Faux Finishing

Modern Masters

Modern Masters offers its Metallic Paint as an elegant alternative to ordinary latex paint solutions. It's simple: just substitute ordinary latex paint with one of the beautiful shimmering metallic paints. You need neither artistic talent nor special skills to transform your project from ordinary to extraordinary .

Modern Masters also offers a Venetian Plaster that results in amazing finishes. Modern Masters® Venetian Plaster™ is a tintable acrylic plaster finishing system that can develop a beautiful, highly polished appearance. The applicator can control the sheen level of the finish by simply sanding and burnishing the plaster. Various looks can be created such as polished marble, stone and suede.

McCloskey’s Special Effects

McCloskey’s Special Effects - Faux Finishing Made Easy

Recently, decorative and faux finishes have been featured everywhere from magazines to television and model homes to designer presentations. Special Effects includes many popular and emerging faux techniques as well as all the paints and glazes you need. At Gragg’s, we trust McCloskey products to provide the easy to use faux products that create amazing faux finishes in your home.

For detailed instructions on specific faux finishes, simply click on the technique link below. These pages show how easy it is to faux finish in just a few steps, and include many Pro Secrets on ensuring you get the best quality faux finish each and every time.

• McCloskey's Special Effects Faux Finishing Techniques
• McCloskey's Product Catalog

Polyvine Glazes

Gragg’s Paint represents Polyvine Glazes, including Polyvine Scumble and Contractor Glazes. Polyvine's history of innovation in the decorative paint industry has enabled us to formulate the only acrylic glazes with the same open time as traditional oils.

Scumble (with graphic from link?) Acrylic Scumble is a clear water-based transparent glaze for Decorative Effects. When colored with Polyvine colorizers produces a transparent colored glaze. The wet glaze is applied over painted surfaces and patterned with a tool to produce a wide range of attractive patterns and shades. The colored glaze dries to a durable water-resistant finish which does not age or yellow. Acrylic Scumble is unique in providing up to one hour working time.

Contractor Glaze A transparent glaze to mix with emulsion / latex paint. Produce your finished effects on a test board coated with your chosen basecolour before application. Try the effects with different colours. The Contractor Glaze has a long open time, yet dries flat, and retains the color of the paint – Its perfect for Large Jobs. We at Gragg’s love the unique packaging for this product – a 5 quart pail, filled with 4 quarts of Glaze with room to add up to one quart of latex paint to color the glaze!

Symphony Tools

When it comes to faux finishing, Gragg’s Paint knows the value of selecting the proper tools for your project and quite simply, Symphony Tools are the Best! Symphony has been making fine decorating tools since 1949. Since then, Symphony has well established itself as the leading manufacturer of special effect tools.

Now Professional and do-it-yourself Faux Finishers alike have the confidence in knowing that Symphony has the tools to ensure their success in creating the special effects that are gaining popularity in home decorating today. They also know choosing any other but a fine Symphony Faux Finishing tool would mean settling for less.

Patina Studios

Patina Studios For the best faux finishing instruction in the Kansas City area, Gragg’s Paint recommends Patina Studios. Whether you are looking for information on Marbling, Sponging, Ragging, Frottage, Parchment or Striping techniques, Patina Studios can teach you how to utilize faux finishing to make the interior of your home look awesome!

Patina Studios offers 1,2 and 3 day seminars on all popular faux finish techniques, for more information please visit their website at www.patinastudios.com.