PAINT AND DECORATE
A site devoted to Painting and Decorating Techniques
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SPECIALIST DECORATOR
Hand painted signs, furniture and murals.
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Keith-Marbling Plector-Just Funny Robert-Colour Washing Russ-Puttying, Paperhanging & Others Nobby-Acrylic Marbling Gill-Terebine, Whiting Natasha-Lime Wash Sharon-NVQ Questions N.Watts-Mural Painting Ian-Painting Gyproc Coving Noel-Turpentine Tara-Scumble
Robert's Question
Hello Fred, one of your former students here, have you got any good tips for Colour Washing? I have been asked by a friend about it but could not help. The only place I could think of was your web page, hope you don't mind. All the best Robbie.
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Colour Washing is one of the more simpler decorative techniques but it is so often misinterpreted. The finish is normally applied to walls over a matt emulsion base, colour of your own chose. Choose another emulsion colour and mix with about the same amount of water. Take a large wall or flat brush, dampened, and dip into the thinned emulsion, to about half an inch up the bristles only, shake and apply in criss-cross strokes. The trick, if you can call it that, is not to have too much thinned emulsion on the brush as the colour will run and you must start from the top of the wall and work your way down.