Master your plaster skills and take your ability to a higher level with this 3-Day workshop!
Lime Plasters are the perfect outlet for creativity, allowing you to broaden your portfolio and increase your sales. Participants in this class will build on the skills they have already acquired working in the field with Lime Plasters.
Additional sample boards will include authentic stone blocks, gorgeous Travertino Stone, Silk Fabric that you will have to touch to make sure it is not the real thing.
Lime butter will be used to make a gorgeous polished plaster for just pennies. You will also learn to create a carved marble suitable for most plasters. Lots of other techniques including the use of several different types of waxes.
Unleash your color theory while learning more about color tinting with natural earth pigments and mixing metallic powders into waxes. Master European Artisans know these methods and now you can use them to create the high end finishes which will sell to designers and the discriminating homeowner.
You will be taught three different Lime Plasters line. Not only will Oikos and Dimensions we have recently added Chateau Cool Stone also known as Provencal.
With this class, your sample portfolio will grow and give you outstanding boards to show off to your clients.
Feel secure in your increased knowledge of working plaster which will allow you to reproduce these finishes with confidence, over and over again!
All workshop materials are furnished.
You will leave with a manual that not only helps you to reproduce the finishes you have created at the Institute, but it will become a life-long resource.
It is our firm belief that your success is our success.
We are here to support each other!
Enjoy learning in a relaxed and friendly environment while discovering the newest developments in products and techniques.
$1,250.00 per student
50% DEPOSIT required in advance to reserve space. Balance due upon registration.
(Transportation and lodging not included; lunch complimentary)
Call to register 800 797-4305
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