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Work in Manageable Areas

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Faux Painting Techniques for Walls! 8 Tips for Applying Metallic Suede Decorative Coatings.

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Tools and materials

  • Boero Flex Trowel
  • Microfiber Roller
  • Long-time Open Glaze (Boero)
  • Metallic Suede Paint

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frog tape on your edges all right tip number two is working it in manageable and sizeable areas so i'm gonna be already got my first coat done on this i'm gonna show you give you a demonstration of doing my second coat now i don't want to work in too large of areas otherwise it's going to dry too fast i'm not going to have anything to trowel or manipulate to achieve the coating or effect that i want so i typically work in about three foot sections i'm going to work in about a three foot section like this i'm gonna get my metallic finish on and then i'm going to use the tool to create the fact that i want i'm gonna be using in this effect i'm using a metallic suede i'm using a bow arrow flex trowel so i'm going to roll on with a microfiber roller in about a three foot square section i'm going to roll it on random roll and then i'm going to trowel that area you want to just use sizable areas i don't want to try to put it all on this wall all at once because it's going to dry too fast if you have issues with working yo um because it's too hot the products dry too fast you can use a long time open glaze bow arrow has a long time open glaze that will give you more working time i never use those glazes i just work in manageable areas where um i can work quickly and efficiently and then just move on to this next section so tip number two is work in sizable manageable areas all right

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