BROKEN COLOUR EFFECTS
COLOUR WASHES, FRESCOS, DRAGS & STRIÉS

 

Nicola Thwaites Specialist Decorating, London, UK, offers a range of decorative broken colour effects include dragging, cross strié, stippling, frescoing and colour washes or glazes. A colour wash or colour glaze is essentially paint thinned with spirits or water and applied to a neutral or coloured base. It can be scumbled, brushed, and manipulated to create textures, patterns, and various degrees of translucency. Colour washes and colour glazes can also be used for antiquing and for tweaking a base colour. Though based in London, Nicola Thwaites Specialist Decorating also works regionally in UK.

 

 

 

Pictures clockwise: Colour glazes layered to create rich apricot colour, Blue cross strié, Rustic fresco, Dragging (vertical pattern created by dragging a brush through wet glaze)