Matching Stain ~ What a Pain!
If you have checked in on this journal before you will notice a different look. I blew up the other program yesterday. I had to call the Web Master and confess, get forgiveness, and was instructed to get this alternate updated quickly! So I saluted smartly and here you go! Enjoy!
The job of the week is a very fine set of 6 chairs and a table. Very solid and well made. However years of letting plants sit on the chairs and 3 or 4 kids and any dining set will take a beating. The Table had been partially redone before but had some kind of chemical reaction and was perpetually sticky.
Step 1: Strip the table top so there isn't a sticky issue anymore. Sand the chairs to remove loose paint. Reglue any loose joints.
Step 2: Base the chairs Black except the seats.
Step 3: Attempt to match the stain. This is the pain. :o) The seats and the table are two kinds of wood. One soft one hard. So I began using glazes of paint. The colors I kept getting were very flat. After fighting and fighting I ran up to the dresser full of mediums in The Loft and dragged out Delta's Brown Antiquing Gel. WOW! This is great stuff. It evened out the tones warmed everyone up and gave the look of stain to both. I added a little yellow paint for the oak table top. Wonderful.
Step 4: Matched the colors from the clients house and painted the top of the chairs a lovely soft green and painted some vines and flowers.
Step 5: This is a cool step. The chairs are quite busy with turnings and spindles so I was really dreading the Varnish stage. I went shopping at the Depot and found wipe on Polyurethane. I was pretty skeptical, But man oh man it works like a charm. I simple saturated an old t-shirt with the goop and wipes it on. No drips no runs. Presto!
Making a living as a painter always presents challenges. But just think of what you learn in the process. Brown Antiquing Gel is gonna be my new best friend! Which should scare most of you!
Have a great painting Day!
Patty
The job of the week is a very fine set of 6 chairs and a table. Very solid and well made. However years of letting plants sit on the chairs and 3 or 4 kids and any dining set will take a beating. The Table had been partially redone before but had some kind of chemical reaction and was perpetually sticky.
Step 1: Strip the table top so there isn't a sticky issue anymore. Sand the chairs to remove loose paint. Reglue any loose joints.
Step 2: Base the chairs Black except the seats.
Step 3: Attempt to match the stain. This is the pain. :o) The seats and the table are two kinds of wood. One soft one hard. So I began using glazes of paint. The colors I kept getting were very flat. After fighting and fighting I ran up to the dresser full of mediums in The Loft and dragged out Delta's Brown Antiquing Gel. WOW! This is great stuff. It evened out the tones warmed everyone up and gave the look of stain to both. I added a little yellow paint for the oak table top. Wonderful.
Step 4: Matched the colors from the clients house and painted the top of the chairs a lovely soft green and painted some vines and flowers.
Step 5: This is a cool step. The chairs are quite busy with turnings and spindles so I was really dreading the Varnish stage. I went shopping at the Depot and found wipe on Polyurethane. I was pretty skeptical, But man oh man it works like a charm. I simple saturated an old t-shirt with the goop and wipes it on. No drips no runs. Presto!
Making a living as a painter always presents challenges. But just think of what you learn in the process. Brown Antiquing Gel is gonna be my new best friend! Which should scare most of you!
Have a great painting Day!
Patty
posted by Patricia Rawlinson at
9:01 AM
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