If you are waiting on paint to dry pull out the blow dryer keep working.
Two tone dresser with chalk paint.
I used annie sloan chalk paint for this project and found the paint layered incredibly well.
Annie shows you how to create a two colour distress using her signature technique and two colours from the chalk paint palette.
Here annie has selected giverny and aubusson blue.
Choose two colours from the chalk paint palette.
What happened next was soooooo incredibly frustrating so listen up if you re going to use chalk paint on mahogany.
Annie began by applying her primer colour of chalk paint in giverny using a chalk paint brush to create texture.
For this video we will go over some layering and blending with chalk paint.
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.
It was also my first time outside of a small wood board in class using this technique so i wanted the practice.
Once the dresser looked sufficiently clean i painted it using annie sloan chalk paint in pure white.
Chalk paint dries incredibly quickly so drips are sometimes hard to catch this helps immensely.
Once your base colour is dry use a clean chalk paint brush to apply the second colour.
It also distressed easily.
No amount of paint hid the bleed through and it looked horrible.
Using a combination of annie sloan and rustoleum products linen white and graphi.
I wanted to do a two color distressed finish with chalk paint on the base to create some interest.
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.
The finish from my furniture kept bleeding through the paint.
Annie sloan developed her un.