Wall Trends: Decor Finishes: Wed & Thurs

Service Description

Learn the brush and trowel techniques behind today's most requested decorative wall finishes: highly desirable Lime Wash surfaces, troweled metallic wall coatings, Venetian plasters, Wall Clay, matte finishes, and more. In this 2-day, 12-hour program you will produce 8 portfolio-quality sample boards using: • Texturline Moire' — a metallic wall finish • Novacolor Animamundi — a metallic wall finish • Valpaint Setavel and Sabulador — matte wall coatings • Golden Wall Works Soapstone — a matte finish • Colors by Drew Wall Clay — introducing the new "Colors with Attitude, Colors for Your Mood" collection • Texturline Reflecta — a high-gloss Venetian plaster Your tuition includes all sample boards and materials plus a professional tool kit to take home: a Co.Me' stainless steel Venetian plaster blade, a 210mm stainless steel Japanese blade, a Co.Me' stainless steel flat blade, and the Colors by Drew Atmospheres and Elements Moire' color catalog — tools and catalog valued at $175. Your instructor: Drew Beninati has been a painter, wallcovering installer, and decorative plaster contractor for over 35 years. He is a certified master applicator of Venetian plasters, technical advisor for Protek Paint Ltd., master applicator/trainer/distributor for Coverit, Texturline, and Novacolor Italy, colorist and developer of the Colors by Drew systems, founder of the Minneapolis Institute of Fine Finishes (2004), and president of Renaissance Coating Consultants LLC. He has trained applicators across the US and in Toronto, Tokyo, and Guangdong, China.