Column Week: Lisa Cameron

Columns are traditionally round but they can also be square and hexagonal.  In fact, square columns are called pilasters.  The Romans are credited with creating pilasters as well as the half columns attached to walls.  When full-figured figures are used as columns they are called Caryatids (female) and Atlantes (male).  I find that so interesting.  Today’s column project interested me greatly as well.  In fact, it was submitted as an idea — the columns had been approved as a project but had not been worked on yet.  Construction timelines pushed the commission back but our feature artist today, Tampa’s Lisa Cameron, was able to share her story and very cool images with us.

Think 1970′s…reminiscent of a time of disco, foreign mystique and  Moroccan-inspired influences.  Now fast forward those elements to today and you have the perfect setting for a design of bold, graphic patterns mixed and matched, interplaying upon one another.  Throw in a designer (with a savvy sense) and a decorative faux painter (who loves color and texture) with a collaboration of ideas, and you have created an essence of design alchemy.

Completed Column — well almost! The painters are slated to finish the bases.

Interior Designer Michelle Wiebe of Interiors by Studio M in Tampa, FL, had the wheels in motion for a 70′s-inspired Moroccan disco entertainment room for her clients.  She needed final touches and sought Lisa Cameron of Faux Painting Design . “Once colors were handed to me, I knew I was going to have fun creating a fantastic faux finish!”, Lisa shares.  In fact, Lisa already had in mind to use a graphic pattern and gold foil for added glam.  She then spoke with Donna Phelps of the Sarasota School of Faux & Architectural Finishing in Sarasota, FL for inspiration and they collaborated on a custom stencil for the column motif.  Once she had her pattern in hand, Lisa went to work.

Metallic Base (above) and Stencil (in blue) wrapped around the columns (below).

The work continues…

Almost there...

Here is a close-up of the truly beautiful pattern that emerged…

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Please hop on over to visit Lisa’s site, Faux Painting Design, and if on Twitter, do follow her tweets.  If you need a custom stencil or an innovative finish, look no further than one of my fave studios, Sarasota School of Faux & Architectural Finishing.  The interior designer, Michelle Wiebe, also has a beautiful site in addition to a very popular blog called m{pression .  She has incredible plans for the room and Lisa Cameron will be sharing completed pictures of the completed space with us.  Can’t wait!  I do hope you enjoyed Column Week and that it provided a bit of inspiration for you.  I’ll be featuring more columns in the future as there are always new techniques and finishes for them.  See you next week!

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DAY 1 – Column Week: Ashlie Bickford, Kindra Benge and Sharon Leichsenring
DAY 2 – Column Week: Arthur Morehead
DAY 3 – Column Week: Mindy Hunt Harrell
DAY 4 – Column Week: Krista Vind and Cindy Everett Smith
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