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How To Faux Paint 1-2-3 Steps
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The Woolie LARGE (REAL Sheepskin) Pad Creates Many, Many Different Faux Paint Techniques Using Paint or Faux Glaze.
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You have Total Control To Create Your Desired Look.
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Washes Quickly. Extra-Large, (9.75 x 5 inches) VERY Lightweight and Ergonomic for Easy Use.
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Use for Color-Meshing, Marbling, Glazing, Color Wash, Dragging, Strie, Linen, Denim, Leather, Stippling, Clouds.
1-2-3-Faux!
Instruction Steps
Using The Woolie Original Faux Painting Pad
If you have never faux finished with The Woolie Faux Painting Tools and Techniques, view our detailed step-by-step instruction videos to ensure your delight and success.
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When you approach an edge, corner or ceiling line. (That has been protected by masking tape prior to painting)
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Spread the glaze along the edges of the masking tape using a small paint brush to ensure consistent results.
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Next, blend with The Woolie, The MINI Woolie, or The Little Woolie.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not reapply glaze once your prior area begins to dry. This will create an undesirable effect.
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It very important that you apply masking tape to protect your woodwork and ceiling lines BEFORE you begin painting.
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Refer to the Room Preparation Instructions. This can be found further down on this page.
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Always blend edges, corners and ceiling lines at the same time you are using the roller. Do NOT wait to do this until the end to blend these areas.
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This Next Section Provides
Additional Resources and
Helpful Information
For This Faux Painting Technique
If you have never faux finished with The Woolie,
view our detailed step-by-step instruction videos to
ensure your delight and success.
This faux painting technique requires the use of faux finish glaze.
What is a faux finish glaze?
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Glaze is simply a thin, translucent film of color that is applied over a base coat of a satin finish painted surface. Glaze creates a rich, dimension in many faux and decorative paint techniques.
What does faux finish glaze do?
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Paint normally dries very quickly. Faux glaze slows down the drying time of paint which gives you more time to manipulate your color to create the look you want. It also makes paint colors translucent to enable you to create the look of depth and texture illusion.
What Kind of Glaze?
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Water-based glazes and paints are the easiest to work with and to clean up.
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You can buy glazes that are already tinted, or you can mix up your own custom glaze color.
How do I mix my own glaze?
Mix Faux Glaze (clear colorless) with your chosen paint color.
Combine clear (no color) faux glazing medium with your paint (either latex or acrylic). Generally the ratio is four parts glaze to one part paint, but you should follow the manufacturer's instructions.
Test your glaze mixture on a scrap board or poster board to make sure it's the right consistency and translucency.
Due to their nature, latex glazes can be customized to suit your needs.
The amount of glazing medium you add to the paint can affect the color of the glaze. When you're using lighter paint colors, a 4-to-1 mixture will not affect the value of the color.
But darker colors may be altered to a lighter color value when mixed with too much glaze. It's always best to experiment with the color on a piece of poster board.
The translucency of the glaze is determined by how much paint you add: more paint than glaze results in less translucency; less paint than glaze results in more translucency.
The more clear glaze that is added the longer that your glaze mixture will stay wet.
The more paint that is added the sooner that your glaze mixture will dry.
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When using the 2-Color Roller, use 1 light color and 1 dark color.
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These colors should be approximately 3 to 4 shades apart on a paint fan deck.
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If you wish to increase the illusion of texture, choose your colors 4 to 6 shades apart instead of the standard 3 to 4 shades.
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You can also decrease the illusion of texture by choosing colors 2 to 3 shades apart.
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These recommendations are general guidelines and should be used as such. You can become more creative with experimentation and sampling of colors.
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Color Combination Samples
| Ideas | Examples | Inspiration |
The fact is that it's really very difficult to visualize paint color combinations. That's exactly why we offer many color and technique inspiration ideas and samples for your paint projects.
View our color samples to see what inspires you. This is a great first step! Next, play with the colors and blending to get your customized look.
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