Author: Emilia
I have been working on doing some distressed wall techniques these last few days. It’s pretty easy and fun, mostly because you can’t go wrong when making something look damaged and aged. The process consists of joint compound, paint and weathered crackle.
Step 1: Trowel joint compound on wall in sort of a textured manner. Whatever texture you would like it to be. Let it dry.
Step 2: Paint your colors on the dry joint compound. You can use several colors applied to different areas or just one, depending on your taste. Let it Dry
Step 3: Brush on Weather Crackle (I use McCloskey Weathered Crackle Glaze)
Let it dry.
Step 4: Now brush on another color on just some areas and let the crackling begin. You can go wild on this or you can go simple. Let it Dry.
Step 5: Now you can apply now some more weathered crackle. Let it dry.
Step 6: Trowel joint compound in sections of about a square foot. Let it set up so it’s not completely dry yet, but workable. You can tint the joint compound with your top color or you can let it stay the color of the compound which when dry has a cement look.
Step 7: Get some brown craft paper and apply it the square foot of joint compound at a time. Pat down lightly and the peel off. The compound lifts off to reveal the paint underneath. You can put more pressure on the paper or less depending how much of a peel paint effect you want.
Keep repeating step 7 until your wall is complete.
So there you go…hope you can have a chance to try this sometime. Please feel free to ask me any questions or have me do this or another faux paint technique for you. Enjoy!
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Hey, you put two of the same picture up…I sent you 3…..what gives???
Comment by Emilia — February 25, 2009 @ 10:11 am
Ok, ok! I fixed it. Jeez.
Comment by RH — February 25, 2009 @ 4:46 pm
Thanks Sor:)
Comment by Emilia — February 25, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
Very cool!! I think Hallie at Holy Hudson is working on a similar project for her hallway.
Comment by Renovation Therapy — February 26, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
cool! they look like old venitian crumbling walls.good job !
Comment by gary — March 2, 2009 @ 9:45 am
Hi Emilia,
So love the wall techniques. From the first pic, can you tell me which was base color, then color applied next, etc. Trying to determine from the colors I’m using, which will show the most and if is according to the order in which applied. And curious from last pic if the same technique was used just heavier with crackle glaze?
Thanks.
Comment by elizabeth — March 21, 2012 @ 1:47 pm
Hi Elizabeth,
Thanks for the comment.
Well the process I wrote pretty much explains it. You can use whatever colors you like after the first step of appying the joint compound. I used just a mix of the orange , yellow ochre and greens sort of sporatic like an abstract painting and then when that dried I applied more joing compount and lifted it off when semi dry(as explained above) and then put other colors like browms..you can keep doing this and use as many layers until you get the desired look you want.
yes the last technique is the same only using more weathered crackle.
Hope this was of some help..if you have any further questions please feel free to contact me. If you are not getting the look you want I could do it for you.
Comment by Emilia — March 21, 2012 @ 8:59 pm
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