I often get to collaborate with clients and with designers, but I recently had the opportunity to also work with another decorative painter – which was a lot of fun!
As part of a large office space renovation (the same office space I did the “sketch” murals for), the designer and the client decided that for a number of the accent walls throughout the space, they wanted them painted with an ombre finish. The company’s color is orange – so the concept was to create a gradation in tones of orange to create an eye-catching but soft and pleasing look for several of the (very) large walls throughout the space.
The challenge was scheduling. Due to the many moving pieces in this large renovation and the hard deadline for the business to move in – the deadline on the ombre walls was tight! My friend Joan was called in as the decorative painter to get this work done, but because of the tight schedule, she called me in to help!
Since I usually work alone, it was a nice treat to work with a crew of people. Joan has another painter on her team, Rich, who prepped the walls for us and painted stripes of 4 of the different shades of orange to give us a good base to work with for the ombre. Joan and I then moved through with 8 (!) shades of orange to help create a soft blend.
To make things efficient with the many colors we were using, my job was to go through first on the bottoms of the walls, blending from the white at the bottom up to the 5th darkest color. Joan then followed and blended from the top down to my darkest color.
Not only did this process do the trick in terms of meeting the deadline, we also hit the mark for the look the client wanted! Each day the customer walked by drew another compliment – my favorite of which was that he wanted to hug the walls!
Following are some shots of the final result. Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Jason