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Faux Painting Tips
Steps (Basic Overview)
- Prep
the wall before you paint it.
- Paint
the wall a solid color. This will be your background color.
- Allow
the paint to dry for at least 4 hours, or overnight.
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Select an acrylic paint color that contrasts nicely with the
background color.
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Prepare and tint a glaze with the acrylic paint you've chosen to
create your desired glaze color.
- Pour
the tinted glaze into a roller tray.
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Decide what type of faux finish you'd like for the room. Sponging
and ragging on are the easiest to
do and
are best for bumpy or irregular walls; dragging and stippling are more
difficult and require
a smooth wall
surface.
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Practice the technique you've chosen on a painted piece of cardboard
or wood until you're able to
produce the desired effect.
- Apply
the tinted glaze to the wall using the materials and technique
appropriate to the faux finish
you've selected.
Tips
- It's
important to use a glaze specifically designed for faux finishes it
helps provide a sense of
translucence and
depth, flat paints just look flat.
- Try
one of the easier techniques such as sponging or ragging on if this
is your first faux painting project.
Glazes
- Glazes are slightly
different than paints.
- Unmixed, un-tinted
glazes are transparent.
- They also dry much
slower than paint.
- Purchase your glaze
from at least a mid-range quality.
- Glazes are used in most
faux finishes and faux techniques because of their unique
characteristics.
- Glaze’s slow drying
time allows the surface to be “worked”, to be given texture and
pattern.
- Glaze’s translucency
contributes to an appearance of depth and texture, heightening a
faux
finish’s appeal.
- Glaze can be colored in
one of two ways, most home improvement and paint stores now offer to
“tint” your glaze at the
store, adding the necessary pigmentation without your intervention. The
second method of tinting glaze is to
hand mix paint with the glaze mixture.
- Most manufacturers
suggest mixing one quart of the desired color of paint with one
gallon of glaze,
though you should read
the instructions for tinting the particular brand of glaze you purchase.
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