How to Do Decorative Painting

Transcript Today we’re going to be talking about one of the ultimate faux finishes which is copying wood or wood graining. The french call it ‘faux bois’ which means fake wood and it’s something that came into existence a few centuries ago when people were trying to match woods that were possibly imported from lands …

Transcript Hi. My name is Aliya Riaz. I am a decorative artist. And I am completely passionate about decorative finishes, some of which have been around for centuries be they marbling, or wood graining, or applying things that are not really full finishes. But things like Venetian plaster is also something that I really enjoy. …

Transcript Now we’re doing a segment on decorative painting techniques which is about glazing and decorative trim. And you might find some trim like this that I’ve actually base painted. I primed it first and then I have put a metallic paint on top of this in kind of an oyster, mushroomy finish. So as …

Transcript In our series Decorative Painting Techniques, we’re going to explore doing a bamboo technique for which we need some glaze in a caramel color. We need a three or four-inch brush, this is a four-inch brush, and a roller sleeve. So all this would be revealed as to how this gets us to a …

Transcript The last three of four years have seen a real upturn in the demand for metallic finishes, whether they’re metallic plasters or quartz stone, which is, again, a variation of metallic plaster. Some of the thing I’d like to talk the things are, this is very distressed, because you use two layers. The first …

Transcript And today we’re going to explore how to achieve a crackle textured finish. So in order to actually get crackles one has to always use as one’s base rabbit-hide glue which is also called ‘size’, and it’s a clear liquid which you can find at some art stores. And basically you’re going to roll …

Transcript In this video of decorative painting techniques, we’re going to be exploring how to paint over a textured surface. You may have a wall or a ceiling that already has texture applied on it so, what are the things that we can do with texture such as this, for example. Now, the first thing …

Transcript The demand for stone, be it real or faux, is always, always there. And one of the reason this came into a lot of popularity was because of Venice, because Venice, as you know, is a city that has been built on water and you cannot really use very, very heavy blocks of stone …

Transcript So now we have the third step of the crackle texture technique. First, if you remember, we put the size. Then we waited for that to dry or at least become tacky. And then we applied the texture which is a rough texture which is probably more suited to be used in exterior situations …

Transcript One request that always comes in is for a finish, which is granite, which has many, many applications, obviously for counter tops and sometimes for blocks of granite, which could be in office spaces or very big foyers. So, these are some of the granite samples that I have. This is more like a …

Transcript Welcome to the full finish segment on tile and brick. The first thing I wanted to show you, was this sample, which is of brick which is trying to simulate plaster that has been falling off brickwork, and you’re exposing basically the brick. But also keeping in mind that you have the plaster, which …

Transcript This edition of decorative paint techniques we’re going to be learning how to stencil and I have a stencil that I’ve cut out myself which is basically a spray of roses with lots of leaves. So instead of doing the more traditional way of using colors which would be green stems and leaves and …

Transcript Today we’re talking about having a leather look texture, and this is a very traditional leather faux finish. And I’d like to point out that a faux finish differs from, let’s say, a glazing technique because a faux finish actually copies something in nature. So you can find granite and marble and wood and …

Transcript In this segment of ‘Decorative Painting Techniques’ we’re going to be looking at distressing a surface. It could be wood, it could be fiberboard, anything that you are actually working on. A lot of these techniques are used when cabinetry is being painted so you’ll find it on armoires, you’ll find it on kitchen …

Transcript In our series ‘Decorative Painting Techniques’ we’re going to explore a technique called plaid which of course is a fabric. In this particular technique I originally did it back in 2006 in a show house in a nursery where it was very well received. And it really is sectioning off stripes first horizontally and …

Transcript In our series on decorative paint techniques we’re going to explore how to color wash. Color washing is a technique that was basically made very popular in Italy. You’ll find it in a lot of the Tuscan walls. It’s an absolutely beautiful technique. You just need a glaze, you need at least a three …

Transcript In this Interior Decorative painting technique video we’re going to be exploring making overlapping geometric squares, or I’ve taken the liberty of also including rectangles. So they’re really geometric shapes. You can introduce circles, triangles, whatever you’d like to do. But basically this would represent an accent wall in your room or your office, …

Transcript And now that our glaze stripes, which are the vertical ones, have dried, we’re going to go over them, first marking off the horizontal stripes. These are five inches and these stripes running this way will also be five inches. And I am using a low-tack tape here only because if I use a …

Transcript So in our series of decorative painting techniques, now we come onto the technique called ragging, which, again, uses glaze, and a pan with a roller, plus your base color, which in this case is kind of camely color, and my glaze color is more of a caramel. So very carefully roll on the …

Transcript In our series of decorative painting techniques, we’re going to be discussing the use, and also using, a textured roller, which you can find in most hardware stores. They’re available in 4 inches and 9 inches, and 12 inches. They give a much more consistent ragging appearance, which some people like and other people …

Transcript In our series Decorative Painting Techniques we’re going to explore another Asian-inspired technique which relies on two strong colors. One being your base color, in this case I’ve chosen a really crisp apple green, and the top color is decidedly orange, so I’ve charged my roller and I’m going to apply and give almost …

Transcript In our Decorative Painting Techniques we’re going to be learning today how to make self-stripes which are basically the same color stripes except there’s a glossy one and a matte one. They’re also called, as I said, self-stripes as well as tone-on-tone stripes. So I have marked out on my board four-inch intervals and …

Transcript In this segment of Decorative Painting Techniques we are going to learn something very, very important which actually is the basis of all of the glazing techniques, and that is what is glaze. First, we find out it’s actually, even though it looks milky here, it’s a colorless medium which is almost like if …

Transcript In this segment of Decorative Painting Techniques, we’re looking at, once we’ve colored our glaze, what we can actually do with it. That is where a lot of the glazing techniques come in, techniques like sponging, ragging, color-washing and striae. All of these techniques are basically using a film of glaze on top of …

Transcript Today we’re actually going to be talking about the different kinds of glazes that are available and these are glazes you can pick up at an art supply store or paint store. They’re really divided into two kinds of glaze. You have water or acrylic based glazes, and on the other side you have …

Transcript In this segment of decorative painting techniques, we’re going to be learning how to make a very basic glaze. And what I usually recommend, if you’re doing any glazing on a wall or possibly a ceiling, is to take five parts of glaze; so I have a teaspoon, two, five. So, I have five …

Transcript Today we’re going to learn how to sponge paint walls. Even though we are saying paint, we are actually using a glaze, whether you’ve mixed it yourself or you bought it from a store. After you’ve colored your glaze to whatever color you want on your walls, you take your sponge, which is a …