How to Faux Paint by Sponging

Video Transcript

"Ok, we are going to sponge the wall now. To sponge a wall, you need to get a C-sponge, and I think you can get those, pretty much at any craft center. I'm Lorna Campodonico, faux painter, and decorative artist, so you take your sponge, and you're going to have to get it wet, and then you're just going to take your glaze, and you're going to dunk it in the glaze, and offload it on the side of the bucket. You can even squeeze it if you like, although I don't have gloves on. You probably want to wear gloves, and you want to take the part of the sponge, that has the texture, and we're just going to put it around the wall, and the thing about sponging, that you need to overcome, that I think is not very attractive, is if you just do that sort of thing, so you want to be softer, blend it, have some movement. I'll wipe that off, but not a lot, and you just move the paint around, and you can do this with multiple colors. Start with one color, and today, since we're using sort of a camel tone, you could use taupe, a linen white, brown, and that is pretty much what sponging looks like. It's very easy, it's very quick, but you really need to pay attention, to not forcing the sponge on the wall, because you'll get what I think, is just a sponged, not very sophisticated look. That is sponging, and I'm Lorna Campodonico."