contractors creating custom faux stone walls?
I have used latex based paints one base paints and two minor paints bright paint and several ocean sponges. used you base paint as the main coverdabbed with a sponge can lighten the paint if you want and then two colorsover base dabbed in random pattern. Now use the light colored piant with a long flight feather randomly twisting and rotating and dragging the feather across the painted surface. This is not a perfection thing if you ever have noticed marble has flaws and comes in many colors so have fun practicing. Look at some different marbles and use those colors.
Try hyperturfa (there are several sites with different formulas). Essentially, hyperturfa is a mixture of Portland cement, sifted peat, and one or two other substances from sand to the more lightweight perlite and/or vermiculite (the stuff horticulturists use in their potting soil), and/or silica (which helps give a finer texture). It is lightweight, depending upon your formula. You can purchase molds (moulds), or, make your own. I'm cheap :D, so I make molds out of old milk jugs that I have reshaped through heating in the oven or over a fire (I place them over a stone and they melt to the shape), or I make stone-shaped hollows in dirt or sand, and line (or not line, depending on my project) with plastic. When stiff but still workable, I make my finishing touches (smoothing out lines, adding texture, etc.) Individual stones can be affixed using more hyperturfa or regular cement/mortar. Standard concrete colorants and acid stains work, but I prefer natural colorants -- I use rusty water, coffee, tea, vinegar that has had steel wool fermenting for a few days, berry juices, etc. If using as a stucco or intend to create brick lines, or stone work it is advisable to use some sort of backing (chicken wire, etc.) as you would stucco or straight cement/mortar. (Although, I did apply a sand-based hyperturfa directly over unpainted, untreated raw concrete foundation blocks with no problem.) If this is not exactly what you are looking for.and if you do find what you are looking for.I'd certainly appreciate a heads up.
