Jelena Pticek's geometric sideboard

For her second Painters in Residence project, Jelena Pticek transformed an old, heavy-looking piece of furniture in to a wonderfully modern piece – using my paint, Chalk Paint®, and a handmade cardboard template.

Jelena applied French Linen – a cool neutral, khaki grey from the Chalk Paint® palette – using one of my Flat Brushes to create a smooth, neutral background that works beautifully with bright, rich colours.

She created her template and began to play around with the size to make certain it worked with the scale of the furniture. Using the template Jelena created the layout of the triangles – outlining each triangle with masking tape.

The new handles that Jelena had sourced for the sideboard inspired the colour palette for the geometric design. Using a palette of: Barcelona Orange, Duck Egg Blue, Antoinette and Scandinavian Pink she painted inside the marked-out triangles – making sure the four colours were spread out evenly across the sideboard.  

To keep things fun inside the cabinet, Jelena painted with Scandinavian Pink. She then finished the piece by removing the masking tape (once the paint was completely dry) and applying my Clear Soft Wax to make the piece really hard-wearing.

 

Yours, Annie

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 Work Book Launch!! 

The party was held at my house

We asked Becky of Becky's Kitchen to cater. 

....then we got talking............................

Edible paint pots:

Classical: Olive tapenade with flatbread brushes (Graphite)

Rococo: White bean, roasted garlic and olive oil, swirled with preserved lemon pesto and Parmesan palmier brushes (Country Grey, Cream, Old White)   
Modern: Pea, mint and broad bean, with crisp cavalo nero brushes  (Antibes, Provence)

 Rococo Bibury smoked trout pate, sweet dill vinegared cucumber inside a chicory leaf

Oxford Blue cheese, local poached quince jewels inside a chicory leaf

Rococo Parmesan Palmiers 

Classical Rare roast beef, horseradish cream, Little Salad Co. watercress on a truffle toast 

Wild mushroom pate quenelles on Parmesan toasts 

Modern Rusty Pig smoked black pudding, local cauliflower puree & cranberry sauce

Lavender & Walnut macaroons 

           

Rustic Ham hock terrine, pickled local kohlrabi and parsley gremolata 

Chunky rosemary oatcakes, Aveton goats’ cheese, seasonal turmeric pickles

  

Quiet Riot & Asian Black Wakame Samosas,  filled with spiced local beetroot and coconut rice 

Makizushi with a variety of fillings

Cranberry and raspberry profiteroles, dipped with dark chocolate 

http://www.facebook.com/beckyskitchenoxford made and created all the delicious and inspiring palettes 

Sabel Gonzales of Studio Blancohttp://studioblanco.co.uk  

took the photos as we were setting up. 

  ANNIE SLOAN WORK BOOK

My Work Book is a sketch book with 3 pockets for your scraps and cuttings, with notes about colour and style and about my paint.  It's a sort of scrapbook/ sketchbook. It was inspired by Tawnya Norton who has a store called C'est Moi' in Tennessee and she sells my paint. She wrote to me one day;

Good Morning Annie, I was wondering if you ever thought of offering a journal. Something people could take notes in at the workshop and jot down ideas and maybe keep color recipes in that they have created even maybe add a place for photo's. I guess I see it has journal and portfolio combined.

I thought this was a great idea

So that's what I did and this is the result. 

Using drawings of a chair leg, I describe different styles of furniture - this one's Rococo. There's also Modern, Classical, Asian and Rustic. I have suggested which colours could be used historically.

There are three pockets for keeping your fabric swatches, cuttings and samples.

There is stuff about colour theory.
Lots of my stockists will be running workshops on colour too.

There's really nice paper that can take paint.  

This is what Amy Chalmers, another of my stockists, of Maison Decor in Boston did in some of her pages!

The Annie Sloan Work Book is only available from my stockists. 

Annie

PS.  When you get your book, start working with it then photograph it and post your pictures on your Pinterest board. Call your board 'Annie Sloan Work Book'.  I'm going to repin the ones I really love on to my boards on Pinterest.

PPS. Thank you very much Tawnya for a terrific idea!