Decorative Painting Techniques: Video Series

Faux painting is a great way to treat an interior wall, as glazes can be manipulated into a variety of textures using rags, brushes, scrapers and squeegees. Find out how to add a faux texture to a wall with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Hand-painting kitchen tiles can be done by taping off where the grout lines should be, laying down a solid glaze, pulling up the tape and applying a finishing coat over the entire area. Create the illusion of ceramic tiles with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Painting bubbles on walls can be done using a sheer paint that can only be seen in certain lighting, and adding a few white highlights creates a realistic effect. Paint whimsical bubbles on interior walls with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

An Asian-inspired wall painting design can include making the background look like raw silk and painting simple bamboo stalks over the top of it. Create the feeling of hand-painted silk on the wall with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Splatter painting the walls can be done using a toothbrush dipped in paint, which creates a very fine splatter suitable for faux stone painting. Create interesting textures using subtle splatter methods with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Painting clouds on a ceiling is best done using a wet-in-wet technique, which creates feathery, beautifully blended areas of pure sky and clouds. Begin at the horizon line with smaller clouds, making them larger and fluffier as you work your way up, with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

To paint water on walls, use a staining pad to blend the various colors of water together, and finish off the painting with white highlights and wave caps. Paint large bodies of water on a wall with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Sponge painting walls should be done using colors that are very close to each other for a subtle, tone-on-tone look. Use natural sponges for the best sponge-painting results with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

To paint flowers on a wall, use a chisel brush to create long, sweeping stems, dab on colors of paint to create small petals, and add a few leaves and foliage to finish it off. Create a floral pattern on the wall with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Creative painting techniques always turn out the best when the area is taped off precisely using the right materials and burnishing the edges of the tape to avoid bleeding. Find out how to create the best creative painting effects with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Painting plaid walls requires measuring and taping off the stripes accurately, using transparent glazes and taping off each new section after the previous layer dries. Create a plaid effect over the entire wall with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Faux wood painting techniques can be achieved by using rubber combs and rollers that have a wood-grain pattern etched into the surface. Create the illusion of wood, or add texture when painting over wood panels, with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Painting stars in a room can be done using glow-in-the-dark paint, silver leaf or gold leaf, all of which can be applied using an acetate stencil of star shapes. Create a night sky on the walls and ceiling of a room with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Painting diamonds on the walls requires measuring how large each diamond should be to have them all fit perfectly within the space. Tape off the diamond pattern before painting with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

To paint a wall to look like stone, use a variety of tools, several different glazes and painter's tape to tape off the grout lines. Layer up the different colors before blending and texturizing them with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Painting clouds on the walls of a nursery can be done by blocking in the solid sky areas and blending in the white paint while the blue is still wet. Create feathery, realistic clouds as wall decoration with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.

Faux painting a surface to look like granite is done using a combination of sponge painting and splatter painting within a taped-off area. Create a natural-looking granite surface with helpful tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting techniques.