Okay, now it’s time to get started faux painting a brick wall. You won’t know if you can faux paint a brick wall if you don’t get going. Draw out a few rows of bricks, using your template and the video as a guide. If you find that after 3 or more rows you don’t like the pattern or you don’t like how the bricks are landing at the end of your rows, you are probably using the wrong measurements for your grout lines.
No matter how well you prepare for this or how well you try to measure out that 1/4 or 1/2 inch grout line it might come out wrong. You are not a professional brick layer. You might have to wipe down your wall and start over.
Keep track of what you are doing on a lined piece of paper. Not happy with how it is going? Tweak up your grout spacing and try again. You may find that the brick template you made is not working out. Cut it down an inch in length and see if that makes a better pattern. I know this may seem tedious but it’s better to fix it now than after you start painting.
TIP: From time to time, step away from your work for twenty or 30 minutes. Go have some lunch or wash the dishes. Give your eyes and your brain a break. When you come back and look at the work you have done, you will see in an instant where you have made any errors. It will be easy to let that pass.
There is a place in our minds that can cloud over errors that we see in that instant. All that work blends together, the good and the bad. We think it’s all good. Just wait until your all done, that little error or mistake will show up like a beacon. And others will notice it also. You should pay attention to those brain cells that are working overtime to show you the errors of your ways.
A few more thoughts about spacing your brick grout lines. You do have a little bit of the fudge factor working in your favor, but not much. When you start at one end of a row with a quarter inch grout line and you try to fudge in half inch grout lines by the end its going be noticeable.
I teach using a pencil as my grout line distance, mostly because of the handy tool instead of trying to use a ruler. Sometimes you’re grouting needs to be a tiny bit bigger or smaller which why I call it the fudge factor.
In the video I talk about a little trick for starting your lines in the middle of each course; which gives you a little wiggle room on each end with brick size.
Don’t get too anxious about all this drawing and sizing of faux brick and drawing in level rows and half width bricks. If you have chosen to paint an entire faux brick wall you’re pretty brave and after you finish this course about faux painting a brick wall you shouldn’t have any problems.
Have patience while faux painting a brick wall…what do they say about building Rome?
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