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I am doing a sign framed in hand carved HDU faux granite. Has anybody got any pointers to share like what paints and techiniques they were most happy with?
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-------------------- Mike Pulskamp Pulskamp Arts Sacramento, CA mpulskamp@earthlink.net Posts: 165 | From: Sacramento, CA | Registered: Dec 2002
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When doing faux granite we paint a base coat... tnen sponge on some bacground mottling and paint some wiggly lines for cracks & seams and such.
After this we spray on dots in two or three colors with an inexpensive undercoat gun at low (10-15 lbs) pressure. The spraying goes instantly and be sure to practice on something other than your finish work.
Have fun with it!
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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-------------------- Pat Phipps Custom Trophy & Design Glenn Dale. MD ______________________ _ "A Man Don't Learn A Lesson Less It Costs Him Blood or Money " Posts: 78 | From: Glenn Dale, Maryland | Registered: Feb 2003
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You can use water base or oil base paints, start with a black background and mix 3 or more shades of the colors you wish to use. It doesn't take a lot of paint, you will spread it out quite a bit. Use a cellulose sponge with a large hole pattern and pick out some extra holes in the face, and make sure you tear the edges ragged so there are no straight lines. A sea sponge will usually have the wrong pattern for this and costs a lot more money. Wet the sponge in water no matter which kind of paint you will use - you want it soft. As you apply the paint colors by patting them on with the sponge keep turning the sponge so there are no repeat patterns. Hide the tool marks so normal people won't look at it and say to themselves "Oh, it looks like they just whacked this with a sponge!" If you work with wet on wet each color will pick up some of the others to blend them out some and create many more shades.You want this to look as though it contains millions of pebbles. If you want to use water base paints you can slow down the drying time with extenders - Floetrol is about the least expensive @$5.00 a quart. Granite comes in an endless variety of colors, may have cracks or veins showing - or it may be very even. Have Fun...
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Here's another Book Title "Professional Painted fINISHES" A Guide to the ART and Business of Decorative Painting. WATSON-GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS WHITNET LIBRARY OF DESIGN 1515 Broadway, New York NY 10036 And "Te Finishing School Inc. 50 Carnation Ave,/Bldg 2 Floral Park NY 11001 Phone (516) 327-4850 Fax (516) 327-4853 that"s all you need now comes the footwork.
-------------------- Danny Bussell Tujunga, California
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The Finkelstein @$45 is one of the best faux finish books around. That other one from The Finishing School is called "Professional Painted Finishes" by Ina, Allen and Robert Marx - also among the best, and they sell about the best teaching videos I've seen, the book is also a $45 item and the whole set of videos is about $300. Unfortunately, the specific products recommended in the videos are no longer manufactured. The Day Studios have excellent videos @ around $105 ea. and there is an excellent $75 faux finish book by Guégan & Le Puil, called "The Handbook of Painted Decoration". Videos by Leonard Pardon are also very good at about $30 ea, but they only show one or a couple marbles or grains on each, where the others show 10 on each tape. Amazon can beat those prices.
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