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10 CALL Lit Rumia
faux-finish painter:
would be a bit of a

‘faux pas. Her painting tech-
Jiques are subtie and refi ned
“as elegant as faded old —
lace and as elusive as the
lustre of well-worn pearls,

After training with Italian and ©
“Polish masters in Toronto, and at
San Francisco and New York art
schools, Lil has practised and
refined her techniques over many
years. a ‘

For the most luxurious finishes
‘she creates layer upon layer — up
“to thirteen coats — of paint; glaze
and stains; working mostly with
-Jatex paint. One of her specialties
is furniture, restored to bring back

“the original finish, or “antiqued”
with an Old World finish.

Recently, Lil has applied her
talents‘and artist's training most-

- dy to walls, treating them like

Paint technique
livens interiors

large canvases.
The finished wail surfaces
evoke memories of ancient rock.

-worn by many seasons of wind,

rain and sun:.They have that old

‘and faded look which would pro-

voke some to install new drywail

“and inspire others to spend many.

many hours trying to achieve the
effect.

- Soine of the walls radiate sunny
warmth, others have a deep lus-
trous glow of red. touched with
gold.

The color of a wall washed with
the greyed blue-green of eucalyptus
leaves, finished with a layer of
Renaissance gold and a final coat
of umber is difficult to define, But
it would work wonderfully with
deep green, floor-length velvet cur-
tains and touches of gold and
cream in the decor.

- Here are some of the techniques
Rumi uses for “color washing.”

This is a deceptively casy way
to give walls depth and color that
glows — faintly by candlelight and
luminously in the sunshine. ;

‘To start with, fill and sand all
cracks and nailholes. Then prepare
the wall with one coat of cream—
colored acrylic eggshell primer.
The basic recipe for each subse-

- quent coat culls for one part latex

color, one part water, and one part
of Benjamin Moore’s Floetrol for
latex, mixed thoroughly, (The

See Paint page 4 5

FOR A FREE ESTIMATE °
CALL 254-9236.
1357 Powell St, Vancouver, B.C. >

“COLOR WASHING”
gives walls depth and
color that glows. Faux-

finish painting can

also be applied to fur-
niture to. give::pieces ~
warecold World finish.

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