Time Aged Finishes - Faux Basics - Learn professional faux finishing techniques Brandon Mississippi

Faux Basics Classes:
Foundation to Faux Painting
Time Aged Finishes

Specialty Classes:
Cabinetry Finishes
Countertops
Venetian Plaster
Lusterstone™
Gilded Finishes
Furniture
Textures

Advanced Classes:
Italian Plaster
Marouflage
Marbling and Wood Graining
Surface Solutions

Registration policy: for this class only full tuition is required to register and is not refundable.

Phone orders: 601-919-3289

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Professional Marbling and
Wood Graining

Specialty Class, Guest Instructor

We are honored to have renowned Scottish decorative artist Cait Whitson teaching this extraordinary class. As a talented artist and teacher Cait will guide you on a journey through the intricate processes of marbling and wood graining. She will instruct using the techniques of the great masters that have been held secret for generations. The particular finishes have been carefully selected to provide you with a gradual learning experience and a beautiful color range for your portfolio.

The Southern Institute of Faux Finishing has been selected as one of only two decorative art schools in the US that Cait will be teaching this summer. Don't miss this fabulous opportunity to add these incredible finishes to your portfolio.

The class will be limited to 8 students.

Spring 2008

Five day class $1495.00

Full tuition is required and is not refundable.

faux effects

Featured work by some of Cait's students.

Cait Whitson

has been involved in the decorative arts since 1986. Her favored field is graining and marbling. She learned her trade in London at Leonard Pardon's School for Specialist Decoration and then latterly at the late Bill Holgate's school.

Cait has carried out work throughout the UK and in Holland, France and Ireland. Her work was chosen for a major refurbishment of the flagship Hilton hotel, Dunkeld House Hotel.Sterling Furniture Group where Cait has worked extensively producing room sets and decorative accents is the largest furniture group in Europe. Cait Whitson worked in Holland for a year creating finishes for the home of Toine Hezeman, the famous Dutch racing driver of the 1970's. A recent restoration project of hers was the Carling Glasgow Academy where she was asked to match Vitrolite panels in the foyer and stairwell. Now in partnership with her husband Gibson Donaldson, she returned to her native Scotland and they relocated to Perthshire and have a studio in the historic village of Dunning.

The services that her consultancy Carte Blanche offers are graining and marbling, paint effects for walls and woodwork, stenciling, murals, hand painted furniture both fitted and freestanding. Carte Blanche is committed to the highest standards of distinctive and refined craftsmanship. Each project is designed individually. Dedicated to improving standards in the trade, raising expectations of the public and the promotion of women in construction, she teaches private individuals at her own studio and painting and decorating apprentices at local colleges.