This comes to our palette from two sources – the neo-classical palaces, such as the Fontainebleau Palace and in Schloss Charlottenburg in Potsdam, and from the villages around Provence where countless artists have been inspired by the colors of painted furniture, shutters and doors.

Old fashioned roses and the color of old plaster. This is a soft pale pink with a hint of brown in it so the pink is not too sweet.

The inspiration is the rich glowing yellow is the color associated with the town of Arles in the South of France. It is a rich yellow ochre with a hint of orange juice and with with Old White added the color is warm and gentle. It replaces the quieter Sienna Yellow and is new to the Annie Sloan palette.

5hrs of training using ASCP products. Training includes a brief history on the BRILLIANT Annie Sloan, how to choose a brush, color combinations, 4 basic finishes, and applying wax.

Lunch and small project for you to practice your painting skills on as well as a day filled with fun and laughter are included!

Our workshop sizes are kept small to ensure that all participants questions are answered and each person leaves feeling confident and secure ready to paint. We strongly encourage early registration due to the limited number of spaces.

This is a hands on workshop please dress accordingly.

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PLEASE NOTE: Workshops are non refundable

The color is named and designed after the beautiful deep grey blue found on the classic 18th and 19th century Aubusson rugs from France. It is an elegant color that works well with many colors as it is a dark neutral but in particular it works with Paris Grey. It is also a color found in Scandinavian painted furniture.

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An elegant greyed green, this is the color found in French woodwork.

This is a putty color using greenish raw umber, and is a really useful color. It ‘s terrific on its own and with white as in the chair pictured here, or for distressing as a top coat with Cream or Scandinavian Pink underneath. It is generally seen as a more rustic color good for a country look rather than the chateau.
Another way to use it is to mix it into another color such as Chateau Grey or Duck Egg Blue to make them paler and knocked back.

A soft pale warm creamy yellow the color of clotted cream. We suggest you use it under Paris Grey or of course on its own perhaps with Old White on edgings and details.

A greenish soft blue reminiscent of Rococo French and Swedish interiors. It looks wonderful and fresh with Old White. We also love it distressed when it is used over Chateau Grey. Have a look at our vintage bedhead too below to see how great it looks over Louis Blue.

A warm soft aubergine color with pink red undertones giving a rich complexity that makes beautiful sophisticated lilac tones when Old White is added. It is a color that adds a contemporary facet to the palette being a color used by the Charleson artists as well as a color used by Robert Adam in the 18th century after visiting Pompeii.

This a bright pure red like the red silk lining of a jacket, because of the way it looks we love it used as a interior of a cupboard or drawer. It is named after the red of China.

Graphite is a soft black made with purplish blues and brown and is not completely black. When waxed it becomes a beautiful black like dark slate.

This is a warm blue without any green in it. It is a color found throughout the Mediterranean, often faded and distressed on shutters and woodwork. It has a chalky look about it yet it is a strong positive color.

A beautiful rich complex pink with a hint of lilac. It’s a sophisticated color used in its full strength but with Old White added it stays an interesting color and without being too ‘cupcake’.

A pretty pastel Madame de Pompadour blue works particularly well when waxed with a dark brown.

Old Orche is a soft warm neutral that can be dark waxed to make the color of old French painted woodwork.

Like deep Parma violets or blue lavender it is a wonderful 18th century color used for coloring the inside of furniture- like the lining of a jacket – or for using with as the base with Paris Grey on top and distressed ‘ It is of course wonderful used as just on its own as here on this old desk. I have painted the interior red with Emperor’s Silk but it could have been painted with Duck Egg Blue for a more toned land cooler effect.

The color of chalk and gesso, a soft white without pink or yellow in it. A color which works with everything but for the quintessential French look use it over Paris Grey.
We also suggest adding it to the other colors to make them the exact tone for your room.

This is a beautiful sophisticated warm grey taupe with a great deal of depth, made by mixing two complementary colors, purple and yellow with white.

This is a soft and slightly bluish grey, and is the color most associated with painted furniture in an elegant French chateau and of an old Swedish manor house.

It works like a dream with Old White of course but it looks great distressed over the lavender blue of Old Violet and one of our other favorites is Paris Grey over Cream or for something a little stronger try it over Arles!

Add a touch of gilding, and the look is complete.

Pour lids are wonderful to keep your paint clean.

Deep red ochre is a color found in practically every culture from Venetian palaces to Vietnamese temples. Red earths were plentiful and relatively easy to come by so the color is often associated with the color for priming furniture and as the base coat for gilding. It is a wonderful color on its own or as a base for other colors particularly when distressing.

Blue green shutters in the South of France are the inspiration for this color. Set against walls of any of the whites. Provence needs light and bright fabrics with a Mediterranean and seaside feel. Other paint colors that work with Provence also need to have the same freshness and strength. Of course a cupboard painted Provence looks great against a wall of Old White.

With this book in one hand and a brush in the other, you can learn how to create different finishes and effects with paint to change everyday rooms and furnishings into something special, all for the price of a pot of paint. The first section of the book tells you everything you need to know before you start – how to prepare surfaces properly, choose the right paint for the right place, use the best tools and select a colour scheme that will work with the room in question. Then, the 50 different techniques are divided into nine sections: colour washing; distressing and aging; fabric effects; wood effects; stone effects; metallic effects; stencilling and printing; stripes, checks, and spots; and, varnishing and glazing. There are step-by-step photos showing how to achieve the finished look, backed up by inspirational photos showing the effect used on walls and doors, furniture and floors. Learn how to bring old second-hand furniture bang up to date, or how to give modern pieces a softly aged appearance, as well as ways to treat and transform floorboards, doors and plastered walls, all with the aid of a pot of paint and a brush. Whatever the style of your interiors, “Quick and Easy Paint Transformations” will show you the best way to makeover your home.

One of the traditional colors found in much Swedish furniture we use it underneath and as a color for interiors of cupboards and drawers.

Find it used in combination in the Traditional Swedish Palette.

Soft delicate lightly yellowed dusky green that is sophisticated and gentle yet it works well with modern pieces too. This is a color which picks up other colors well and changes character accordingly. With Louis Blue, lightened Henrietta, Cream, Original and Old Whites it looks back to the French court of Versailles but with Provence, Duck Egg Blue and Coco it is a sassy modern color.