Justine - Blending

Hi my name is justine i hope you dont mind me getting in touch, i happened to come across you on a web site as i was looking for painting techniques.  I need to blend dark green to a lighter green and then to  a yellow at the top and i have no idea how to do this.  My children are Ben 10 mad and want their rooms decorated, these are the colours and rather than have one wall a colour and so on i thought about blending the colours up the walls from dark green to yellow. 
I hope you dont mind but i need help and dont want to make a mess of it.
Yours a desperate mother in need of decorating tips
Justine

Justine

 

This is a technique from years past but created in then in oil paint.

The process was very messy, high in solvents, difficult to clean up after and when done a fire hazard - the good old days.

It can now be achieved in water based products, but it can be a bit more difficult.

I don't know how your skills are or if you have the tools.

Anyway here we go...........

 

TOOLS

Brushes to apply the water based paint- 2"and 4" or a flat wall brush.

Buckets or plastic paint kettles to mix the paint.

Sponges and clothes.

Hogs hair stippling brushes two 6" x 4" or as big as you can get.

Dust sheets.

Tools to prepare the walls if necessary.

 

MATERIALS

Acrylic eggshell for a base colour of your choice.

Clear acrylic scumble.

Acrylic tube colours or stainers of your choice.

Materials to prepare the walls if necessary.

 

METHOD

I would suggest you create this effect in panels on the wall, not the full wall itself, it can be a daunting task.

Apply the base colour, without any brush marks if you can or roller it to create an even roller texture.

Practice this first, be prepared to paint it over if you make a mistake, mix the scumble with the tube colour to the strength you want. Check how much tube colour to scumble then if it dries too quick you can add more scumble.

 

Apply the lower colour, say green, first to about one third the way up, apply the top colour say yellow to the top third. Mix the bottom and the top colour in equal amount and apply this to the middle third.

 

Before you start charge the stippler with some colour, so as it does not pull the colour off the wall. Work along the bottom in a straight line and then back along the same line but one half the way up the first stipple. Do this and work your way into the mixed colour in the middle third. Then with a clean stippler do the same from the top down. Do not turn the stippler round, keep it going in the same way with the same edge going in the same direction. Stipple into the centre to give a gradual change of colour, no lines or a jump from one colour to the next.

 

Do not start with too strong a colour use colour that have been slightly neutralised and don't put the colour on too heavy.

 

Hope this helps

Fred