Image 1: Close up of niche shows the gilded aluminum shell on a violet breche niche.
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Image 2: This niche is accented with gold mica powders and marbled in yellow sienna. |
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Image 3:
Trompe l'oeil niche on faux blanca breche marble foyer.
Private residence/PA. |
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Image 4:
Faux marble in French breche violet and Botticino. |
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Image 5: Faux marble in French petite antique surrounded with gold mica power
finished trims. Private residence, PA. |
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Image 6: Faux marble column in breche violet and walls finished in
distressed damask. |
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Image 7: The walls of this foyer are painted in arabasco breche; the niche and columns in
violet breche; and the accent at chair rail and at crown heights are in alabaster. |
Image 8: Painted in oils, these columns are painted in faux Siena antique, which is an extinct marble. Being extinct makes it a good choice since painting it is the only way to get it anymore unless it is removed from a location. |
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Image 9: Close up of the Siena antique column. |
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Image 10: White carrera column detail. |
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Image 11: Faux alabaster was used on this column which matches the light in the dining room behind . The ring is gilded in gold leaf. Alabaster is more intriguing in flat finish (in my opinion).. |
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Image 12: We divided the walls of this foyer into a large block formation of balnca breche marble. The accent marble is sienna antique, used at the top of the wall, the two small front angled walls, and in the inset marble of the picture frames. The columns were also done in sienna antique with petite antique used on the capitols and bases. |
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Image 13: Detail of foyer. |
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Image 14: Detail of foyer.
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Image 17: Local writer and myself in front of fireplace and wall of faux breche violet marble.
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Image 19: Trompe l'oeil painting over faux marble. Details in the Baroque style.
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Image 20: My exhibit as displayed in the M.C. Escher museum in the Hague, Netherlands, during the summer of 2006 (a great honor for me as he has been one of my favorites since I was 9).
My piece is a Faux Pietra Dura with elements of M.C. Escher drawings, the eclipse which occurred at the time of the Salon and a theme of the deck of cards, all painted in faux marbles and precious stones. The exhibit was comprised of the members of the Salon of Decorative Painters.
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Image 21: This is our sample of antique sienna marble. This is an excellent choice for columns or tops of bureaus and desks.
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Image 22: Grande antique bordered with petite antique. |
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Image 23: Violet breche bordered with petite antique. |
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Image 25: Faux Siena Antique Marble On Walls. |
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Image 26: The walls and ceiling of this foyer, were painted in the same color. The walls were then over-glazed in a burnt umber. The medallion and ring were base coated in bronze then gilded with aluminum leaf and over glazed to blend with the chandelier. The frames under the chair rail were marbled in Siena Antique and varnished. |
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Image 27: Detail of Siena Antique marble painted in oils.. |
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Image 29: Detail of
foyer. |
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Image 30: This wooden mantle was marbled in Violet Breche. The walls are finished in faux parchment. Not pictured is the ceiling done in faux leather and trimmed at the wall and ceiling intersections in rope treated with gold mica powders and toned. |
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