Saturday, 8 April 2017

How To Make Traditional Easter Egg Decorations


I've been wanting to use gesso to add ornate decoration to blown-out eggshells for some time now, but somehow never got round to it. Last Sunday I saw a gap in my time schedule and seized the moment.


HOW I DID THIS

 I already had the blown-out eggshells, so that saved me some time. Afraid of crushing the hollow shells, I stuck a large needle through both the existing holes and used Blu Tack to hold it in place. This provided me with a small handle enabling me to effortlessly add a few doodles with a pencil.
{See MATERIAL LIST at the bottom of this post}
Next, I started to apply gesso decorations in low relief. I used the same recipe and methods we used to create the decoration on the Italian Style Mirror Frame in the FARRAGOZ Patina PROJECTS Course.


It needed a few hours to dry so I had to abandon my little project until the next day when I painted the details with homemade gold paint.




After the gold paint had dried, it was time to add a resist and then it was ready to be painted with white casein paint. Finally, all it needed was some distressing and to be sealed.




So, to sum up ...


MATERIAL LIST

1. Blown-out eggshells
2. Large needle or piece of wire
3. Blu Tack
4. Pencil
5. Gesso ~ Recipe and methods from FARRAGOZ Patina PROJECTS Course
6. Gold tempera ~ Recipe from FARRAGOZ Online Courses
7. Casein paint ~ Recipe from FARRAGOZ Online Courses
8. Paintbrush
9. Polish


HOW TO

1. Create handle
2. Draw design
3. Apply gesso ~ Following instructions in FARRAGOZ Patina PROJECTS Course
4. Paint gold details
5. Paint white 
6. Distress and polish




I was absolutely thrilled with my new Easter decorations and in complete Easter-decorating-mode by the end of it, so I just kept going.




I had lots more of these empty white eggshells in different sizes and merely added them to other existing displays.











My collection of Easter eggs grows every year and I'm over the moon with what I've added this year. I already have some ideas for next year's Easter, but for now, I'm just enjoying the new additions.


Happy Easter & Happy Painting!

Tania

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Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Another BONUS FINISH added!


It's finally here! 
The paint finish that so many of you have been asking for.



Some time ago I made a sample board like this and blogged about it here. Subsequently, we have had numerous requests that we should add this finish to the FARRAGOZ Patina FINISHES Course.

 So, I constructed a sample board and painted it in various layers of paint using a homemade wood stain, 2 separate paint recipes and glazes.



As with all the other finishes in this course, short videos were made of every little step and instructions were written to accompany each video. Many hours of footage were edited to bring you an easy to follow, step-by-step version of how to recreate this finish. It is presented in 8 units, starting with the "Overview" and working all the way through to "Distress and Seal".



This new finish is a free addition for students currently enrolled in this course. For the rest of you who are not yet enrolled in the Patina FINISHES Course, the price remains the same at $150.

 Students get access to:
  • Very old RECIPES for various paints, sealer, stain, etc.
  • Step-by-Step INSTRUCTIONS and VIDEOS to recreate 26 finishes and their paint from scratch.
  • LIFETIME online private tutor SUPPORT using our Live Chat.
  • LIFETIME ACCESS to the course.
  • An optional student support group where students interact with other students and share their work in progress or completed projects using recipes and techniques from the course.
Here are some of those beautiful furniture projects students have completed lately:

                



We hope you will enjoy recreating this new finish.


Happy Painting!

Tania
xxx


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Monday, 2 January 2017

Happy New Year from FARRAGOZ!


2016 Saw the most awesome patina pieces emerge from the studios and workrooms of FARRAGOZ online students. In celebrating the end of such a creative and productive year, I'm sharing a handful of these treasures with you.

 There were exquisite Colour Wheels, Icons, Clock Faces and Plaques which students made from scratch in the Patina PROJECTS Course.




Lola Llobet - Colour Wheel




Kristin Novljan at Kristinji's World - Made With Love - Icon




Nadia Galinkin at nadia.g2 - Clock Face




Joan Murphy - Icon




Lola Llobet - Plaque




Jayne Camille Slovick - Clock Face




Anna Fabricci at Tea & Table - Icon



And equally beautiful Display Cases, Italian Style Mirror Frames in Low-Relief, and French Style Trumeaux from the same course.



Arleta Strzeszewska at Deququ- Low Relief Mirror Frame




Tina DeLeone - Display Case




Jayne Camille Slovick- Low Relief Mirror Frame




Colleen Doolin - Display Case




Arleta Strzeszewska at Deququ - Trumeau



Sample boards with a rich patina were recreated by students of the Patina FINISHES Course.



Molly Eaton at OUF - F306




Rebecca Nelson at A Farmhouse In Provence - F112




Tina DeLeone - F122




Gerlinde Buck at Flomarktkunst - F125



And students of the Patina FINISHES Course put their newly learnt skills to very good use when they applied them to their own projects.


Michele Wilkinson at Reclaimed pcs




Jan Hetherington at Hether & Grabchyk




Gerlinde Buck at Flomarktkunst


 It has been a treat guiding students and having all these and many other masterpieces shared with us throughout the year. Well done to all!




We're extremely excited to see the patina that students will create in 2017. Creativity is therapy for the soul and we hope that through these courses we can help people deal with the many issues they may be struggling with and make 2017 a joyful, beautiful and peaceful year.





 To all of you and your loved ones, 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Tania
&
The FARRAGOZ Team

XXX
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Friday, 23 December 2016

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from FARRAGOZ!


For some, the magic of Christmas may be gone. For us, it is very much alive.



In our home around the 1st of December, decorations start stirring in their boxes slowly emerging from their hiding places and shaking free from their tissue paper coats. One by one, they find their way to displays, chandeliers and a Christmas tree with its arms stretched out wide welcoming each one in search of a new perch. 






Seeing the house transformed by these tiny guests is most exciting. In a while it will be back to reality, however, for now, we treasure every moment of their short stay.




So, whether you celebrate Christmas or opt for Happy Holidays, we hope yours will be magical!


Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Tania
&
The FARRAGOZ Team

XXX
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Friday, 21 October 2016

NEW Project Added - A Colour Wheel


We are so excited to announce that we have added a new project at the start of the FARRAGOZ Patina PROJECTS Course called the Colour Wheel. 



In 1672 Isaac Newton became the first person to scientifically break down colour and the colour wheel was born.


This led to a multitude of theories about colour especially the one often attributed to Claude Boutet in the 1708 edition of “Traité de la peinture en mignature”, an artist’s manual. 

 It is the colour wheel in this 300-year-old book, of which the colours have degraded over time, that we chose to use as our source. For this project, we decided to reproduce the old colours as they appear in the book.


With the addition of the Colour Wheel project, we hope to help students develop the ability to assess colours and understand how they work when mixed together. The skill to mix your own colours is invaluable for making your own paint, giving you the confidence to mix pigments from any source and create colours as they were created hundreds of years ago.


There are now 7 projects that students can make. Each project is presented in a Module, consisting of various units that are in turn broken up into small bite-size step-by-step instructions and video clips, making it very simple to follow and recreate what you see.
Module Colour Wheel is a watercolour on board copy of a 300-year-old colour wheel, with colours faded by time. 


Module Icon is an oil on board icon of Archangel Michael in the Byzantine style.


Here are a few of the beautiful icons created by students.

            


Module Clock Face is a large casein on board clock face with gold details.


Module Plaque is a wooden wall plaque depicting two angels, painted with tempera, using the Grisaille Method.


Module Display Case is a small display or specimen case which is painted to obtain a tarnished metal look.



Module Italian Style Frame is a mirror frame with decoration on wood done in a low relief and finished in gold. The modern mirror glass is tarnished to look like antique foxed glass.


Module Trumeau Mirror is a Trumeau style over-mantle mirror with handmade decorative ornaments reproduced in handmade moulds.


Throughout the course, students learn to make their own stains, paint, sealer and primer using mostly everyday products and old recipes that artisans used for hundreds of years. Used in the correct combinations and with the techniques we teach, students apply and distress these to acquire different finishes.

 The course will still be offered at the original price.

 To enrol for this online course or to watch our short video, click HERE.

 If you are already signed up for the FARRAGOZ Patina PROJECTS Course, you will automatically have access to the coursework for this newly added project at no extra cost! 

 Now, rush over to COURSES.FARRAGOZ.COM, log in with your student details to find it in the Coursework and enjoy!
Happy Painting!


Tania
xxx
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