hello YouTube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is Deidre from our
upcycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content and today i've got
three techniques that you can use salt to create chippy textured layered paint these are three
different techniques that are really easy to do and i'm going to show you step by step how you can
achieve this look yourself and i'd also like to thank skillshare for sponsoring today's video okay
let's get started i'm going to show you the three techniques on this palette wood that i've already
painted with some black chalk paint the first technique that i'm going to show you is using
pickling salt and spray paint now for any of these techniques you don't have to use pickling salt
you can use any type of salt Epsom salt table salt bath salt any will work i just find the coarse
pickling salt gives the best chipping effect i've sprinkled the pickling salt all around the
outside of the piece of pallet wood and then i'm taking my spray paint and i'm just spraying over
top of the salt as you can see in the beginning i had the spray paint held too close to the salt
and when i sprayed it it blew the salt away you want to make sure you're having your spray paint
held far enough away from the wood that you don't disperse the salt you're going to set it aside
let it dry completely and then once it's dry i just like to take a paintbrush and just brush away
all of that salt as you can see when you brush away that salt we're left with a really chippy
layered look that black is peeking through and all those grains from the salt have given different
texture to that paint underneath i really love this method and it's really quick and easy to do
great base for signs then i like to take my palm sander with my 80 grit sandpaper
and just sand over the entire board all three of these techniques can also be used on furniture
and they create an amazing antique looking piece of home decor on a budget this next technique is
crazy easy paint your board with any type of paint you want you can use latex you can use chalk paint
you can use up acrylic paint and paint your whole board before it dries pick up your salt and just
sprinkle your salt into that wet paint that's it that's how easy it is and you can create a
fantastic chippy look with this sprinkling of salt on top of the wood we're going to set it
aside and let it dry completely that's completely dried now and now we want to sand off the salt
make sure you're doing this in an area where it doesn't matter if you make a mess because it
can get really messy and you just sand until all the salt is gone i'm using an 80 grit sandpaper
and as you can see anywhere that there was salt it has soaked through to that base color and it's
leaving that chippy effect now I've got it all sanded and you can see how beautiful this looks
you can see the black that showed through where the salt was and with it sanded around the edges
it looks fantastic now i'm going to show you my favorite technique this one takes a little bit
more work but it's worth it and you can add two or more colors and have that layered chippy look
i'm using up some of my acrylic paint I'm just going to put enough acrylic paint in there to do
one coat on the board and i'm also going to use some of this yellow i think they're going to look
really fantastic together and then you just pour in your salt there's not really any measurement
you just pour it until all the paint and the salt has incorporated together and the more you put in
the more chippy you're going to get the less you put in the less of effect you're going to get
and you just stir it together and you can just imagine all the color combinations that you can
mix together using this technique it's also a great way to use up your little bits of paint
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painting i'm gonna use this turquoise color first and you just want to spread it out on the board
the thing with this technique is you don't want to actually use brush strokes you want to dab up
and down if you use the brush strokes you're going to brush that salt back and forth and the paint is
going to get underneath it and you're not going to get that effect so just dab it up and down
until you cover the whole board this is kind of a simplified version of my salt wash paint which i
absolutely love i have a full tutorial on how to create that recipe i'll put a link down below in
the description but this is just a quick and easy way to get a similar result we've got the first
coat dabbed on we're going to set it aside and let it dry thoroughly the first coat is completely dry
and this is crucial you have to make sure it's completely dry before you put on the next coat
we're gonna use the yellow acrylic paint with the salt mixed in it and the same process
just dab it up and down i'm only going to be using the two colors today the turquoise and the yellow
but you can definitely layer on all kinds of different colors and the effect is amazing
okay we've got the last layer on now we have to set it aside and let it completely dry this is
a crucial step is letting these dry in between each coat if not when you go to sand it you are
going to have a mucky mess so we want it nice and dry i'm going to go over this with my 80
grit sandpaper make sure you're sanding in an area where it doesn't matter if you make a mess
because this is really messy as you're sanding off all of the salt and it's all finished and
isn't this fantastic it's so chippy and layered and i think it actually looks
authentic like an old piece of weathered wood so there's three different ways that you can use salt
to create texture chippy layered looking wood so make sure you try out these techniques for
yourself and i hope it was helpful let me know down in the comments which one's your favorite
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