Transforming Plastic to Stone

On September 16, 2013 I shared the new hanging lantern in the breakfast room and I said I would share how I painted the ceiling medallion, but I never did. Oops.  So a little more than a year later I will show you now.

You can buy ceiling medallions at your big box stores or at a lighting store like I did. They aren't very expensive depending on how large and how much detail is on them. This is an old photo so that is why the stuff on the wall is different.

I purchased one without a lot of detail since it was going in our casual breakfast room. You could get a much more intricate one for a more formal space.

I usually work on my kitchen counter with a drop cloth down.

You don't always have to hang a ceiling medallion, but we had to since there were holes from moving the light over. The medallion was a much easier fix than having the dry wall replaced and painted.

I don't really have a step by step tutorial, but I did a mix of colors using these paints. I just play around with colors until I get the look I want. I wanted it to look kind of like stone.

I believe I painted French Linen all over it first and then brushed Old White over that, but leaving some of the French Linen showing.

I painted over the detailed part with Graphite to give it depth and then back over it with the French Linen and some Old White leaving the Graphite showing in the crevices.

 I dry brushed some Graphite here and there for more depth. I love how it turned out and I do think it looks like stone.

This is what it looks like today.

If it hadn't turned out like I wanted I would have just started over with more paint. 

That's the beauty of paint!

 This is the first medallion I painted in 2011 in the dining room. You can see how I painted it here.

Happy Thursday!

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