PAINTED PLASTER - STIPPLE & WIPE

Stipple and wipe is a specialist decorating technique that can be applied to ornamental plasterwork. One of several decorative painting techniques offered by Nicola Thwaites Specialist Decorating - stipple and wipe can be used to breathe life into new or replacement plasterwork and in the restoration of historic interiors to revive original ornament that has lost definition through years of overpainting. Stippling entails a delicate build up of coloured glaze with a brush, and wiping reveals the contours below. Nicola Thwaites Specialist Decorating offers marbling, wood graining, stone blocking, gilding, fresco, decorative painting, and broken colour effects (e.g., dragging, colour wash, and cross strié).

From left:  Gilded and painted Jacobean frieze; stipple & wipe on plaster; restored plasterwork