How to Paint Faux Brick on a Wall

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Shana Siegel here at Just Scenic creations in New York City. In this clip we are going to talk about how to paint faux brick on a wall. Now most people, the best way to really do it is to create a stamp for yourself. And there's a bunch of different materials you can use. You can use sponges, you can use a rub, a piece of rubber slab that is actually meant for making stamps out of. And you make one that's like a few brick pattern. Makes it easier to line it up for yourself, keep it straight if it's got at least like a little bit of the pattern established in it. This is a piece of masonite brick actually that is sold as maso brick. That we've cut out a little piece for ourselves. Now the best way to use a stamp is have a nice flat surface that you can dip your stamp into. You can use anything, you can use a cooking sheet with wax paper. Something that is easy for you to clean up. But something so that it spreads evenly on the surface and you are not getting it too much paint on the stamp. Now I've already primed my surface with whatever color I feel my grout should be. Too me most brick is actually has like a grayish grout, so that's what I've gone with here. Now really the trick to this is to be very careful lining it up so that it's straight. That's what is going to give you a convincing brick pattern. And you push it down. Try not to move it once you've set it in. And then see that's actually it's a little lighter then we'd like but if you look you can just kind of go in yourself. It's kind of established where the bricks are, kind of just with your brush. You don't really want a solid brick, because bricks are really very texturey. Since I didn't love how that coverage went, you can also apply directly to this stamp with the brush as well. And get a little bit more paint, and control where the paint goes. You can apply it on evenly so it's not everywhere. Very carefully line it up with itself. So that it's straight. Push it down. Pull it up. See that's a little bit more typical brick patterns, still not really you know exact rectangles. You are going to want to go in and fill it in. And keep in mind this is also just the first step. Cause once you've done this stamp you need to go in with a whole bunch of different colors, cause that's also going to actually make it look like brick. And not like you took a stamp and stamped it on a wall. So now that we've done our stamp treatment of this, this initial treatment for the brick, we get the other tones that we want to put down, now that we have a base and we start to work them in. And the bare areas that the stamp left kind of leaves you know a good guide for where you want to start those colors. It's kind of you know the way that colors tend to happen in bricks. So I am going to try work in some of my darker tones as well. It's a real contrast as it happens. And you can kind of like blend it a little as you go. That's called wet on wet blend. This kind of stuff you can also do with sponges. I prefer to use a brush usually. So that is the basics of painting faux brick."