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Valspar ups the game in colourants
Valspar’s new Hydrochroma colourant technology delivers deep, vibrant colours with advanced fade resistance and all in a totally solvent-free, 100% water-based formula containing less than 1g of VOCs per litre that’s been formulated for enhanced compatibility and performance in acrylic paints. As well as offering superior opacity, better drying times and improved colour blocking, Valspar
says that Hydrochroma’s broad range of deep, vibrant colours for exteriors fills the gap that has existed generally in the exterior colour spectrum, so saturated reds, yellows and orange are now available thanks to Valspar’s double strength, extremely durable colourants.
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Mark Grieve and HiLo Decorating not only took out 2020’s New Zealand Master Painter of the Year award but also five other categories to boot! At the other end of the experience scale, Chelsey Froese is the 2020 Master Painters New Zealand Resene Apprentice Painter of the Year.
dressed. Features are carefully picked out in appropriate hues encouraging the eyes on a colour journey.
“A definite crowd pleaser, the hues warm up the audience and create a sense of anticipation for the performance that lies ahead.
“Well deserving of a standing ovation!”
This project uses Resene Vanquish, Resene Merlot, Resene Eighth Pearl Lusta, Resene Half Pearl Lusta, Resene Triple Pearl Lusta, Resene Gum Leaf, Resene Canterbury Clay, Resene Quarter Canterbury Clay, Resene Half Gum Leaf and Resene Carnaby Tan.
With a virtual plethora of other categories and colour also part of the Resene Total Colour Awards, we will post a link on our website so you can see the work of the other category winners.
WHO ARE THIS YEAR’S MASTER PAINTERS?
Those who apply the paint as opposed to those who design the paint scheme were also recognized at last month’s New Zealand Master Painter Awards when Queenstown painters took out two of the premier awards.
Master Painters NZ member, Mark Grieve from HiLo Decorating in Queenstown, was named New Zealand Master Painter of the Year for 2020, also taking out 2020’s Residential
Master Painter of the Year award and the Wallcoverings Applicator of the Year award.
On top of these plaudits, HiLo Decorating also won four individual categories at the awards: New Interior Residential Less Than $25,000; Rework Interior Residential Contemporary Home; New Residential Wallcoverings; and Rework Residential Wallcoverings.
“‘A little paint, colour and passion can reinvent any surface,’ says Resene. What couldn’t change however was the series of restrictions brought about by Covid-19”
“Mark Grieve’s portfolio was some of the best quality decorating work the judges had ever seen,” says Master Painters NZ’s Brian Miller.
Also from Queenstown and also celebrated at the New Zealand Master Painter Awards last month, Chelsey Froese was named Master Painters New Zealand Resene Apprentice Painter of the Year.
Representing the Lower South Island, Chelsey was competing with three other young New Zealand painting and decorating
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