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Hi all,
I had just received this newsletter from my friends at Architexture and had to share this with everyone. I know Gaia Calcaterra and the whole Architexture staff work very hard to support all who have these very special projects and once again they stepped up to the plate to help yet another artist friend of mine in Ocala Florida, Bobby Pesare of Timeless World Design….

To view this newsletter click on the link directly below “Having trouble viewing this email” …..Yo, Bobby!!!!!!

imagine                     design                    create ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL TATTOOWALL by Bobby Pesare Timeless World Design BEFORE AFTER How was this beautiful prayer room achieved? THE PROJECT DESCRIBED BY BOBBY PESARE OF TIMELESS WORLD DESIGN Quick Links Take a Course Tattoowall Urbantattoo Image Gallery Projects Sample Kits Order Online What is Tattoowall? It is a method of color transfer that was originally created to reproduce murals, frescoes, and trompe l’ oeils and artwork. Tattoowall is not like traditional wallpaper. It is the direct transfer of color onto walls or ceilings. What is Urbantattoo? It is an avant garde printing process, that makes it possible to print any image onto any surface. These  include, but are not limited to tile, aluminum,fabric, wood, glass, blinds, mosaic, parquet floors etc. “THE STORY GOES LIKE THIS….I WAS DOING SOME WORK AT A DOCTORS HOME. THE HOME WAS COMING IN A BIT OVER 8 MILLION, JUST A BEAUTIFUL HOME. I WAS DOING SOME MATCHING OF THEIR CUSTOM CABINETS AND VENEZIANO ON SOME CEILINGS WITH GOLD LEAF. THE FAMILY WAS FROM INDIA & WAS OF MUSLIM FAITH. THE HOME  WAS BUILT WITH TRADITIONAL MUSLIM FEATURES (DOORWAYS & ARCHES THAT COME TO A POINT, A PRAYER ROOM BUILT INSIDE THE HOME & LOTS OF OTHER TRADITIONAL MID-EASTERN FEATURES).” ” I HAD JUST PURCHASED MY FIRST PROJECTOR,  AND HAD RECENTLY COMPLETED MY ARCHITEXTURE TATTOOWALL CERTIFICATION COURSE. BOTH SIDES OF THEIR PRAYER ROOM HAD A MOCK CUT-OUT OF A TYPICAL MUSLIM WINDOW.   I THOUGHT  HOW AWESOME IT WOULD BE TO PUT A TATTOOWALL OF A WINDOW FROM A FAMOUS MOSQUE IN THERE. I WENT HOME & DOWNLOADED SOME GREAT PICTURES OF SOME VERY COLORFUL & WONDERFUL IMAGES OF THE WINDOWS THE NEXT DAY I SET UP MY LAPTOP & PROJECTOR, AND PROJECTED  THE IMAGES ONTO THE PROPOSED SPACE. THE OWNER WALKED INTO THE HOUSE, TOOK ONE LOOK AT MY IDEA , AND SHE TURNED TO ME & SAID…”YOU CAN DO THAT?” , I SAID “YES I CAN”.   SHE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY  & CALLED HER HUSBAND, SAID SOMETHING IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE, HANGS UP & SAYS “DO IT!!!!” I FOUND THE IMAGE ONLINE,  SO I WROTE THE OWNER OF THE PHOTO & ASKED HIS PERMISSION TO USE IT.  HE WAS VERY EXCITED AND SENT ME WRITTEN COPYRIGHT APPROVAL.” “THE PROJECT WAS A LITTLE COMPLEX BECAUSE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ANGLES AND MATCHING A CONTUINING GEOMETRIC PATTERN.   I WOULD HAVE NEVER FELT COMFORTABLE DOING THIS COMPLEX OF A PROJECT WITHOUT TAKING THE CLASS FIRST….NO WAY. GAIA , MICHAEL & DAISY WERE A GREAT SUPPORT AND WERE THERE FOR ME EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. WHEN IT CAME TO THE GRAPHICS, BRIAN WAS OFF THE SCALE AND  GREAT TO WORK WITH. WE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS WELL INTO THE NIGHT ABOUT HOW TO OVERCOME SOME OF THE OBSTACLES.” “OVERALL IT WAS A GREAT PROJECT FROM CONCEPT TO COMPLETION.  THE CLIENT ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT.  THE BEST PART WAS IT WAS A GREAT UP SELL ON A PROJECT I WAS ALREADY WORKING ON. I AM VERY HAPPY TO HAVE THIS ADDITIONAL TOOL IN MY TOOLBOX OF FINISHES. HAPPY TATTOOING!! ” -BOBBY PESARE, TIMELESSWORLDDESIGN.COM, OCALA FL. 352-812-4433 Architexture would like to congratulate Bobby Pesare on a perfectly executed application! For Tattoowall Applications Contact: Bobby Pesare at Timeless World Designs 352.812.4433 www.timelessworlddesign.com Would you like to learn how to apply Tattoowall murals? click here to join one of our Tattoowall application courses. LAST WEEK TO SIGN UP FOR THE FORT LAUDERDALE COURSE! Click here to register online. Dates: Thursday March 4th and Friday March 5th Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Location: Art Serve Address: 1350 East Sunrise Blvd Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304 954 907 8000 www.myarchitexture.com info@myarchitexture.com po box 2095 / fort lauderdale / florida 33301

We are finally in and are now getting ready for the opening!

Yes I know, the construction delays have been horrendous to say the least, but as of a couple of weeks ago they gave me the “O.K.”

So now I will work as hard as I can to regain some of the lost time.

This weekend was very productive for me because I was able to get the basis of the new studio mural project started, and I must say for an old guy I even impressed myself and was able to get all of the trompe loeil architecture features laid out on this 20′ x 14′ wall and the first coat of base paint applied. I am going to blog this with progress posts to document the procedure for my current and future clients so they can get familiar with some of the steps involved

Being that I limited the space on the reception area to only a small area in order to have as much working studio space as possible, I had already planned to create the illusion of  space through the use of trompe loeil and landscape murals. The east and west walls will adorn more trompe loeil in the form of marble and wood panels with some ornamental designs.

As you can see there are a few problem areas that have to be worked into the concept which is really no problem at all once you have a plan of attack, but in this case I am working on the fly with this because I have no time to spend on renderings if I plan to be open by the end of March.

I work well under pressure and sometimes I even amaze myself when I have to be creative in situations like these. Two of the problems like the return air vent and the double doors leading into the class room I have already remedied and will hide these within the mural project. The A.C. duct I am still thinking about. The “kick plates” are really an eye sore but I am not allowed to paint these ……but now that I think about it they didnt say anything about removing it though lol

Being that its tight quarters I am forced to do the best I can with the Sony camera I have to get the shots necessary shots to show the progress.

Tomorrow I plant to get the color and over glaze done accomplished so I can move on to the trompe loeil…….

It seems I just cant get away from the trompe loeil work for hand painted furniture, but you know I love this kind of work especially when I have the time available to do my own thing. I was introduced to yet another Interior Designer from one of my vast array of contacts that I have built up over the last couple of years as a result of  my “Gonzo Networking” as I like to call it named so after one of my favorite writers Hunter S. Thompson who was a well known author and a controversial journalist of the 60’s on up until his demise a couple of years back. This type of networking just proves  that you should do this everyday no matter what  shortfalls the economic conditions throw at us, but I will go into these kind of things on my new blog that I am getting ready to launch on marketing for artist as well as some ways to make some additional income during times like these

But for now here’s couple of pics of a hand painted furniture piece with some ornamental trompe loeil in a french country style

The design and layout was all hand painted with an orange gold metalic to compliment the french blue

This is a better shot to get an idea of the kind of depth that can be created with a simple design and a little trompe loeil

I personally like hand painting projects like these because of the authentic look you end up with.  It gives the piece a much higher quality end result than using a stencil design. It’s Not that there’s anything wrong with stencils I just prefer  not to use them on furniture which gives you the freedom of designing your own unique touch

With the opening of the new studio simple techniques such as this one will be taught at the new location in Bonita Springs. I have just received the Certificate of Occupancy and am in the process of getting everything in order to have a nice opening , Sign up for our newsletter to keep updated on all of our events that will be coming very quickly

I thought I would post the final results of the recent cabinet faux finish that I completed last week. As you all know my favorite kind of finish and art is trompe leoil and I will always jump at the chance of painting it no matter how challenging the design. The lay out and design comes pretty easy to me being that I have studied most of this in school during all my drafting and blue print making days. All my perspective education was taught in my younger years in school and was one of the first things we learned in art classes was the importance one point, two point, atmospheric perspective and many more.

At 12 years old I designed and built my very first gun cabinet for my grandfather and at 13 I built a grandfather clock for my mother out of cherry they were both bigger than I was lol

Being that we had no money for college and coming from a hard working blue collar family I soaked up every ounce of education that was offered to me through school until I finally had to go to work at 16, and I am still that way today

Of course I am not 16 any longer but I do crave knowledge and learning and at this point of my life I find myself teaching more and more of what I have learned over the last 30 plus years.

So with that being said I am in the process of opening a new studio in Bonita Springs Fl which is will be an open working studio but I will also be having classes of many different art forms from decorative to fine art and may even have some sculpting and carving classes. At any rate there will be lots of fun and activity at the location with not only Art-Faux Designs but also with other businesses in the building working under a coop situation

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Oh yeah! I love this combination!

Even though the current trends of today

are on modern and contemporary designs where there doesn’t seem to be a lot of the traditional  or

“Old World Faux”

There is a combination of the two in what seems to be a new trend that I have seen coming into play as of late to where

Interior Designers are combining the two where the old meets the new

So in order to experiment with this combination, a friend of mine Craig Lebeau of Studio West in Naples Fl had a cabinet built to see what we could come up with to reflect this combination where

“Old Meets The New”

Now these are only the progress pictures that I have so far but as you can see the cabinet has straight sharp lines as in the modern/contemporary look, but with some old world embellishments this prototype is really starting to take on a characteristic all its own and actually  has a very unique look.

If this finish looks familiar to most of you, well you are correct. It is my

“Trompe Loeil Foil”

finish which I developed not long ago that keeps on selling and selling and selling…….

As a matter of fact I still have this finish available on DVD in my

“How to Faux” “Amazing Accents”

video series on the upper right of this page or by

this link here

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