Old World Faux Decorative Painting : Advanced Faux Painting Techniques

Old World Faux Decorative Painting : Advanced Faux Painting Techniques
Here’s a good example of how you can define this and make this more uniquely a really old world faux. The other faux I was explaining before- that was the basics of how you would get started. If I wanted to add more to it, I would add a second layer, or in this case I actually added a second color. I went a little bit deeper, put a little bit more, maybe a hint of sienna in my paint, so I could get a little bit of red in there. Sienna’s a really nice accent on top of a golden because what happens is orange makes things a little bit warmer. You think it’s going to be orange, but it’s not, especially when it’s that light. It just warms it up a little bit more. So I just concentrate that dark are and just this spot, and not really spread it everywhere. After I finish putting that dark area in, I kind of step back, like I always step back, and look and see where I want my cracks to be at. I pick some of the darkest of the areas for the paint and I pull my cracks through. And many times I incorporate walls. I always want to wrap around walls- it’s very important because I want the feeling to go all the way around the room and not just stop in the corner, because then it wouldn’t be believable. Cracks should flow throughout the entire room. And if you notice the cracks, when I put the cracks on the wall- and it just takes practice, so you’ll be able to get this after some time. But it’s a little bitty thin brush- you can use any type of small tiny brush- I use a little flat, maybe one fourth inch flat brush. And I take it and I sort of drag it and let the brush do it’s own thing. I don’t try to control it, I let the hairs go in the direction that they want to go, and then if I think it’s a little too heavy, I take a rag and wipe off some of it and make it light like in this area right her. Because cracks are not always the same color, if you ever look at any of them. They’re not really. Then, when I come to parts that I want to be emphasize a bit deeper, I add a little bit darker part on that. You can even ago a little bit darker and add a dark brown or even a black in some areas, and that’s going to create a real depth, like it’s a really deep crack. And then you can also fade it out to go extremely light and get all kinds of neat effects to go in the cracks.