etc.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: 1 Crackle kit by Perfetto-Blue Pearl (Contains 7 different mediums)
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Colors, Perfetto-Blue Pearl and Fauxmerchant.com

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
(Includes break from Noon to 1:30 pm)
Room: N-6
Fee: $210
Instructor: Helen Morris

Polka dots offer perennial fresh, universal appeal BUT throw in three print colors along with unorthodox pattern registration and all kinds of color, pattern and mayhem can be achieved. The stencils and the knowledge from this class are useful tools to create contemporary decoration over many surfaces including art canvas.

Skill Level: Beginner
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: 4 good quality stencil brushes, medium to large size. Sample will be stenciled onto paper from roll, bring smarter substrate if designed, e.g. 4″ x 16″ x 20″ boards, canvas or polystyrene.
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: two stencils (retail value $77.00)
Supplies Donated By: Golden Artist Paints, Inc., The Stencil Library

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: Ruby
Fee: $115
Instructor: Donna Phelps

In this workshop you will create three beautifully modern foiled stencil finishes. Learn to use fabulous MetalFx, PatternFx, and JewelFx Metallic Transfer Foils with the quickest, easiest tone and topcoat technique ever invented! Using foils to stencil with instead of paint or plasters is a no-brainer! A no-mess, no cleanup stenciling technique that is as beautiful as it is easy! Take home your three samples and a detailed manual that includes step by step instructions for creating the workshop completed finishes plus an alternate color-way recipe for each. Complete the set! Take CreativeFx 1 for three additional foiled stencil finishes!

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 600 Decorative Wall Finishes

Supplies to Bring: 1″ blue tape, 3″ foam brush, 4″ chip brush, Neon Leon/6″ nylon pouncing brush, foil transfer brush
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: Workshop specific supply kit and detailed step by step manual with finish pics and product specifications
Supplies Donated By: Donna Phelps, Sarasota School of Faux & Architectural Finishing and Faux Effects International

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Room: N-5
Fee: $160
Instructor: Alison Woolley

Students will work on four small wooden molding samples. Each one is an example of various different uses and combinations of decorative gilding techniques. We will use traditional materials like gesso, bole, and casein paint in combination with modern materials like acrylic gold size, acrylic paints and glazes. The combination of old and new techniques allows us to obtain rich effects within modern time restraints. The teacher has many years of professional gilding experience and can share tips and techniques that work effectively on wooden frames, plaster moldings or walls.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 800 Artistic Lecture/Demo

Supplies to Bring: fine tip paint brushes, steel wool, fine grade, polystyrene sample panels (wooden moldings are provided, but if students have time they can make extra samples on polystyrene boards)
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: One book of composition leaf, one book of aluminum leaf and package of border patterns used in class for use on other projects
Supplies Donated By: Gold leaf: Easy Leaf Products, 6001 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90038, USA and Casein Paint: Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., 557 Marcella Street, Kimberly, WI 54136, USA

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Saturday 7/28/2012, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Room: N-5
Fee: $160
Instructor: Alison Woolley

Students will create a stenciled sample board and several small wooden moldings with various examples of finishes for furniture. We will cover the techniques for preparing and base coating furniture with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, and how to make a monochromatic palette or grey scale. We will apply a design to the sample panel using an original stencil, which can later be re-used and adapted for other projects. Waxing and antiquing techniques will be discussed. Favorite examples of well loved European furniture finishes will be covered such as Shabby Chic, Gustavian, and Crème Paint.

Skill Level: All Skills
Class Type: 100 Artistic Stenciling

Supplies to Bring: fine tip paint brushes and stencil brushes (small and medium sizes)
Supplies/tools/stencils student keeps: One sample pot Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, two sample tubes Shiva Casein Paint and one original stencil designed by the instructor.
Supplies Donated By: Chalk Paints: Annie Sloan Interiors, 33 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1HP, UK and Casein Paints, Jack Richeson & Co., Inc., 557 Marcella Street, Kimberly, WI 54136

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