Hey there and welcome back to this second video
today I'm going to show you how to paint the tables that we prepped in our first
video
Before you open your paint can, you want to shake it
really well. Turn it upside down and shake it for about a minute.
Then after opening it stir it well so that all contents are mix well together
I'm going to pour out some paint into this plastic cup.
You want to avoid painting straight out of the can as you may contaminate the
entire can of paint
if you do that. I also wanted to show you how to hold
a brush properly. You don't want to hold it
near the end, you wanna hold it right by the base
almost like a pencil grip, your thumb is on the back and your
other fingers are on the front and by holding it like that that gives you a
lot of control.
The color that I'm go to be using as a base coat for this table
is Dark Roast. This is a beautiful dark grayish brown that this
almost black. As you can see I'm covering about
half way up the bristles. You want to make sure that you have a nice paint amount
on your brush.
But you also don't want to overdo it. If your brush is
overloaded you'll start getting drips and those aren't very pretty.
I want you to keep in mind that the climate you
are working in has a huge influence on your final finish.
You don't want to work in a temperature that is too hot
as it will make the dry too quickly. You also want to avoid heating in high humidity
as that will mean your paint may not dry at all! It is best to work at room
temperature
and definitely not in direct sunlight. Make sure the humidity isn't higher
than
eighty percent the temperature is around 68 degrees or 20 degrees Celsius.
For our next table I'm going to use to color Delightful, which I would
describe as
and nice robin's egg blue.
We're going to open it up and stir it, and then I'm going to pour some
in a plastic cup. I grabbed myself
a brush and
and what I'm going to do first is paint the top
first and
when you're painting you always want to make sure your going
in one direction on your piece. If you're
going cross-wise, it means you'll get
a lot texture in your finish,
and maybe that is what you want.
But if you want it smooth, it is better to use long strokes.
What I'm doing here, you can't really see probably,
but there are
ridges in here, and I just need to push to paint
into. While you're painting, you want to make sure that you don't continue to go
over the parts that have already started to dry.
Our paint dries very quickly, and you'll end up getting brushstrokes if you do
so.
By keeping a wet edge you'll make sure to get the smoothest finish.
Oftentimes you'll find that you can
cover a project with a single coat and it does depend a lot on the
surface that you're painting and this table that I painted in Delightful
I can still see some of the wood coming through
and I want this to cover really nicely so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go
ahead and give this
piece a second coat. If you are working in warm weather and you
absolutely have to paint your project that day, then you can add some extra water to
your paint
which will increase the open time meaning it will dry it less quickly.
Our paint has almost no odor and it is safe to use indoors,
although I would suggest a little ventilation just in case.
Okay well that was
it for this second video! Thanks so much again for watching!
I hope you're going to come back to our third video and
in that video I'm going to show you how to layer a different color over top of
this base color and then I'm going to also cover different distressing techniques
so I hope to see you then!