Snake Skin Finishes

Recently, I had the opportunity to create a Snake Skin finish for one of my clients. Now, I am absolutely petrified of snakes… can barely even look at a photo of one, so the snake skin finish I did was metallic silver. I did this finish on a beverage refrigerator for a client. You can see more pics and read about it here.

At first I thought I would purchase a snake skin stencil for this project, so I did a little research. I will warn you right here and now, that I certainly will be promoting the use of Julie’s wonderful website, stencilsearch.com. This is a site I have been using for years and find invaluable. So, my first stop was right over to that site, typing in the keywords “snake skin“. Lo and behold, some options appeared. One stencil was too expensive for this project and another was not quite what I was looking for.

Next, I decided to check out what others were doing for Snake Skin Finishes and did a Google search. Try that Google search and you will see quite a variety of Snake Skin finishes created on just about everything! A great find for me, when I did this search, was to run across decorative painter, Regina Garay’s blog. Regina and her crew recently did a much more elaborate snake skin project, which she features on her blog. Regina’s work is amazing and I have added her to my blogroll!