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Driftwood Effect
Hello!
Today I thought I'll show you how to get
Light, ordinary wood to look like dark, old wood
And to that I have taken a
small wooden box
It is just pure wood
but this technique can also be used
on something that has been oiled a very long time ago
Or, you can roughen the surface a bit so that the color attaches properly
So.
I think the model on this little box is very cute, but
it's pretty dull
so I want to darken it and make it look older
And so...
The first thing I will do
is to mix two colors, I have a brown
Annie Sloan's Chalk paint - Honfleur and I have
a black - Graphite
or, gray? A very dark gray anyway
I'll mix them up so I get a brown-black shade
and then I will
pour some water into that mixture
because I want to work with a watery color
I want to use a technique called 'Wash'
and if you do it with these two colors
you can make a....... Or, a wash can be called
almost a stain!
But you do not use stain, you are using chalk paint
The important thing now when you mix the paint with water
is that you do not whisk too much
but really, really mixing it carefully
because I do not want any air bubbles here, it can affect the result very much
This can get pretty messy so I get some paper,
Plus, if I get too much paint on
I can wipe the paint with the paper so I get
just the shade I want
Before I start painting I'll scratch a little bit
I'm going to chop a bit here and there
Because it will be very nice, the color will soak in so it will be
darker in those places