Two tone dresser makeover how to paint with chalk paint.
Two tone dresser with chalk paint.
If you are waiting on paint to dry pull out the blow dryer keep working.
Here annie has selected giverny and aubusson blue.
Using a combination of annie sloan and rustoleum products linen white and graphi.
It was also my first time outside of a small wood board in class using this technique so i wanted the practice.
I wanted to do a two color distressed finish with chalk paint on the base to create some interest.
Once the dresser looked sufficiently clean i painted it using annie sloan chalk paint in pure white.
It also distressed easily.
Chalkboard paint now comes in a bunch of colours not just black and green just check out your local home depot or other big hardware store.
Either one sounds like a fun project.
Annie shows you how to create a two colour distress using her signature technique and two colours from the chalk paint palette.
No amount of paint hid the bleed through and it looked horrible.
Choose two colours from the chalk paint palette.
Annie began by applying her primer colour of chalk paint in giverny using a chalk paint brush to create texture.
It s different from chalkboard paint it goes on matte and is well suited to furniture whereas chalkboard paint creates a chalkboard surface to write on.
Annie sloan developed her un.
Once your base colour is dry use a clean chalk paint brush to apply the second colour.
The finish from my furniture kept bleeding through the paint.
What happened next was soooooo incredibly frustrating so listen up if you re going to use chalk paint on mahogany.
For this video we will go over some layering and blending with chalk paint.