Sorry guys! Matt got home from class early so we FINALLY ENJOYED an evening by the pond! Sat ont he swing listening to the water and a Frog too! NO pesky mosquitoes yet, it was a rare perfect night in Michigan. Another few days and the skeeters will be chasing me in the house.
Gee Tink! Thanks!! but RIGHT? haha, we'll see! Watch them melt in the sun or something!! Let's not forget the concrete disaster!! I AM going to fix those and keep them where they dont' have to be moved. Matt put them under the pines last night, that may work. THIS TIME I USE CHICKEN WIRE
Dave-
I took a picture of the paints, I'll try to post it later, I'm on the laptop now.. I used reddish brown primer, 2 shades of the fake granite pains, one is gray and the other a kind of pinkish beige. Also a flay black and flat esspresso brown. All spray paints. Here's what I did. Some tips though....most people have trouble with spray paint because they are WAY TO CLOSE to the item and try to cover it in one pass. Then the paint runs. The trick with spray paint is if you think you are back far enough, take one more good step back. Spray to the side of the item and THEN move over the item, keep going off the item before you stop, don't just point and shoot. Keep it fluid so you don't get start and stop "lines". LIGHT COATS! You want colors to show through each other, not be solid blocks of color.
1. PRIME
2. lightly spray areas that are to be shadowed in espresso brown, LIGHT COATS
3. areas to be darker...use flat black over the brown ....LIGHT COATS blend the black and brown together
4. Gray stone paint...cover entire rock in LIGHT COATS, lighter in the areas you wanted to appear in shadow, but you still need it there to blend.
5. pinkish stone paint... cover most or all of rock, heavier in some areas than others, again lighter where you want the shadows.
6. LIGHTLY use espresso brown again in shadowed areas and to blend or make the fake rock paint a little more subtle.'
7. Flat black , same as espresso.
8. FLAT clear sealer spray for outdoor use. Many many light coats.
It's o.k. to go over areas a few times to ge the look you want. The light coats will blend and allow the paints to layer and show through one another. It should almost look powdery on the project....not like paint. It will also dry very quickly this way.
Practice on a cardboard first if you haven't used spray paint much.
