| Urban Arthaus: Window Treatment |
| Plain vinyl window shades get a stenciled treatment. |
From "Fresh Coat"
episode DFCT-211 |
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Window shades go from dull to designer as this urban-gallery living space transformation moves closer to completion.
Materials (roller shade):perforated-vinyl roller shades
pencil
string
pushpins
metal straightedges
tape measure
medium and small paintbrushes
stencil
stencil brushes
spray bottle and paper towels
tape
tape corners
Golden Acrylic paint, Lamp Black
Benjamin Moore paints: #2112-20, Brown Sugar; #06, Dove White 1. The new shades (figure A) are painted with old-fashioned 3, 2, 1 film-countdown graphics. Shannon Kaye and crew determine where on the first shade they want the graphic to be placed and, as before with the mirror, draw circles using the pushpin, string and pencil. To draw smaller circles, the string is rolled around the pencil to the desired width and secured in place with tape (figure B) (figure C).
2. The circle is divided into quadrants (figure D).3. Using small artist's brushes, Shannon applies Brown Sugar paint to the exterior circle; Dove White paint is used to fill in alternating circle quadrants. 4. A stencil of the number 3 is taped in the center of the circle (figure E).
5. A stippling brush is dipped in Golden Acrylic Lamp Black paint, blotted on paper toweling to remove excess paint and pounced over the stencil (hold the stencil in place while pouncing to prevent paint bleed) (figure F).6. The process is repeated for numbers 1 and 2 on the additional two room shades (figure G).
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