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Annie Sloan of Oxford, England is a real person who has a world-wide distribution of the paint that she invented. Trained at university in classical fine arts, and having been an accomplished interior designer, Annie came up with her paint because she wanted to have an easy to use paint that mixed colors easily for refurbishing and decorating.
Most of the commercial paints are very troublesome to use and the colors don’t really mix very well at all, coming out in a very muddy result. Annie, with her fine arts background, where of course mixing paints to complete an project is a normal as breathing figured that there must be a better way.
So the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint line was born and the result was a paint that needed no stripping, no sanding and which could be applied to just about anything very easily.
This is where the store (called stockists by Annie Sloan) comes in where the proprietor, Virginia Weathers by who has been a professional paint designer for the past 15 years felt that the Annie Sloan line was just what she was looking for. She saw that the fine art training that had propelled Annie Sloan, gave the results of the finished products just as advertised.
The paint can be placed on just about any surface, including varnished and waxed pieces. There is no surface preparation needed at all, which cut the time that it takes to finish projects to a minimum.
With such a versatile paint the impossible become possible at a fraction of the time and pieces can be transformed into wonders in a really jiffy. This is why Annie Sloan says that the paint is a “Girl’s paint,” but that it’s OK for the boys to use it as well.
So the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Jackson MS branch has gotten off to a roaring start with all of the Annie Sloan varieties in stock as well as the workshops and classes available to teach all of the best designs, applications and techniques.
People will learn how to apply the paint, the proper way to let it dry and cure, techniques in painting different surfaces, ways and types of distressing techniques. peeling paint techniques, how to apply the waxes and the things that they do, sealing and caring for your piece once it is done, and much more.
Annie Sloan is choosy with whom she wants to have as a stockist, and the proprietors are heavily screened and interviewed. To say that it is a great opportunity is certainly an understatement, with all of Annie Sloan’s worldwide reputation and the lightning speed of how well it does on remaking all kinds of furniture and interiors.
All A person has to do is take one of the workshops that Virginia Weathers by teaches and they will be hooked. The processes are so simple, yet so effective, it is a wonder this concept was not thought of sooner. People in Mississippi are certainly glad that the Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Jackson MS branch has come to be, as now there can be a great renovation of dressers, chairs, bed stands and rooms in Jackson.
