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Tips and tricks: creative redecorating of your walls
Faux Painting Techniques:
Sponging and stippling
Colour washing
Ragging
Wood graiing
Dragging
Pattern
Stenciling
   
     

Surface
Smooth surfaces indoors, woodchip wallpaper, slightly structured wallpaper or wooden surfaces. (The surfaces shouldn’t absorb too much of the paint) This technique requires constant pressure and evenly drawn lines.

What you need

Paint:
Emulsion paint for the walls, acrylic gloss for wooden surfaces.

For the basis-colour tone:
Use the mako wall roller or mako glaze roller.

For the dragging design:
Use the mako special-effects brush or mako flogger brush.

How to do it the right way

This technique requires a very even hand and careful work, so we recommend that you practise first on a piece of paper or cardboard before you beginn.

1. Apply the paint in small even rows. Treat the painted rows with the mako special-effects brush before the paint has dried.
   
2. Dip the effect-brush slightly into the paint and draw it along the whole pretreated row without stopping from top to bottom. If you are working with wood, pull the mako special-effects brush in the direction that the natural graining of the wood goes.
   
3. The brush has to be wiped off with a soft cloth after each row.
We advise you to use either acrylic glaze or varnish to protect your wooden surfaces. But do not forget to let the painted surface dry for at least 24 h before starting.
   
 

mako flogger brush,

70 mm wide
Art.-Nr. 1002 70
   
mako special-effects brush
„scraper effects“
100 mm wide
Art.-Nr. 1001 99
 
     
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