A HOME SHOW!!!

We are proud to be included in the first Home Show of 2008! This great event will be happening on January 11, 12,+ 13 at Farmingdale Community College on route 110 ..We will be demonstrating some of our "Fresco Lime Plaster" techniques as well as displaying many of our unique murals, surface textures , Skimstone Concrete and a few surprises! The show is from 10:00 am till 10:00pm Friday and Saturday and 10:00am till 6:00 pm Sunday. Come see us and find out a little more about our artists, and our company!

Merry Christmas!!!

To all my friends and family, clients, nieghbors and aquaintances....MERRY CHRISTMAS, health and Happy New Year!!! LET"S MAKE 2008 THE BEST EVER!!!

MURALS for the Holdays!!

As the holidays approach quickly, I find I recieve a large amount of phone inquiries for Holiday custom painting, as a decorative artist, Long Island is full og Holiday inspiration, the beach, the EAB building and so much more, I enjoy painting holday murals as much as my year 'round painting, I create handpainted fireplace screens, handpainted glassware, toy boxes, and mural gift certificates make great Holiday gifts.

My new bathroom

Since taking a class over a year ago, with a dear friend and talented artist-Linda Marstellar, I have been very interested in fresco, plasters, and all things Italian. So when remodeling my own bathroom this year, my husband (who also took her class) and I had a vision of decayed fresco walls, and crusty plasters of time gone by we looked to a fabulous book for inspiration. "Domus" was the book we used to try and emulate this look. To achieve these walls we used Travertino and Marmorino Italian Lime plasters from Dimensions in Florida. We custom tinted our plasters with pigments and troweled away! The ceiling is a stencil from Jan Dressler, we used pigment washes and metalics for this. To finish off the look we tinted our wax and rubbed it into the plaster for an overall aged appearance. The result MAGNIFICO!!

A week in Georgia

I spent a week in Georgia learning about the beautiful products from the School of Italian Plasters, we had a small class of 7 people. We spent a week troweling thier lime plasters, and gorgeous synthetic plaster called Veneziano, that shines like glass! We also used a Metalo plaster that had a lovely shimmer to it and dried hard and smooth. These products were stunning! As well as the results of the students walls.. http://www.italianplasters.com/

VOTE TODAY !!

WOW I am so honored!! I have been nominated for Best Artsist on Long Island! The Long Island Press is doing thier annual Best of Long island, so be sure to vote for all your favorites! i am located under the commerce section , in artists! http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=167&show=article&a_id=10245

Suffolk County Water Autority gets a new look!

This building is located at the Gun Club rd intersection and its in a nice , residential area, so the building needed to look nice as well as be functional. The building has 2 large garage bays and a door in the middle that were previously white. I painted them with a decorative "carriage door" look. We used Sherwin Williams exterior grade metal paint in orange and painted the panels a barn red color. the result is very striking from the street!

Flip that house woth faux update

I recieved my copy today of the "flip that house with Faux" book! Filled with great advice on flipping homes for profit, faux techniques as well as info on all the charitable donations made. Check ou the "official" photo of my mural from the book, the installation really makes a difference! http://fauxflip.com/

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My Lucky day!!!

So October 1, should be officially Arlene mcloughlin day!!! I submitted a photo of a mosaic floor I did a while ago to an online Decorative arts contest. Sponsored by Talk Faux, the prize was a very generous package og platser stencils from the very talented and innovative Victoria Larsen. i am proud to say I won the contest by votes from my talented peers and friends! I also had the good fortune of winning a 6 day lime Plaster class from Saffra plasters. I was randomly chosen from a postvard I sent to Doyle, the owner of the School of Italian plasters. What a day!!! Please visit http://www.victorialarsen.com/ to see the fabulous products and schooling these artists have to offer!!http://italianplasters.com/ http://www.joytothehome.com/blog/ http://talkfaux.com