I'm so glad this was posted... even a year later it is helpful! I want to imitate this faux finish on a small section of a wall in my house and this video was very helpful. I'll be using other colors to compliment the theme I'm going for but I've never done any kind of faux finish before and seeing how this is done has helped me put things into perspective. Once again, much appreciated!

You can use a veneer plaster like One Coat, or you can use a 20 or 40 minute mix and do smaller sections at a time. Don't mix more then you can comfortably carve before it sets too hard. If you're not sure of the adhesion, you can use a plaster bonder (which often looks like white glue), then plaster over that when it gets tacky. Then the next day after it's dry apply a PVA sealer, then paint & finish. Greg

Thankyou for posting this. I don't know if I will use this for my current project but I can really appreciate a business owner like yourself taking the time to explain your technique and in such a high quality video.

You are very welcome. Get some scraps of drywall, and practice on them first, then do several color combination samples as well. You'll get the hang of it.

Thanks Andrew. Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful.

I am going to try this technique on a plaster pot. Thanks for sharing!

Well done! Enjoyed your technique very much.

Sqiwamjon, I'm glad you found it useful! Greg

Ken, You are very welcome. I show a few other techniques in this other You Tube video titled : "Unique Environments - New iron railings w/ furniture compo, hosted by Greg Abramowitz" Happy projects!

hi,very,very nice faux job. you gave me some great ideas,thanks,ken

I like how you do t give any details on time or materials

You can use plaster only on interior surfaces. On surfaces where adhesion is questionable, use bonder (which is similar to Elmers white glue). Wait until the bonder is tacky, then apply the plaster.

Love it! Now what's next...tile painting perhaps?!

Is there a version for exterior application? What type of "plaster" would survive winter weather? (I guess it might be be stucco wall type material?) I'd like to do for vertical faces of a couple of front concrete steps .

omg that looks like real stone!!!!!

Thanks for the kids words Conrad! Greg

Regular plaster will not properly adhere to wood; it needs lath. What did you use here?

Thanks, the area Im to plaster is the basement concert wall. I want it shape the plaster to look like stone or cobble wall. I will try what you said, thanks again.

Your project looks amazing! I want to do something like this in my bathroom around my tub. Will it hold up in a room like that with all the moisture from the shower and bath water? Should I put some extra type of coating to avoid moisture build-up?

Hi Greg, great video. Very useful for a novice like me. Your faux outdoor granite also looks stunning. I am building a small outdoor nook and wanted to install a real granite but its weight and my lower back pain is does not allow me to. Would you be so kind to point me out to the right outdoor mix. Thanks!

Trying to figure out how to restrain my old rock pattern that was created using stucco over block foundation?

That was cool!

Great job! What type of surfaces can you plaster over?

I am about to do something similar to a small wall and I want it to look like dark black/grey slate. any tips on which color should be my base and which colors should be sponged/dry brushed?

Love it

thank u sir i like to learn something from u

Just what I'm looking for! Went to homedepot.com and put in "plaster". Here are my choices: "plaster of Paris", "Joint Compound" "Fix it all Patching Compound". Which do I use? Thanks!

nice thecnique i will try on custom painting for motorbikes and helmets...thanks for sharing

what materials did you used to make it ????

Where do you purchase these tint colors??

the work needs to be finer than that and smaller areas at a time in order to get a really authentic look. If you slap on a load of plaster in large areas, you dont get enough time to do it properly before it dries. Once dried, its too late to make it good.

How does this same application do outdoors?

Shoot with more light.

Dang!

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What are the name colors you used please

It looked better in the before.

What kind of paint is being used?

the inreresting one you dont use rubber stemple.

I worked on movie and TV sets for 11 years , I worked at Universal, MGM, Sony, Fox, and at Paramount Studios for 6 years straight. I'm going to be honest with you Greg, the art directors that I worked for would not be happy with what you presented in this video. The faux implies that what you created actually looks like something. What you do would be rightly called decorative painting it doesn't have to look like anything it just has to make the customer happy. And you probably know that customers can be talked into just about anything if you just act like you know what your talking about. I am not trying to be mean but if one of my crew did what you did he would be doing it over. One time I went to see a job a friend was doing on a very expensive house in Santa Barbara and he showed me a sample of what he had talked the customer into letting him do on the walls in the dinning room. I took my friend out to the garage where they were storing there paints and stuff. Their was a 5 gallon bucket that they had been spinning their brushes in to clean them. The side of that bucket looked exactly like the sample he showed me. One of the things that we did in Hollywood was get a lot of research photos so we would have something to work from. Once we had to do a set that was an exact replica of the inside of the New York City waterworks. It was an old brick building filled with water in the bottom. there were about 80,000 bricks to paint so with a 4 level scaffold to guys per level we painted every brick individually with sponges. If you would like to see the set rent Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman. the only way we could be sure to get it right was to have photos. We sent a photographer to New York to take a whole bunch of pictures. Don't give up get better, your texture did not look like any stone I have ever seen.

since rock is the most abundant material on the planet, why not use real rocks

Ken, You are very welcome. I show a few other techniques in this other You Tube video titled : "Unique Environments - New iron railings w/ furniture compo, hosted by Greg Abramowitz" Happy projects!