From Euro Trash to Euro Chic . . . "A Little Bit of Europe Every Day"

Trompe l'oeil and furniture faux finishes

"Chic" - Noun, style and elegance. Adjective, - a classy, sophisticated manner, much like Audrey Hepburn. It is classy, glamorous, without being a pushover, and without being flashy. It's an element of class.

Class Dates
Openings
What to Bring
September 8 - 14, 2008
2
Fabric Swatches, 8 x 11 Poster, Color Wheel
November 30 - December 6, 2008
Openings
Fabric Swatches, 8 x 11 Poster, Color Wheel


News Flash

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) announces that furniture-style cabinetry is a "Hot and sizzling trend" and will continue to be a popular feature in kitchen design, which leads to yet another trend, incorporating features from heirloom quality furniture such as glazed, distressed, hand painted and antique faux finishes.

Can you afford to miss this class?

This truly European faux painting

  • Furniture
  • Kitchen Cabinets
  • Columns
  • Media Centers
  • Interior Doors
  • Exterior Doors
  • Table tops and many more

These are the 5 techiniques you will master:

French Country Glazing


Red French Glaze

Beige French Glaze

Wood Tone
French Glaze

Lime Stone


Moldings & Trims


Louis XVI


Mayerling


Mmde. Pompadur


Josephine


Orsini


Marie Antoinette


Florence


Contempo


Pietra Serena


Metallics


Mediterranean Slate

Pitted Rust

Venetian Gold
Faux Venetian Plaster

Pitted Gold


Trompe L'oeil


Cartouche

Lattice 1

Rococo


Rustic French Finishes "A La Provençe"


Provençe

Venito
Close Up

Provençe
Close Up

"Sissi" Queen
of Austria

French Country
Close Up


This is one class you can't miss out on, if you are serious about your faux painting business.

Register now and take the opportunity to make $1000's of additional profits. In these difficult economic times you must diversify your work and approach different clientele.

Your teacher, Heidi von Weitzer. A renowned European Artist, international furniture designer with over 30 years of decorative painting and home furnishings experience. Her work and designs have been published in many Design magazines. Heidi is happy to teach you everything she knows.

Heidi is recognized as a faux painting authority, with a trained eye for good taste and color, unique faux finishes and trompe l'oeil work have catapulted her studio to the top. VIP clients such as Andy Van Slyke, Detroit Tigers and Kirk Rueter, San Francisco Giants.

I have been painting and distressing furniture since I was 16 years old. Now I'm . . . (only my friends know), and I am still going. Register now and take advantage of Heidi's experience.

The class offers unique faux finishes, which I am creating on a daily basis for my clients. The finishes are developed by me using run of the mill mediums, whatever I can dream up!

All this for only $1800 for the class!





 
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