Painting before Christmas

It's time to consider brightening up your home's interior for the holidays.
As I have mentioned before, painting your  interior is a great way to prepare for guests and make sure there are not piles of personal stuff behind furniture or lurking in corners, etc.
Giving your walls or even ceilings an new coat of paint will liven up the ambiance and make your friends feel they are in a home that is fresh and inviting.
Pop down to your local paint store and start today.

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Who needs art?

If you have the feeling that art is a waste of money and time, then you may have company.
I mean, they just released a movie made by chimpazee's. I think I must have worked on a few of those during my film career.
Ever since people could scrape and paint images in caves ten thousand years ago, art has had a very important part in our cultural development. Art help's us cummunicate our feelings and thoughts in a direct and immediate way. Like all things human we have many people who hide within art's labarynth, and pretend at being something they are not. Don't let these unfortunates distract you from the positive affect artist's have in our society. Graffitti might be annoying but sometimes it is really good, and like it or not, it is an art form. There are so many types of artistic expression that are out of reach to many of us. Some artist's  don't appeal to me at all.
I am not ashamed to be very critical if I don't like what I see, but that's a part of it. So strive to be open minded, but don't be ashamed to critique what you see.
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Faux Finishes

My theory is that faux finishing falls out of favour everytime it comes into style because so many so called professionals are so bad at it. I have seen faux finishes that would make you groan in disbelief. Any time you combine colours together you need to know how they will work together.
Also dabbing on different colours one after the other is hardly faux finishing.
The subtle glow you can achieve with ragged off glazes are not easy and without a thorough knowledge of glazing, impossible. Latex based paint dries very quickly. Latex based glaze dries even quicker. So getting it off before it sets becomes a very big obsticle to that perfect finish. Also, tinting glazes is a very tricky thing and takes many years to master.
So faux finishing will come and go, but good faux finishing will always give you astounding looks and beautiful surfaces.
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