 That is what I'm talking about. That is a piece of wall art. This was just supposed to be a test, and it's just supposed to be an example to show you one of our favorite paint techniques. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week, so be sure to like, subscribe, hit that bell for our new videos, and leave us a comment. And this week's video is brought to you by us. Be sure to go over and visit us at kngmakeit.com. And this week we're doing our five favorite paint techniques. Yes. We recently had a comment on how we did one of the paint techniques on one of our door signs. So I thought this would be a great reference video to show you five paint techniques that every crafter needs to know. Paint technique number one. The fastest and the easiest is using the scraper tool. We love this one where we're doing surfaces that are rough like this. Rough. What is this? Fence picket. Yes. Our rough fence picket here. So it's already pre-stained and dried. This gives a good distressed look technique. Because it's got some wood green to it. It's got some uneven surface. And all you have to do for this one is... Hold on. They're speedy. No other cameras are on. You're just in it. You're just feeling it. Tanner, don't stop the cameras now. We can't. She's already started. I'm just going to start recording now. All right. Speedy McGee already started. Cameras are on now. We can do it again. I'll just show. All right. Give it a good fake, Kim. Give me a good fake pour. All right. Go ahead. All right. Was it convincing? This is super easy. Nothing too hard. All right. Cameras are rolling. You're good now. Again. This is a... What is this? An 8 inch? 6 inch? A 6 inch and little metal scraper here. Well, unless you're a guy, then yes, that's an 8 inch. Oh. Garret. So here I'm just going to apply my paint directly to the surface. And we're just going to pull. We'll lay it right before it and pull. And it's going to spread. It's okay. You can kind of come back. It's on your scraper there. You can come back and continue to spread that out. Can I get this? Yep. It's just like icing a cake. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. Like icing a cake. It's fun. That distressed like barnwood look that it leaves on the picket. I do too. I like that if the harder you push, the less you leave. So I tend to go really rough with it. Yeah. You want to give it a try? Give your own scrape. I'll give my scraping on. Wow. Look at that. Yeah. There you go. See. Minutes. Super easy. If you followed our channel for a while, you've seen us use this on porch leaners. We've done a couple of spring leaners where I wanted to keep it white but keep that distressed look. So we've used this technique on the leaners. We also used this technique when we did our craft booth setup for Christmas. We actually did this on lots of shiplap pieces to kind of outline and give that rustic look to our craft show booth setup when we did it at Christmas time. My favorite place that we used it though is in our front room, our workshop area on that farmhouse wall. Yeah. I'll leave a link to that video right here. That was a huge video. That was a great one. I liked. I love that look. So the second example of our scraping technique, we did it on the fence picket. Now we're going to do it on a smooth surface. So this has been painted just a blackboard, painted with same exterior house paint. And now we're going to add a little of the white paint. I say just a little line at the top and scrape it down. Just a piece of MDF. Nothing up this sleeve. Nothing up this sleeve. Action. Woo, a lot. I did it. I went in a little deep. A little deep. It's okay. Let's try to make paper towels. We're going to catch it at the end. Looking good. Perfect. There you go. That one's quick and easy too. Yeah. It's so quick. And I think it actually makes it, gives it that little wood green effect. Ah, jinx, you owe me a Coke. Paint technique number two. We're going to get slick with this one and use some wax to do chippy paint. Yes. This was a technique that Garrett showed me from his art days. I actually saw something that I wanted to replicate. And I said, how do we do that? And he was like, I can show you how to do that. Yeah. You got me a lip balm. Yeah. Yeah. We, if you watched one of our Tuesday lives, not too long ago, we did this and I didn't know, I didn't think to use the wax or think about the fact that we had a can of clear wax. And Garrett says, well, do you have any chapstick? It'll work just as well. Yeah. When in doubt, chapstick it out. So this one's another easy one. It's just a couple of steps. You're going to want to start with a painted or stained surface. This one's painted because we're trying to keep all the techniques kind of similar with the same starting surface. So this is just black on some MDF. We're going to use some of this chalk paint wax and a little spatula. Just give a little scoop. Just kind of put it in places. Rub it around this board a little bit. Yeah. Just random places, random thicknesses. Yep. Again. So that you'll get anywhere that the wax is placed, then the paint over top will not stick to your piece. And then that's what it'll show. The thicker your wax is though, the easier it's going to be to rub off after it's painted. Oh. Getting fancy with it. Fancy over here. And any clear wax will do. There's like min wax brand. I happen to have this high end anti-slone wax here. But you don't need to have special chalk wax or anything like that. Then we're just going to use our regular outdoor paint acrylic that we always use. Any of the different paints will work. Acrylic, latex. This is a latex acrylic because it's outdoor paint. Or your chalk paints. Any of them will work. Yeah. I think this will work with pretty much any paint. I think it even works with spray paint. I'm pretty sure it even works with spray paint. I probably need more paint on the roller. Now this was asked during, we used this technique during one of our workshops recently. And I thought she had a great question. She said, is this going to mess up the roller if I roll right over the wax? And it doesn't. I've been able to reuse the rollers and haven't had any issues. The wax really doesn't stick. You don't push down. If you mash it, I'm sure you'll get wax on your roller. But just roll it like a normal person and you'll be fine. Like a normal person. Just have a light hand. You just want to roll over it. And then after you go to your second coat, like for this, we're going to need a couple of coats of white probably to really... Really? Yes. I don't want to see the black through the white paint coats. And that's how I did our backers for our signs. A couple of coats of white. And then that second coat, you can add a little more pressure because it already has the wax already has one coat of paint over it. Then coats of paint are better than one thick coat of paint. I feel like you're staring at me. Well, Garrett keeps thinking if I just make it perfect the first time, it'll definitely dry like that. She won't make me do it a second time. So I did use the hair dryer, but I used it on cool. No heat. I didn't want to melt any wax and make it look smelty instead of chippy. Now we're just going to use some paper towel and a little bit of elbow grease. Let me get this camera. Because I want to show how easy it rubs away. Well, yes, and I want to show that you can kind of see where the wax was. So it's easy to find it and wipe it away. Here's the chippy paint. Less of a chip and more of a wipe. It looks pretty cool. See, I can get some slashes in there. This is where I rub my finger back down and I remove the wax. And that's why I think by doing this with a, so this is a painted back or a painted base, but if you did this with a stained base, it will look like essentially an old piece of furniture that was painted over and then chipped off over time. When you're going to paint it, put it on the corners and some of the areas that looks like where it will rub through. Yeah, where it will get the most wear. You want to do the chipping. But it really showcases the technique. Yeah, we just have to do 100 more. Did you know you could get all of our files behind the scene content and even a Kim and Garrett After Dark podcast? As well as monthly zoom calls access to a secret Facebook group and we'll even send you one of these fancy t-shirts all for $20 a month. It's the best way to support this channel. So join us over at Patreon.com. Paint technique number three in 3D. We're going to use some plaster of Paris and make this board pop. We're going to use a little bit of this plaster of Paris. Two to one in paint. Stir it up. Get it nice and thick. Now we'll scrape it across this stencil. Yeah, this is just a little vinyl stencil. Reusable. So two. Two to one. Alright, that's two. That's two. Where's my, let me get my camera out. This is your two. Two. Two. One, right? Yes. It's very light and fluffy. It's almost like I'm making pancakes. No, I don't make pancakes on a plate, I guess. Ooh, maybe I needed more paint. Yeah, maybe need more water. What would you say that's the consistency of cake batter? Like, I'm going to say 10 minute old oatmeal. Yeah, probably like cake batter. Maybe a little thicker than cake batter. See how it's sticking to the plate. Alright, I think we're good. We're nice and ready. Put some weight. See, to the stencils now. Ooh. Don't move to the stencil. Somewhere here. You get some. You get some. Maybe professional. Yep, you're getting some. You get some more. It's dripping off your plate over there. Alright, now I'm going to scrape it. Leave it in the holes. Yeah, you want this no more than like an eighth inch thick. No, not scrappy. We want to leave a little texture. So you want it about an eighth of an inch. Yeah. You don't want to actually see the design. I think your other little spatula might be better. I think that's okay. Okay. Nice and good, nice and even. Alright, now it's still wet. We're just going to lift up the stencil. Try and pick it straight up. Don't get slidey. Bang on. She's thick. Yeah, she is. Look at that. Very cool, very cool. That's only part one. Alright, now we're going to let this dry for about 20 minutes. Now that it's all dry and textured it's looking pretty cool. It already looks cool. I think the shadows and stuff that it creates you could probably leave it here but we're going to come in with a little bit of makeup sponge. A very dry makeup sponge and just try to catch the raised edges. I think I can use the ruler. So you can also mix this the traditional way which is two parts plaster of pairs, two parts powder and one part water and the other way is you can once it dries come back with a wet sponge and even out the depth of the texture. So we've left ours with multiple depths just to give it a different look but you can kind of knock that down with a little wet sponge and give it another like flat more flat design look. To give it a little bit more effect we're just going to use some paper towel we're going to crumple it up try to make a flat crumply area but the front just get a nice uneven surface at the front of my paper towel whatever the front is we're going to dip it in the paint we're going to dab it off until it's pretty dry once it's dry and gives me a nice uneven little dab I'm then going to take it to the black and try to dab it all over the place make it look a little vintage. What do I think? I think wow that is what I'm talking about that is a piece of wall art this was just supposed to be a test and it's just supposed to be an example to show you one of our favorite paint techniques but I think we just pulled off a piece of wall art what do you think? pretty cool it gives it a lot of dimension makes it look vintage, makes it look worn a lot of texture we do something like this when we redo a piece of furniture if you put a little accent in a corner or along the top in the edge somewhere again you use that plaster of Paris mix it with some paint throw it up on there this works a little bit better with chalk paint because you can round those edges if you just mix the plaster of Paris with water once it's dry you can flatten this thing out some and give it just a slight raised look to it like the ridges and everything in here I think this is a piece of wall art it's art that is a good one paint technique number four it's the fastest dry brush fastest hand in the west I live in the east if you've ever watched our dry brush Merry Christmas vertical porch leaner yeah it was not sped up he used yes he already knows my favorite line we use this technique in that porch leaner and it was one of the funniest lines I've never forgotten it and I say it all the time this is not sped up you cannot stop it we'll do the same thing here we'll do it real time we're going to go real time for you need a little bit of paint just a tiny little squeeze and then I'm going to just dip the ends of the bristles in that just a little bit of paint on the bristles just a little bit of paint on the bristles and now here we're going to sacrifice our craft table I'm going to brush it off a little bit now we're going to come in very light hand and just kind of drag it across that's it dry brush method I like it though I mean look at it that's good here's where it starts to get fast the less paint you have on your brush the faster you get that's how it goes alright what do you think, need some more? yes from this view this is like a dark section it's just like sweeping still, yeah right in the end I was going to say right in here it still looks dark and why are you scared of that section I'm going to stay away from the middle I'm cooking with gas or something like that propane propane products yeah yeah that's what I'm going to get these ends a little bit I think should I go deeper I think that's a good representation of dry brush well look here what do you think on there it just looks so much different than when you look in person I think yeah I mean I think this is great I mean I think this is the fast easy way a little bit of interest well this looks super cool over staying I mean when we do the backers and you do the dry brush over them looks super cool gives it like a feel of depth well I think if you were to put some like aquarium or an aqua color right here a teal on top of this yeah you can layer dry brush very easily again this dries almost instantly yeah you can add so you can immediately come in with another color give it a dry brush and remember it's just paint you can always paint over paint well and what I'm saying what I meant to say was that you could paint like a word in a teal color and have it pop on there against this background but yes I think that was a good call out though that you can mix colors you can add multiple colors in here a teal or red or something and give it a whole different look a little bit of teal, a little bit of orange maybe look a little bit rusty this is one of my favorites right here he said that after every technique paint technique number five this is a sticky one we're going to use some glue to make some crackle paint super easy, super fast did I say that about every one of them so far we just used this recently probably in December is that when we did that in December I think I mean it was pretty easy we did chess pieces on canvas so I was trying to show how you can use that mixed media by adding the wood pieces to a canvas and we used this paint technique so I wanted to showcase it here because I think the look is really cool and you can add that to a piece of furniture you can crackle finish furniture you can crackle finish a door around or any kind of wall art anything that you want to paint we just squeezed some Elmer's glue onto the board and now I'm going to brush it around the thicker the glue the more crackle or the bigger cracks they'll be so if I come in with just some light glue we'll do light glue up top or on this side and bring it into a darker glue on the bottom give you that cross hatch it the glue will separate and crackle with the finish of the brush so whatever way the brush or the strokes are facing that's how we'll crackle so we'll go and do a horizontal crackle do you need more glue? plenty of glue now you don't even have to let this dry we're going to go right in with some white paint where am I? I'm going to put my roller oh I put it away that's what I do that's what you do once my hand leaves it Kim's going to put it away it's true now this you want a liberal amount of paint on your roller and the glue you want it to ride on top of the glue now is this better rolled or brushed? I like to roll it better I believe it's easier to keep it on top of the glue and not get the glue all up in my paint brush with the paint now this will naturally crack as it dries but even more so if you add a little heat quicker it goes you'll get so we're going to speed it up with the hair dryer this one right here is my favorite one I think it's the fastest and it's the most artistic with the speed I think it's pretty cool you could use this on anything piece of furniture door rounds furniture you can use it on even canvas that's what we used it on it worked beautifully on the canvas I think this would look really cool as a door for a door put a poppy color behind there like a red and then another white over top of it and do it I think that would make a cool front door this looks good with very contrasting colors front the base coat, the top coat a really cool red as a base coat the crackle on top of it looks really cool together I think any contrasting colors would look very cool in this kind of method again we did black and white because at the end I want to show you all of them together really up close how cool they all are I think this one's my favorite for real leave us a comment down below about what your favorite paint technique is and we're about out of time so if you're not going to join us for our patron after show or this week's test cut Tuesday we will see you next Friday where we'll do it, build it, and make it again how many of you think I can balance at one time? I think I can do two at a time like together or one in each hand ooh, they're different size boards ooh, this is going to be tricky yeah, that's too tricky