Artistic Paint: Walls with the Warmth of the Hand

A hand-applied artistic plaster wall. The surface is not uniformly flat, but has extremely subtle cloud-like variations in depth and traces of trowel direction, with a slightly sandy, granular texture, completely matte and light-absorbing. The color is a grayish warm beige or light ochre, with extremely low saturation, presenting different layers under varying light and angles. This wall is very large—five meters high and eight meters wide, with no divisions or hung paintings, so the subtle variations created by hand become the sole content, offering texture up close and a quiet color surface from afar. Grazing light reveals the layers of trowel marks. Avoid: using the texture of flat latex paint, making the wall completely uniform without variation, using high-saturation colors, adding divisions and decorations to the wall.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面手工施作的藝術塗料牆。表面不是均勻的平塗,而是有極為細微的雲狀深淺變化與抹刀的方向痕跡,質地略帶砂質的顆粒感,完全霧面吸光。顏色是帶灰的暖米或淺赭,飽和度極低,在不同的光線與角度下呈現不同的層次。這面牆的面積很大——通高五米、寬八米,完全沒有分割與掛畫,因此手工造成的微妙變化成為唯一的內容,近看有質地、遠看是一片安靜的色面。掠射的光讓抹痕的層次浮現。避免:使用平塗的乳膠漆質感、讓牆面完全均勻無變化、使用高彩度的顏色、在牆上加入分割與裝飾。