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 Projects and Workshop information can be found here at www.tuststudio.com
Where We Started
Michael started the business in 1988 doing interior painting. In 1993 he attended The Paperhanging Institute in New Jersey. This 2 month course was over 350 hours of installing most wallcoverings made. In 1995 he expanded to include decorative painting, his wife Laura joined him in the company.
Michael and Laura have studied under some of the most respected artists in the world, such as: JoAnne Day, George Zaffle, Bill Holgate, Pierre le Fumat, Mike Mac Neil, Nicola Vigini, Pierre Finkelestein, Gale Laurence and in France under Yannick Guegan for several months.
Michael's specialties include Woodgraining, Marbleizing, Custom Interior painting, Wallcovering Installation, Tromp l'oeil, Murals and Decorative Plasters. Laura's specialties include Color Consultation, Wall Finishes, Gilding, Furniture Finishes and Stenciling.
Publicity
Their artistic adventures have been very successful. They received three separate segments on the Discovery Channel show "The Fix-it Line", which was nationally syndicated, where they had the opportunity to discuss and demonstrate topics on Faux Finishing, Wallcovering, and Paint. They have also been in the San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Weekly and the Oklahoma News for projects they have worked on.
Today
Although Michael and Laura have been trained by many of the most respected Decorative Artists in the world, they continue to keep up on the latest products available for decorative painting. They are committed to perfecting their skills in the industry. Their combined experience of 32 years in the Decorative Painting field, offers you the client, the opportunity to see your ideas and visions come to life on walls, ceiling, doors and all other surfaces you can imagine.
About the Galleries
Woodgraining: The art of woodgraining has been around for hundreds of years. The quality of work being so well done you could not tell that it was painted. The art of woodgraing can take an item be it a door, mantle, baseboard or even furniture and make it look like its wood even if it did not start out that way. This art form also makes it possible to match white painted doors to custom cabinetry and much more. All the pictures of the woods in this gallery are hand painted wood on masonite. These are not pictures of stained wood, but hand painted works of art done on simple masonite like you find at home improvement stores. Woodgraining is a dying art, for most just making something a wood color, woodgraining is fooling the eye to believe it is actually real wood.
Marbleizing: Like the woodgraining gallery these are all hand painted marbles, done on thin sheets of styrene plastic or masonite. This art form can be seen mostly through out Europe and Italy. Everything in the marble gallery has been done in waterbase mediums and hand drawn with brushes. You think of master painters and their works of art. Each one of these panels is a work of art in itself down to the tromp l'oiel 3 dimensional moulding. |
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