Plaster for Niches

Important Update!

Plaster For Niches How To Faux DVD is now available

Click on the link below to see the

How to Faux Previews

Extended contest dates!

I have two winners so far on this contest and am still looking for that 3rd winner so

I have extended this contest until January 15th, 2011

I have always loved using plaster for niches because it just seems right, Even though you can do pretty much anything within a niche I think you should at least start with a plaster

I am sure most of you experienced decorative pros out there are familiar with what your looking at here and if your not then I suggest you call up your local school and schedule a class right away lol

I am going to do something different with this blog entry to try and encourage a little incentive with everyone.

I am in the middle of producing two new “How to Faux Videos” DVD’s and one involves this “Plaster For Niches” design and the other is my “Tortoise Shell Hexagon Design” which both will be added to my “Amazing Accents” DVD series.

Here’s the scoop….

for the first 3 people who can guess what product I used and what colors, I will send them a Free copy of this DVD when it becomes available.

BUT …..yes, there’s always a BUT….you didn’t think this was going to be easy did you?

In order to qualify you must leave  a comment on this page and sign up for the contest below.

In response you will automatically receive an email confirming the contest and you will

receive a “HINT” to help you get started.

This is a very cool technique that I use quite often because of how involved I get with it. You see as an artist it’s all about “mindset” and

becoming one with,

The tool , The material, The music, and The mind.

At the risk of sounding like some kind of a nut and possibly losing some of my subscribers I am going to reveal what I mean by the statement above. So hang on to your hats, and bonnets and get ready for a trip down the rabbit hole Alice, and hopefully we will survive this escape from reality and maybe, just maybe, most of my artists friends will be inspired by this journey into the quagmire that most of us call

“Artistic Freedom”

The Tool….

To begin with I used a trowel in this finish, BUT I don’t use it in the traditional sense, let me explain,

I use tools as an extension of what I feel within myself which is why most have a hard time replicating what I do,  sometimes even I have a hard time replicating some things that I create because I get so involved with my inner self that it becomes a very spiritual thing for me, that it becomes more about individuality, and if everything is just right, the client is the lucky one to have that “one of a kind” original finish that no one else has….

The Material….

Understanding the material or medium is very important and focusing on every aspect and characteristic of how it flows, how it dries, the viscosity, and being able to “feel” the material as if the tool wasn’t there will put you closer to it to the point of where it actually becomes part of your very being….and what I call “to be connected”

The Music….

Music Soothes The Savage Beast…..

Good music motivates the soul and creates the harmony for it all to connect, the toning of the canvas you might say 

Hold on tight this is where it really gets deep….. The “Beast” being “The Right Brain and Left Brain” which is consistently reminding one side of the others presence is a battle that artists have fought for centuries. It is one of the hardest accomplishments that artists must overcome in the sense that one side doesn’t deny the others ability to be creative and think outside of the box and still  cooperate with the logic of whats to be the truth and the facts as the securest way of an approach to something new and unexplored.

Whewwww!! wow…..did I lose anyone on that one?

Sidenote:

My business mentor Karl Gibbons of Third Eye Management is one of the most inspirational people I have had the privilege to meet, brought to my attention that I had a huge problem with a 1000 pound gorilla on my back to which he referred to as “Sid”, who was holding me back from my wants , my dreams, my goals and more importantly…..myself….

“Oh yeah? and just who might Sid be?” I asked defensively…..and in his English accent he replied by saying “Note this”

“It’s really quite simple”,  as he jotted down these initials, “S.I.D. is Self Inflicted Doubt, and if you don’t get him off your back or at least reduce him to an echo you are always going to hold yourself back from what you know you are able to accomplish”

This statement changed my life and I have accomplished more in the last 2 1/2 years than I have in the last 10….

Mindset…..The Zone!

Is when you are able to get to that point of total commitment and are able to shut out everything around you

that you actually become one with your work, and when this happens viewers of your art, weather it be on canvas, walls, sculpture, glass, teaching, gardening, carving, calligraphy, photography, accounting…..yes, even  accountants have that “zone” that they must be in because they are about perfection which is why I stress the point that in some way, shape, or form everyone is an artist…….

We we’re fortunate to have so much light bouncing around the room  that I knew this would be the perfect technique for the twin niches that are at the entry directly across from the set of columns that you had seen in my previous post

Now before you think you have this finish all figured out and are ready to give it a shot on guessing what it is I must tell you that you only have 3 shots to get it right

So for the second part of this little contest of mine I will send you a hint to the colors and the layers of the application and I will give the first 3 people who get it right or close to it, will get The Plaster for Niches DVD a $49.95 value

Free!

But once again you must leave a comment and sign up below to get your “hint” sent to you via email.

information will be sent to you on where to send your answers after you sign up

that way you can be notified when the

contest ends January 15th, 2011

Remember not to leave your answer on the comment page You will get an email address along with a hint to the finish to send your answers to

Good Luck!