Distressing With Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

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See more ideas about redo furniture chalk paint painted furniture. To create a really rustic finish you need some rough sandpaper and to sand before you wax.

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The key to creating a heavily distressed worn and weathered finish is in the sanding.

Distressing with annie sloan chalk paint. Annie demonstrates how to use two colours from the chalk paint palette to create the basis for a heavily distressed rustic look. Annie shows you how all you need is two chalk paint colours and a little chalk paint wax. Using a chalk paint brush apply your primer colour roughly to create a textured finish.

I recommend dipping just the tip of your brush into the paint rather than dunking in the whole thing. Start with a coarse pad and move down to medium and then fine depending on the furniture you re painting and how distressed you want your paint work. One of the benefits of using chalk paints to restyle furniture is the no mess wet distess bonus.

Achieving annie sloan s signature look couldn t be simpler. Here annie has selected primer red and napoleonic blue. Annie shows you how to create a two colour distress using her signature technique and two colours from the chalk paint palette.

Finally apply a coat of clear chalk paint wax this will seal and protect this piece. Using annie sloan sanding pads annie removed the top coat of paint to reveal the colour beneath. Choose two colours from the chalk paint palette.

If you don t have a garage work area live in a climate where sanding outside is a no go like my 15 canadian winters or have a piece that s too heavy to lug outside avoiding messy dust in your living space can be a blessing. Chalk paint is thicker than what you might be used to with latex or acrylic paint and the annie sloan brushes are quite dense. Annie sloan developed her unique and versatile decorative paint.

Oct 29 2017 explore deborah friese denton s board distressing with chalk paint on pinterest. The great thing is when you wet distress painted furniture there. Select both a coarse and fine sandpaper to create variation in your finish.

Annie sloan demonstrates a one colour distressing technique with dark wax. Annie sloan developed her now famous chalk paint decorative paint in 1990 to answer the need she had for a paint which. Thus a little paint will go a long way.

Annie shows you how to do this in a few simple steps.

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