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8 Special Painting Techniques

If you want something more interesting on your walls than plain emulsion or eggshell paint, there are a number of special painting techniques you can use, some of which require some extra tools plus home-made or commercial oil-based glaze and a selection of tints.

Sponging involves dabbing one or more additional colours on to a base coat to give a mottled finish. It should be done with a sea sponge (not a cellulose sponge) which should not be overloaded. Start at the lop of the wall and dab lightly. Sponging off also uses a sea sponge, but here the paint is put on the wall first and dabbed off.

Ragging on is done by ‘printing’ the wall with a rag dipped into coloured paint on top of a basecoat. Ordinary rags can be used or, for a different effect, cheesecloth, chamois leather or plain cotton.

Ragging off involves first painting the wall with an oil-based glaze and then removing it with dabbing movements.

Rag rolling is similar to ragging off, but here the rag is bunched up and rolled up and down the wet paint – not an easy technique to master.

Dragging also involves working with a wet glaze, but here a paint brush is used to draw down the glaze to leave a striped effect. As with ragging off and rag rolling, the job is easier with two people one to apply the glaze and one to apply the technique.

Stencilling is an old technique for which you need a prepared stencil of the pattern required and a stubby stencil brush to apply the colours. For best results, the stencil should be spray mounted   into   place   to   prevent   it from moving.

Effective stencilling can also be achieved by using an indoor aerosol paint.

Stippling involves dabbing a brush on to wet glaze. A special stipple brush can be used, though many people achieve good effects with (clean) shoe brushes.

Colour washing is achieved by first putting on full-strength emulsion of one colour and following this with a different colour thinned with water and applied with random criss-cross movements.

Spattering is a technique which gives dots of different coloured paint on the base colour. It is achieved by flicking the paint at the wall, most easily done by loading the paint brush and hilting it against a piece of wood. Several colours can be used to good effect.

Paint adds extra life to your home. You should know how to minimize risks when painting your home. Roller makes paint easy so, you should know how to use a roller in painting properly.

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Want to Spray Paint Your Own Car? – Discover All the Spray Painting Techniques You Can Use

Each and every spray systems is made up of three crucial parts: a compressor to pressurize the paint, a container to hold the material and a spray gun to spread it across the required surface through its nozzle in a fine mist. The process of painting by use of compressed spray gun is very simple. On pressing the trigger switch, Ventury effect gets formed, and the paint combines with the compressed air releases itself into the surface as a fine mist.

Different spray painting techniques are employed to paint the surface of a car and all of them use compressed air or fluid or air pressure to discharge and direct the spray. Spray guns are commonly used for spraying cars. Spray guns have two main classifications: suction fed and gravity fed. Both are easily identifiable from its shape and the way it is arranged.

In suction fed spray guns, the paint container is fixed below the air gun and compressed air is used to attain the desired spread. It also has a dedicated air cap to generate low vacuum. In gravity fed, the container is at the top of the gun and the major force acting on the system is gravity though compressed air is used to a lesser extent. Gravity fed spray guns are capable of giving good performance than suction fed guns, as it uses less compressed air and has less weight.

Another process is the HVLP or High Volume Low Pressure system. Though akin to spray guns as far as the compressed air is concerned, the gun works at low pressure. The effect is that wastage is minimized to a large extent.

High Volume Low Pressure technology is used by professional refinishers and painting contractors. HVLP technology is where the turbine motor feeds a high volume of air through a spray gun at very low pressure. This gently forces the paint out of the gun and atmoizes the paint at the nozzle rather than blast it out like an airless. The continual airflow through the aircap acts likes a jacket or force field keeping the spray confined. This gives you greater control of the spray and makes it much easier to achieve a high quality finish with very little experience or skill.

A third process uses Low Volume Low Pressure or LVLP system, and is an improvement of the HVLP system of painting. Here wastage is further controlled and the intended surface gets more paint. Both HVLP and LVLP system need high capacity compressors and may not be ideal for every day use.

In Electrostatic Spray painting, paint powder is used in this technique. When the paint is discharged from the gun, it is so arranged that it develops an electrostatic charge and is sprayed to the oppositely charged surface. As the minute paint particles repulse each other, the area covered by the paint is much more than other systems.

It is important to adhere to safety norms as fine mists of paint are formed and gets released into the air.

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