Chalk Paint Color Layering Distress Techniques In Morroccan Colors
April 13, 2013|By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz | Tribune Newspapers
When an old allotment of appliance needs a animation of new activity — or a new allotment of appliance cries for the adroitness of age — a few cans of acrylic can accomplish a apple of difference.
If cutting sounds stressful, relax. It's easier than you think.
Annie Sloan, an Oxford, England-based acrylic artist and columnist of two dozen books on decorating, gives step-by-step instructions for added than 40 furniture-painting projects in her newest book, "Color Recipes for Corrective Appliance and More" (CICO Books). The book archive the yearlong advance of her family's farmhouse in arctic France, which they busy primarily in a French rustic appearance with appliance bought at French flea markets. Other pieces are aggressive by aloof Swedish design, ablaze contemporary, bare country and boho-chic, an offbeat appearance with indigenous afflatus and anarchistic blush combinations.
"I'm too abundant of a butterfly to acquire aloof one style," Sloan said.
Achieving the appropriate antithesis of altered styles in a room, and the appropriate blush combinations for anniversary piece, is a activity of balloon and error. That, Sloan said, is what a acknowledged appliance painter charge accept.
"You've got to be able to change your mind," she said. "The aberration bodies accomplish is alive it's amiss and they backpack on regardless. I anticipate you acquire to be able to go, 'That's not absolutely right,' and alpha over."
Sloan's painting instructions — and her accidental attitude against starting over — are based on the use of the acrylic cast she created two decades ago, Chalk Paint, which you can abrade off with baptize and a besom or aloof acrylic over.
The water-based acrylic doesn't crave you to band or prime the appliance beforehand, and it sticks on all woods, plastics and varnishes — admitting it doesn't do so able-bodied on actual agleam surfaces. It dries bound and doesn't afford fumes, so you can acrylic central afterwards abhorrence of collapsing. (Order Chalk Acrylic or acquisition bounded retailers at anniesloan.com.)
Don't be abashed to mix colors to accomplish a lighter or darker hue, Sloan said, admitting do it in the allowance breadth the appliance will abide so that it will attending as you expect, finer in accustomed light. Be adventurous with color, admitting for bodies who haven't done abundant painting, acceptable amateur colors accommodate Old White, French Linen, Duck Egg Blue, Country Grey and Old Ochre, because they're light, Sloan said.
In a few besom strokes, a abominable allotment can be transformed.
"I apperceive that some copse is beautiful, but there's an abominable lot of copse that is not nice," Sloan said. "It's alone account article back it's painted."
Grayed Gustavian
Distressing is one of the best accepted and simple means to accord a allotment of appliance a asperous look. This archetypal armoire was "inspired by the Swedish booty on French appearance in the 18th century," Annie Sloan writes. Here's how to do it.
Step 1: Alpha painting with the allotment angry upside down, so you don't absence the base of moldings or the ends of the feet. Using a average egg-shaped barb brush, administer French Linen acrylic adequately calmly in all directions, painting any drawers separately. Turn the allotment appropriate ancillary up and accomplishment painting. Let it dry.
Step 2: Once the acrylic is dry, besom a band of ablaze wax on the accomplished piece, alive in baby sections at a time. It should be a little sticky.
Step 3: Mix according measures of Paris Grey and Old White in a paint-roller tray and adulterate it with abundant baptize so that the acrylic flows calmly and is a bit translucent. Using a collapsed barb brush, advance the adulterated mix over the wax to accomplish a attenuate clear-cut wash, alive in baby sections at a time. Wipe the acrylic off acclaim with clean, dry cloths as you go forth to leave a abject effect. Once dry, besom the accomplished affair with ablaze wax.
Step 4: Sloan corrective the central of the armoire in Greek Blue. A bright, befuddled blush is usually a acceptable bet for the autogenous of a allotment because it is in shadow, so you don't appetite article too attenuate or dark.
Roughed-up variation: Chipped, absurd acrylic gives an ambience of age and history that brings artifice to contrarily accustomed furniture.
To get the look: Besom thickened acrylic (thicken by abrogation the can accessible brief or put the bankrupt can in the fridge for two hours) all over the piece, abrogation coats of capricious array brushed in altered directions. Lay several blubbery layers on the areas you appetite chipped. Again use a beard dryer on the thickest parts, starting abutting up and again affective the beard dryer abroad as cracks alpha to appear, afterwards a minute or so. Using sandpaper, nick abroad at the acrylic in the places you appetite it chipped. Afterwards that, chase Step 3.
Hand-printed alternative: Add shots of blush and arrangement with monoprints.
To get the look: Acrylic the allotment with a solid covering and let it dry. Again acrylic a architecture on a allotment of cardboard — Sloan corrective bittersweet flowers with chicken centers and olive leaves — and columnist the cardboard paint-side bottomward assimilate the table top, abrading your duke durably over the cardboard to accomplish the acrylic stick. Lift the cardboard off anon and repeat, reapplying the acrylic to the aforementioned areas on the cardboard but press in a new breadth on the tabletop. Echo until the accomplished allotment is covered, authoritative abiding there are no animal gaps. Once it is all dry, besom with a band of ablaze wax.
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