The Marrakesh Express is leaving once again this May for a fabulous painting adventure to Peacock Pavilions in exotic Morocco. This will be the third trip to this intoxicating country where we will enjoy the warm hospitality of our lovely ...
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My good friend, Barb Skivington, has undeniably one of the loveliest decorative finishing teaching studios in the whole country-Faux Works Studio in High Point, NC. Besides a state-of-the-art studio area, it also includes an elegant showroom full of interesting decorative ...
Read More »Modello by Design Volume 2: Part 2
Here are some more inspiring images from the forthcoming Modello by Design-Inspiring Images from Artist’s Portfolios, Part 2. These are all from a talented single artist-Rita Melnick. A beautiful frieze using TransBor116 Modified panels. Lovely Art Deco, lined leaves with ModAll111 ...
Read More »Modello by Design Volume 2: Part 1
Back in June, 2008 we published the first edition of Modello by Design-Inspiring Images from Artist’s Portfolios. Featuring the work of 80 different decorative artisans using our Modello patterns, this book has become a definitive resource tool for ideas, inspiration, ...
Read More »Modello, Me, and Miami at HD Boutique
Well, everything arrived in one piece for the Modello Designs booth at the HD Boutique Show (other than all the things that still needed to be assembled on site. that is), and after two days of sweating in an un-air conditioned convention ...
Read More »Moroccan Stencils at HD Boutique
This coming September 14-15, Modello Designs will be displaying at a booth at the HD Boutique in Miami for the first time. I’m very excited!! Our Modello Decorative Masking Patterns have been used before in hotel projects: The Grand Del Mar ...
Read More »Mia Pratt of Old Pratt Studios Loves Stencils
Can I gloat? Just for a few minutes?!? Please? No, seriously, I recently received a long letter and a series of photos that really just “nails it” as to what I have tried to create and achieve for the decorative finishing ...
Read More »Modello Stencil Patterns at the Lesic Dimitri Palace
Have you been harboring a burning, yearning desire to take an extended journey to exotic Croatia? Yeah, me neither. That is, until I saw the website for the newly renovated Lesic Dimitri Palace turned boutique hotel in Korcula, Croatia. You ...
Read More »Stencil Star: Raina Gentry’s Textured Patterns
I just love the work of Raina Gentry of Raintree Studios, and not just because she has taken decorative finishing classes with me and also now uses our Modello Decorative Painting Stencil Patterns as a basis for most of her mixed ...
Read More »Contribute Projects to Modello by Design
Last June we published our very first Modello by Design book, Inspiring Interiors from Artist’s Portfolios, Volume 1. When I put the call out for our customers to submit professional quality photos of their decorative painting projects using our Modello ...
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