Colorwashing

BossMaker

I agree. All of the homes that are going up in our area (KBHomes, Lennar etc ...) (Southern Ca.) are using wallpaper instead of fauxs in the models. People see them, then want it up in their home also.

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charliesap

This is the easiest way. I too have been hammering my head trying to figure it out with no one to show me. You will have success....

Base coat your wall in a satin, glaze doesn't go on flat, take a big wrung out car wash sponge, dip it into your glaze and polish the wall like you are waxing a car. Then take your colorwash brush and make x's over it, then stipple the highs and lows. You can use two or three different colors. Base coat, auto sponge wall, take 3 different chip brushes and 3 colored glazes and make bigger squares or x's on top of sponged area then do your x's to blend in the colors. Stipple. You can use as many glazes or none at all as long as your base has a coat of glaze on it with the big soft flat car sponge.

There are many many ways of doing it, but this is what works on the first try.

Good Luck!

MakDeco

Faux's seems to be fading here in Chicago also. I specialize in Stripes and still seems to be going strong here. I always enjoy striping as never thought my faux's looked good after i was done. Color washing I was all right with. But when the lady still asks for sponging I say "what"

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Dr.Hidegood

Best answer yet....."Modern Masters "glaze drys slower than most . Open time on glaze = ease of application & a better looking even job. Color washing by definition is always done with a brush in an X patern or arches. The corners are where most leave tell-tale heavy lines .Shure sign of an amateur. Stay light on the corners until the job is complete then go back & finesse it in.

Danahy

Mark what location is your store? Might have been there once or twice.
As for colour washing for me, it'll be sometimes an office accent wall or something... haven't had much lately though. Depends on what's on city line tv, and last I hear all the girls are on mat-leave...

kbdesigns

If you want an authentic color wash, use lime paint. You might also want to do some research into the history of color washes. For one thing a colorwash is considered a decorative finish, not faux finish.

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jeff w

I do fauxs as a profession. the easy way is with rumple cloth or pre washed cheese cloth. both can be found on the net at the
Perfetto web site. If you do not have experiance at keeping glaze open mail me and I will help you with instructions and reccomendations .my address is speezwink@hotmail.com

jeff w

Be cautiuos about what can be produced on a 3x3 sample board and what can be produced on a much larger scale.

Jeff

thom

I absolutely hate faux. You take a new nicely painted home and make it look old and dirty. I like that crisp, clean, new look.

kbdesigns

Old and dirty? For you to say that, it tells me you have never seen a professionals work or the range of decorative painting. Check this out http://talkfaux.com/forum/index.php?action=gallery

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Da Vinci

The only dark to light colorwash I like to do is a terra cotta style wash. Put a nice terra cotta base and wash over the top with an off white and a little umber her and there. Gives a really nice "saltillo" tile look.


Bob
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qdslse

Nathan I would love to write an article on colorwashing. There are many types of glazes available with various types of applicators with each giving a different result. I have been faux finishing for over ten years and I do have my favorites.

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kbdesigns

nice finishes.

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evelien

Hi mark, if you have time, do lots of very thin washes. Bit of color, bit of blend-'n'-glaze, water. You can do about 3 layers on one day (once I did 4 rooms in a week). After that, it needs drying. It's time consuming but looked very nice.

Good luck, Evelien

evelien

Hi Jenn,

if you work with warm colors (browns, reds, orange etc) work dark over light.

If you glaze blues/violets, add some white to finishing glazes. Neutrals become stony when you do that (light over dark.

good luck, Evelien

Plaster Ayn

Our whole marketing line is that "faux" is out and real textures are in. Real textures meaning fine interior plasters. As a professional, I dropped ragging and glazing in place of hand troweled finsihes years ago. Why? Very simple. $$$$$ You aren't going to sell a glazed powder room for $3000. Same time making the sample boards, same prep, same number of times touching the wall. Of course there is training involved but there is training involved in faux finishing too.

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evelien

Try yellow ochre (a yellow stone or earth color) and warm brown (color pigment name: burnt siena). First yellow ochre, then burnt siena. They will get an orange glow when you wash them on white. Good luck, evelien

evelien

When you do warm colors, start light and put on ever darker colors. If you find them too warm or warm glowing, put lighter colors (brown mixed with white) over them.

Bye, Evelien

evelien

Hi,

anyone tried spraying yet, for color glazing or washing?


I haven't tried it myself, but next time I'll consider spraying (with a manual spraypump, like the kind of flask with a glass cleaner in it). You get pumps like that in the art store too (a spraycan that is manually put unter pressure). If you put very thin watery paint in it, you can spray mists of color. The underground must be a strong sucking-in layer like plaster or cheap latex, otherwise it'll drip down.

If anyone tried this, I'd like to hear about it.

Bye, Evelien