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Faux Finishes have long been utilized to replicate materials found in nature (ie woodgrains, stone, marble etc) but were unavailable to craftsmen due to building constraints, lack of resources, or practicality of application. Additionally, faux finishing techniques are an integral part of more artistic endeavors like trompe l'oeil, grisaille, tole painting, murals and fine art. Whether through broken color-work, color mottling, gradient shadowing or dry-brush, basic techniques are stacked as key elements in all types of intricate artwork. While simple faux effects and faux finishes are certainly acceptable as finishes on their own, it is important to realize that the methods do not stop there. In recent years, the United States faux finishing market has seen a drastic upswing in actual plaster and stucco techniques from Europe, the Middle East and South America. These include but are not limited to marmorino, grassello, and the ever-popular Venetian Plaster. While some of these methods have been studied and held in high regard for their historic application by many decorative finishers here in the U.S., others have taken drastic turns for the worse as a means of selling inferior products for the purpose of replicating superior materials. One of the most extreme examples of this is Venetian Plaster. Known simply as polished plaster throughout other parts of the world, this technique, when exercised in the U.S., is generally neither "Venetian" or "Plaster". The overwhelming majority of the Venetian Plasters available are nothing more than thick-bodied acryilc paints made into a paste form with the addition of fillers. Thus, they lack the transluscency and depth associated with genuine polished plasters produced elsewhere. While many have a high degree of crushed marble content (nothing more than a filler itself), they are missing the primary factor of slaked lime present and necessary in actual polished plasters. Hence, the lack of clarity and polish from these "plastic" versions. As a result, many American manufacturers recommend non-traditional methods of application like skip-troweling, heavy texturing and backfilling in an attempt to simulate the movement which naturally occurs in lime versions. Some even go so far as to recommend "burning" or "scarring" the plaster during the burnishing process in hopes of acheiving a semblance of transluscent overlap in the plaster. The list of incorrect information being propogated goes on and on from there.
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The Bella Vernici Architectural and Decorative Concrete System and concrete acid stain is designed to work for Decorative and
Faux Finishing Paint Artists and Concrete Contractors to create a concrete and cement veneer as well as chemical or
concrete acid stain system that will create a faux or decorative concrete acid stain finish designed to
embellish any art or design in a home. Classes paint the image of the concrete system that
dispells the myth that concrete acid stains have to be difficult to paint, stain, decorate or contract with.
Using Modello design stencils and acid stain, the Bella Vernici system can offer artists and decorative
painters options never seen in Decorative concrete paint or concrete acid stains previously.
Additionally, our cement overlay concrete veneer offers a paper-thin profile that
reacts with the concrete acid stain or concrete chemical stains like a six-inch concrete slab. No other concrete or cement overlay system can allow for such drastic reactions while maintaining color integrity and artistic applications when dealing with concrete acid stain, concrete acidic paint or chemical stains-especially when utilizing the Modello design stencils. Through the gelatinizing process of our concrete overlay system's gel oride, non-bleed Modello design stencil work is achieved with acid stain. Artwork takes on a whole new embodiment when including the fresco medium available in our concrete overlay veneer system. This cement overlay has an 8hr window for buon fresco application of concrete acid stain, chemical dye or pure pigment application for a true, crystallization in wet fresco. Modello design stencils may also be used in conjunction with the cement overlay fresco medium when doing these architectural finishes. Concrete Acid Stains can be thickened with the gel oride and rubbed on the Modello design stencils to create patterns in the fresco or a wall pattern from acid stains that gives the beauty and durability of the concrete finishes of ancient Rome. All of these architectural finishes offer the design, art and decorative aspects associated with concrete and cement finishes and concrete acid stains popular in architectural design today. |