How to Faux Paint by Stippling

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Lorna Campodonico, for Painter and Decorative Artists, and I'm going to show you how to stipple paint, which is basically using what I call a pounce brush. It's a rounded edged brush. You can see mine has been used several times. And you take the paint and get; I'm using a glaze again; not straight paint but a glaze, and you load it with paint and kind of offload a little bit so you don't get an excess, and you simply dot the wall where you get little tiny brush stipple marks. But because it's a round brush you can play with it, and if you get an offload of a bristle don't worry. When it dries it'll fleck right off. And you just sort of move it around so the paint doesn't form, it looks consistent You don't want big lines. And you can also, you'll be finessing this as you put it on. This is used a lot in furniture, but we're doing it on a wall because you can do it in a wall, although I would do it in small areas; maybe a window frame or you can even do moldings. But you just take the paint and move it around so you don't get too many.. See now, there's the brush. You just lift it off and go back over, and just keep doing that. And you can see, because it has a lot of movement and a lot of pattern you don't want to do it in a large area. And that is how to stipple a wall. Thanks a lot. I'm Lorna Campodonico"