Austin School of Faux Finishes

While you're here, have a look at our new "4 Day Intensive" Platinum class, available to the Faux Finisher in 2009, but with even more of the new "Platinum" line products, including Venetian Plasters, Marmorino and Tadelakt. We've hired an instructor for our Anglo Artist class on "Construction Site Spanish", and we're adding that this Summer.

Our classes do run full with only six to eight students at a time, and our productions are beautiful. So, choose a class and find the most exquisite interior wall products in the world. Or just ask us to install your finishes and expect only the best.

A When you're ready to make that step into expert Faux Finisher, I hope you'll consider my amazing "Lui G Look" class. This first ever Saturday class features the delicate Antique Oriental Silk finish, the Traditional Glazed Marmorino and the Historic Aged Italian Marmorino finish.

US Green Builders continue requesting American Clay, so you can also sign up for that exceptional two day class with a sample focus on rounded corners.

Our Hill Country Decorative Artists association is now an arm of IDAL National. Our meetings bring Faux Finishers from the whole of Texas, as well as here in Austin together to share our newest designs and ideas. Students and Professionals attend our meetings. We'll be featured at the IDAL Show this year in Memphis with some of our special Platinum finishes.

We've never given up our dream of touring Italy. Milan, Italy awaits us in 09, so we need to plan our trip this year. We will want to have a class and take some day trips in the Tuscany area of central Italy out of Lucca. We hope you'll join us as we want to take fifteen students on this very exciting trip.

We have completed a major installation at the Cool River Custom Homebuilders 2009 Parade of Homes with a Kyoto Fireplace, American Clay Loma Great Room, Hall and Stairs, Pearl Strie in the Master Bathroom Ceiling Inset, and a Koruku Game Room here in Austin, soon viewable on the Interior Production page. I hope you'll have a look at our new "Class Information" page for additional descriptions of our old favorites as well as our newest classes.

Our school is located in the East Wing of the Design Center of Austin at Penn Field. We sit up on a hill by the old 1940's Penn Field Water Tower, on the east side of Congress, just a block south of St. Edwards University. Penn Field was the original airport in Austin, Texas, built by old men and Boy Scouts, since all healthy men were fighting during WWI. Here in the heart of downtown Austin's "Soco" district, we're surrounded by Artists and European Imports worthy of your home. Our open concept is accessible to other wonderful interior retail spaces including Architerra Tile, Alexander Marchant Hardware and Architectural Lighting, and much more including our courtyard and pool.

Our main class is focused on the Old World European Finishes of Mediterranean Stucco, Roman Piazzo, French Country, Venetian Plaster, Marmorino, and a Tuscany Glaze with products from Italy, Japan, Canada, and the America's. We've added classes in Metals & Pearls, SkimStone for concrete, Furniture & Cabinet Finishes, and now featuring classes in the new "Platinum" products from Modern Masters. Also featured is our American Clay class with Loma and Porcelina finishes. All of our classes feature Terms, Tools and Techniques allowing you to create sample boards of the highest quality. We are geared to insure the conveyance of clear information, hands-on expertise and a comfort level required by homeowners and career enthusiasts alike. You will receive the appropriate Austin School of Faux Finishes class book, chocked full of quick reference material and ideas as well as beautiful samples you create and a highly respected graduation certificate. (See Classes Page)

For the first time in Austin, we have available for your purchase a full line of European Plasters, pigments and paints, Green Planet Paint, American Clay, Glazes, Metals, Sealants and Tools including the Modern Masters full line of imported "Platinum" products, Adicolor imported Italian Plasters, Skimstone concrete finish, Polyvine Acrylic Pigments, Waxes & Glaze, Color-all and Platinum S.O.B. pigments, Italian Universal Pigments, as well as excellent Cheesecloth. (See Products Page)

Continuing with the Lui G Faux reputation, we enjoy our work and so take pride in creating European Plaster and other Decorative Art for you. No job is too large or too small with a bevy of "graduate students" and "professional faux artists" available and at your service. We trust you will consider us when you're ready for that beautiful European touch. We bid competitively and install exquisitely under Lu' s professional and experienced direction. (See Interior Productions Page)