COLOUR WASHES - COLOUR GLAZES
FRESCO, DRAGS & STRIÉS

 

Nicola Thwaites Specialist Decorating & Colour Consulting, London, UK, offers a range of broken colour effects. One of the most popular is the colour glaze or colour wash, the application of a tinted layer to a coloured base. Glazes can also be brushed and textured. Dragging, for example, is the elegant, two-tone pattern created by dragging a brush through wet glaze to create fine vertical lines. It was popular in Georgian interiors, which favored painted doors, window casements and panels. Dragging, finished with varnish, can even provide a soft, antique effect practical enough for today’s kitchen cupboards and cabinets. Nicola Thwaites Specialist Decorating offers a range of traditional paint finishes for period interior decoration, including marbling, wood graining, stone blocking, gilding, fresco, decorative painting, painted plaster, dragging, and colour washes. Feel free to contact us to discuss your specialist decorating needs.

 

Clockwise: Colour wash in Georgian interior; Blue cross strié; Rustic fresco; Vibrant colour glaze in stairwell