Prepare the Whitewash Solution

there and i'll set that aside alright i got my final set of brick masks off here i'm going to put a drop cloth down right here so you want to put a drop cloth down everywhere we're going to be spraying and back brushing this brick to achieve the effect that we want i don't want to get any splatter on the rock down here so you want to get paper and a drop cloth so you don't want to get you know um white splatter on you know the walkways the driveway or their rocks so just drop everything so we're getting ready to do our whitewash out here and i'm going to be using montage uh signature paint right here on the brick to do our white wash now when it comes to the white wash you want to use a high quality paint uh to do the white wash and some of it's gonna be a little bit of trial and error when it comes to the look you want the more water you add to your paint the more translucent the paint is if you just use straight paint on the brick it's going to um it's going to be opaque it'll be just pure white i wouldn't suggest using paint on brick but i'd uh if i'm going gonna paint it i would actually use um like a solid color stain or h c stain something like that but when it comes to white washing you're gonna water down your paint um i'm gonna cut it you can cut it like you know three parts water one part paint if you want it i'm fairly translucent less translucent i'm gonna go with two parts water one part paint i don't want very much of the color showing through just a little bit i'm gonna start it over here don't start on you know the most um i would start on the most inconspicuous space on the house this part of the brick right here is um off to the side you can't really see it so i'm gonna do my test right there if it's a little bit light um just add some more paint if it's um too opaque or or if it's um if it's too light add more paint if it's too opaque add more water so i'm gonna give it a test once i get it just like i want it i'm going to begin the process what i'm going to be doing is just spraying it and i'm going to be just brushing it on in a random brush pattern to give it a random look to it so i've got water right here clean water i've strained my paint definitely want to strain your paint before you do any spraying so i've got it roughly about fifty percent two to one