"It's All Goop To Me", our unofficial T-shirts. It kind of is. Thicker than paint. May carry gritty things, shimmers or sparkles. Trowelled on, usually. Some groovy wondrous properties
After being deluged with information from many different classes & new product lines we've come up with a few favourites. OK, quite a few.
Luscious, interior use, vertical or horizontal. The same goop we'd use for the venetian plaster effect, used to trap a variety of other shimmery glazes & mixes, topped off with a beautiful stain and you've got a wonderfully rich organic surface.
Concrete. Sigh. Such wonderful stuff.
This one has a 3D stencil. You can really do pretty much anything with it, though. Skip-trowel for an olde worldey look, stains, oxidizers, embed glass, tiles, or porcelain. Sculpt. Any colors.
I think this one would look great on a courtyard wall, use the stencil as a border along the top, or frame some panels. Build some shelves first then integrate them, alternate some niches in bright orange or something.
Mermaids in a fountain pool? Koi & lilys down the garden path? Dinosaurs in the swimming pool?
 
Authentic Italian lime plasters are a lot of work, but very satisfying. They conglomerate and set into a stone-like finish in the months after they've been put up. Completely green-Earth-friendly, etc. The fireplace one we carved back into & tinted the top veilcace layer to look like travertine. The other we used in a Gold Coast bathroom with a "Morrocan" theme. It looked great against the smoky blue tile.
These plasters are the kind of thing we drool over while applying. Very tactile to use, hunky gritty first layer, solid but smooth 2nd layer, then the last one feels a bit like frosting. A little annoying on the color matching as it dries lighter than it looks in the mix, and darkens up a bit with the wax ... but once we've got the recipe set we're good.
One more for now, then I'm off for a break.
I rave about it, I rave about it ... so here I rave about it again. This stuff is so cool! It's completely eco-friendly, helps keep a balnce of humidity wherever it is (thus, temperature, as well), is sound dampening, and is so easy to put on! It's a seamless cotton-based wall covering. It can go on ceilings, too. Use it in a home theater & get the sound dampening as well as sparkly bits. Do a dark blue one with gold & silver micas for a midnight sky in one of those tray ceiling things. It runs about $10/sq foot installed. Do the bathroom and you'll be able to see yourself in the mirror even when someone's in the shower.
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