Comments on: Instructions for Painting Gradients | Blending Colors http://www.thatpainterlady.com/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/ Choosing color and style for faux painting your home. Debra Conrad THAT Painter Lady answers your questions about decorating, style and painting your home. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:29:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: THAT Painter Lady http://www.thatpainterlady.com/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/comment-page-1/#comment-1761 THAT Painter Lady Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:14:08 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/painting-techniques/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/#comment-1761 The center space is filled with the mixture of half and half of your two color choices. Leave a gap between the two bands of color. Apply a little glaze to this bare area. Now apply some of the bottom color and middle color. Using the same bru Apply the first color (one of the colors from your color wheel choice). This band of color goes on from the bottom up one-third of the space. Apply this coat with out using faux glaze or water until you get to the 1/3 line. Use a brush, dampened. Keep running the brush along the break working into the still wet paint with the wash of colors. Continue to blend until you have blurred the lines and can’t see a hard edge. Use glaze and or water to help in blending. The top third of the space is painted in the same way. The color is your second color choice and blended into the mix one third down the wall or area of painting. If you are painting around a corner. Paint into and out of the corner while painting one wall. Don’t stop in the corner if you can help it. This will give you and area to blend up too on the next wall. The center space is filled with the mixture of half and half of your two color choices. Leave a gap between the two bands of color.
Apply a little glaze to this bare area.
Now apply some of the bottom color and middle color. Using the same bru
Apply the first color (one of the colors from your color wheel choice). This band of color goes on from the bottom up one-third of the space. Apply this coat with out using faux glaze or water until you get to the 1/3 line.
Use a brush, dampened. Keep running the brush along the break working into the still wet paint with the wash of colors. Continue to blend until you have blurred the lines and can’t see a hard edge. Use glaze and or water to help in blending.

The top third of the space is painted in the same way. The color is your second color choice and blended into the mix one third down the wall or area of painting.

If you are painting around a corner. Paint into and out of the corner while painting one wall. Don’t stop in the corner if you can help it. This will give you and area to blend up too on the next wall.

]]> By: Nancy S http://www.thatpainterlady.com/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/comment-page-1/#comment-1757 Nancy S Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:26:32 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/painting-techniques/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/#comment-1757 Hi. This is very helpful! My teenage daughter would love to have gradient walls in her new room and I was told it would be nearly impossible (or prohibitively expensive). This doesn't seem so bad! However, in the second part of your description, the third bullet point appears to have been cut off. Can you tell us what the rest of the point is? I appreciate your site. Thanks! Nancy in NJ Hi. This is very helpful! My teenage daughter would love to have gradient walls in her new room and I was told it would be nearly impossible (or prohibitively expensive). This doesn’t seem so bad!

However, in the second part of your description, the third bullet point appears to have been cut off. Can you tell us what the rest of the point is?

I appreciate your site.
Thanks!
Nancy in NJ

]]> By: » Underwater Mural | How to Project | THAT PainterLady.com http://www.thatpainterlady.com/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/comment-page-1/#comment-5 » Underwater Mural | How to Project | THAT PainterLady.com Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:25:09 +0000 http://www.thatpainterlady.com/painting-techniques/instructions-for-painting-gradients-blending-colors/#comment-5 [...] The first step in creating an underwater mural will use the gradient technique (I taught this in a previous article…go check out instructions for blending paint colors. [...] [...] The first step in creating an underwater mural will use the gradient technique (I taught this in a previous article…go check out instructions for blending paint colors. [...]

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