Faux Painting Out Dated?
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Painting Faux Brick Paneling... Ideas?
Comments (11)If you google for whitewash brick and other variations of that, instructions come up with a lot of suggestions and pictures. Frankly, some of them look awful, IMO. It's hard to achieve a balanced look that isn't blotchy. A lot depends on the porosity of the brick, I'm sure. One of the links I found suggested using tinted latex stain but offered no pictures or specific directions. Even using a tan color for your wash will look white or almost white against the dark brick and mortar, but next to the white trim you should see it isn't really white. I can picture the room with a softened brick look but don't know how to achieve it without a lot of trial - and probably error! And it's such a large amount of square footage to cover, you want consistency in your technique or the walls will all look different. I'd spend some time searching online and youtube for specifics. Let us know how it goes....See MoreFaux Tile Painting on backsplash???
Comments (6)It's very, very easy. Get some very thin masking tape (it comes in all sorts of teeny-tiny sizes at a good art supply store) and tape off all your grout lines first. The basecoat color UNDER your masking tape will be the grout color, so if you want that to be different than wahatever it is now, paint and let the paint cure before doing the rest. Then tape it off, and paint or sponge away. If you are a complete novice, then the easiest of many ways to make the tiles themselves is probably sponging. One way is to have a few paint trays (say, three or four) with a different color in each. Then start sponging and experimenting till you get the look you want. Pell of the masking and it's beautiful! After it cures, you can varnish or seal it so it's very scrubbable! I have done lots of backsplashes-- they are wonderful and easy! Colorwise, you can find a sample of slate and pull colors from the other things in your room and subtly work them in! Slate has a ton of variety and is extremely forgiving to paint!...See MoreHow to faux finish a painting?
Comments (26)FM, I am glad to hear you are interested in decorative painting, it is a lot of fun and can be learned. You can choose to use patterns or not, the patterns are meant to be guides. I too am a self-taught painter and for the record the book you have is a very good one because it covers everything you need to know about any project from start to finish with loads of other info on tools, techniques, and finishes. The projects in that book would be a very good place to start. I have so many brands of paint but like Luvs said I choose the paint for the project I am working on. But as far as none being like oils....There are mediums you can add to acrylic to make them act like oils and FolkArts HD paint works very much like oils without using any mediums. I started painting with oils back in the day and switched to acrylics over the years. The beauty of acrylics is that they can be acrylics but can also act as watercolors or oils...very versatile. Besides the links that Belle gave there are lots of other painting sites with free patterns, projects, video tutorials and more, way too many to list here but you might enjoy the projects on the following sites... http://www.paintingonjars.com/freepat.html http://www.loew-cornell.com/decorative-painting-pages-53.php?page=0 And my favorite link to various artists who will sometimes have a project or two on their site: http://links.tolefriends.com/acrylart.html I buy the majority of my books on-line and very rarely pay more than $2-$3 a book. My favorite sources are... http://www.viking-publications.com/ (they change their sale about every other month) http://www.decorativepaintingstore.com//store_tole_decorative_painting/index.php?cPath=1&osCsid=763625bd590fb27b54187aa78c9c3f74 http://www.painting-books.com/ and artist club, in that order. Have fun painting! Don't forget to show us pics....See MoreTips for Painting a Picture Frame Faux Gold?
Comments (8)I finished painting the frame last night and it looks great! After a fruitless hunt for Sophisticated Finishes at my local Michael's and being scared of all the caution info on the liquid gilding product, what I purchased were three colors of Martha Stewart craft paint: a medium brown in satin finish, metallic gold and metallic yellow-gold. Using a natural sea sponge, I applied the brown first and let it dry. Then I went over the frame with both of the golds, pretty much blending them together. It looks just as I'd hoped--like it's always been gold, and like it's old. It's propped up on my buffet with three or four pictures in vintage frames that I haven't hung up yet (we've only been here 2.5 years) and it looks right at home among them. I love it when a project actually turns out to be easier than I feared :)...See Morestu2900
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