SPECIAL FINISHES

Consortium Arts creates both traditional and modern wall and furniture treatments. These may include traditional glaze techniques such as striae, crosshatching, stippling, irridescent and metallic finishes, or painted floor designs. The kinds of effects that can be achieved with oil or water based glazes (transparent paint medium) are limited only by the artist imagination.

Faux stone block and faux bois. Residential foyer, New York City

STRIÆ and CROSSHATCHING

(dragging)

Striæ is created by simply dragging a dry brush through a wet glaze leaving fine stripes on the surface. A crosshatch glaze double Striæ overlaid at right angles which give the impression of a fabric weave.

Striæ can be used on walls, though it also provides an elegant edge on doorframes and trim (skirting boards, cornices). Crosshatching is wonderful on walls and panels. We have produced very interesting crosshatched glazes by using special light reactive pigments and matching the colours of each layer to fabrics the designer has chosen for the room.

STONE BLOCKING

Our faux stone blocks are quite different from the standard. We treat each block as a separate painting, building a painterly tonal conversation with rectangles over the whole wall. This application enhances any interior, commercial or residential. In fact a lot or our limestone finish is also on display in the Metropolitan Museum, NYC