Thank you for attending our Liquid Shadow Seminar with Kerry Trout

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Kerry_Trout: Here is another example of patterned background. I painted this key on a copy of an old letter.

Kerry_Trout: I wanted the key to ‘hang’ away from the background, and not make it appear to lay flat against it. So this means my shadow has to be lower and further to the right to achieve this illusion. I did not want to wing it and just paint on the shadow, so knew I had to duplicate the key.
Kerry_Trout: To do this, I traced the painted key and ribbon onto tracing paper.

Kerry_Trout: Then I placed this tracing on top of my painting, and positioned it to the lower right of my painted key. It is important to use see-through tracing paper to position the pattern properly. In this case, it is also critical to make the two keys parallel.

Kerry_Trout: Here is my painting after I applied the guidelines for the pattern. I erased much of the lines to make them more obscure. This is because the Liquid Shadow would seal in the graphite from the paper and they would later show. Shadows don’t have outlines, so be sure to erase yours as much as needed.

Kerry_Trout: Here is the shadowed painting. I brushed on the Liquid Shadow with a small flat shader (in this case a size 2), and simply brushed over the entire shadow with my mop brush.
Kerry_Trout: See how the lettering shows through the shadow? By the way, I tinted this shadow with Burnt Umber. And this is the correct color of my background. My scanner seemed to wash out the color from my previous pictures.
Kerry_Trout: Here I painted a rose against a lavender faux finish. I tinted the Liquid Shadow with Royal Purple, and added some glaze to thin it.

Brenda-OK: *
Kerry_Trout: Here is a technique we use often in our faux finishing business, and it’s with the help of a stencil.

June-NC: *
Kerry_Trout: On faux-finished walls, we add decorative friezes -- either around the top of the walls or at chair rail height.
Kerry_Trout: To make this look dimensional, we traced around a stencil, and then highlighted the upper left “raised” areas. Then we apply Liquid Shadow to the lower right, and the frieze takes on a dimensional look.
Kerry_Trout: On this wall mural I painted a topiary against a Tuscany stucco wall. Liquid Shadow as used to create a cast shadow to the right of the topiary, and under the windowsills.

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