2-Day Luxury Paint Introduction Discover the beauty of Italian Luxury paints
This Italian decorative paints course will teach you how to create stunning feature walls and ceilings using metallic, iridescent, or pearly paints, ranging from smooth and velvety to textured finishes. Participants will also learn how to combine these paints to achieve stunning effects. Over the 2-day course, you'll discover techniques to replicate high-end wallpaper looks, and apply textured metallic paints to create striking accent walls.
Our Master Applicator will ensure you can address any on-site imperfections or challenges.
Like our other courses, the Italian decorative paint training covers both contemporary and traditional Italian and British application methods and effects, with a special focus on creating metallic features and combining them with Venetian plasters.
Is this course right for me?
We have designed this course with the time and experience of our applicators in mind. We know it can be difficult to get time off work in order to train. We also know that many applicators that already work with our products, may not need more than a crash course on this type of product. This may be due to previous experience with other types of Metallic paints.
The intention of this course is to cover a variety of finishes within the 2 days.
If this sounds like the course you need, feel free to take a look at it on the link below.
Why train with Impera Italia?
At Impera Italia, we pride ourselves in providing a complete service. Having permanent facilities and a highly trained and reliable team. We work around the clock to help applicators and end users achieve their decorating goals. By training with us, you are not only learning from a genuine applicator that has been in the industry for a minimum of 8 years, actively carrying out projects and developing their own skills, but you also benefit from:
- Support from a technical team 5 days a week, from 8am to 5pm.
- Access to our library of custom colours for use in your own projects.
- A 10% discount on material for a minimum of one year, as well as a 5% discount on tools.
- A 15% discount for materials (Not tools) specifically on course dates.
- Expert advise and guidance on new materials, as well as access to an instant selection of over 100 different products.
- Our showroom, a space to bring any clients or designers. Use our samples and resources, colour charts in order to help your clients in the decision making process.
We always go above and beyond for our customers, we know that projects are never as straightforward as we want them to be, but we will do everything we can to make your projects smoother and try to minimize disruptions to your workflow.
Course Overview
01 Course Content
The course starts at 9:00 am and finishes approx. 3:00 pm. This will depend on how fast everyone is able to get through the materials, whilst making sure that the knowledge is being absorbed.
The following 5 key areas will be covered.
A. Finishes
- Sioloc & Sioloc Suede
Smooth Metallic Feature Paint (Demo for multi-coloured two-tonal effect)
- Lime Eco & Samba
Colour Wash Paint
- Tintoretto
Matt, Venetian Plaster inspired Metallic Paint
- Marcopolo & Marcopolo Sable
Textured Metallic Paints
- Gimcyn, Gimcyn Luxury & Gimcyn Chroma
Fine, gritty Metallic Textured Paints (Demo for multi-coloured two-tonal effect)
B. Other products
- Atomo
Primer for porous surfaces
- Primer
Smooth & Textured
- Protectors
Impera Matt & Decorfilm (Gloss or Matt)
C. Repairs, Surface Preparation and After-care
- How to handle and repair accidental damages.
- How to properly assess, prepare any substrate for Decorative Italian paint.
- How to calculate Decorative Italian paint material.
- How to change the effect/look.
- How to deal with small or large projects.
- How to maintain and clean Decorative Italian paints.
- ‘What can go wrong’.
D. Tools
- Selection and maintenance
E. Working with Colours and Colouring
- Manual and industrial colouring, colour resistance and colour ability of the decorative coat.
02 On the day
- Arrival for the course is at 10am. Once everyone is ready to begin, we will begin with a short introduction between ourselves, where we learn a little about what we have done in the past, and get to know each others names. Courses are a great place to network!
- This will be followed by a brief description of some of the finishes in our showroom. We will give you some hints and point out applications that we will be discussing in the course, later on in the day.
- The next step, will be to head to the training centre, where we will begin to go through the different Metallic paints finishes. Applying them on boards, discussing potential steps require to correct imperfections, as well as things to avoid before moving on to the next coats, or finish.
- Did we mention that lunch is on us? We work with a lovely Italian Deli nearby where we always do our lunches. Positive reviews all around! Lunch time itself can vary, generally we will aim to go between 12-1pm.
- When returning, we will continue with the rest of the Metallic Paints finishes.
- Finally, we will return to the showroom, take any questions that course attendees may have, as well as provide the opportunity to speak to the sales team about the general flow of purchasing products, as well as making use of our other services, or even booking on to other courses! You will also get the chance to take advantage of the 15% discount we offer on the date of your course (Tools not included), if you wish to take any materials away with you!
- Finally, we will provide you with a signed certificate of attendance, any goodies that were part of the course, then let you make your way! This will typically be around 3:00pm onwards. We try to make sure we answer any outstanding questions. This can sometimes lead the ending to be a little later.