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This is one of those upstairs short walls beside the stairway. Not much of a feature space, not somewhere you'd hang a bunch of pictures, and liable to get dinged up by passing dog traffic. It is next to the owner's home office, though, and since she works from home half the time making it a thrill instead of an 'oh well' was a high impact project.
Even more fun for those of us who like applying goop with a trowel, she really likes earthy, textural, gritty, stoney, deliciously dirt-like faux finishes. Yippee! And she said 'go for it!' ... do whatever fun earthy, textural, gritty, stoney, deliciously dirt-like faux finish rocked our boat. Oh happy days!
So, after all that not-so-fun preparation stuff (which you just gotta do, no 2 ways about it. Sigh.) the first couple of layers were some nice crunchy Versaplast of a couple of different shades.
Then the next day was cut-loose day, spirals ahoy. Painting these in a wash, building up the color density to have this neat pottery-like / carbon and bark depth of browns and black. Great contrast, eh?
And a final wash making one end darker yet, with lots of nice dribbly bits running between the grit. Mmmm, yum!
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