Welcome to your one stop educational resource center for professional faux finishers. The Faux industry is an incredibly rewarding and lucrative career path to embark upon. We are here to help you with all of your faux educational requirements. Please take advantage of our resources to find faux classes that perfectly suit your needs. Feel free to browse through our tutorials, “how tos”, and engage in comprehensive forum discussions.

This site was built with the intention of inspiring artists to participate. With your participation, and only with your participation we will be able to reach our ultimate goal of establishing a monumental on-line resource for faux finishers and muralists in a non-competive environment. Too often in the scramble to reach success we become self involved and forget the benefits of community. Sharing the knowledge that we acquire as individuals with a group of like minded people only helps the faux finishing industry grow. Learn to faux finish.com believes in freely sharing knowledge and information in the hopes that together we can grow as artisans.

Faux finishing and decorative painting is one of the hottest trends and fastest growing markets. As faux finishing and decorative painting steadily increases in popularity more techniques are added to the gallery of options available for this art. Feel free to browse our tutorials and instructional How To's for step by step information on the most recent faux techniques or contribute your own techniques and How To's here and recieve FREE exposure for your business. Just submit your how to's and we'll include credit to you by adding a link to your email and website.  Please include sample pictures of your work.

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John Pugh has created more than 200 murals and is considered to be the leading proponent, authority, and practitioner of Narrative Illusionism, a term coined to describe his particular mural style. This full-color collection showcases Pugh's most famous pieces, discusses how he revitalized the trompe l'oeil ("trick of the eye") genre into a vital mode of artistic expression, and illuminates the artist's creative process from sketch to finished mural. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

The House that Faux Built will showcase before-and-after photos of a show-house in Arlington, VA and a church/rectory, Church of the Atonement, in Chicago, IL. We wanted to have a living, working project that will inspire, educate and provide a forum for all the exciting, innovative, up to date renovation possibilities utilizing materials and methods that are state-of-the-art.