What's not right with my mind? Good question, I have been trying to figure that out for years.
If you made this far, you might have what it takes to create a amazing room full of textures.
Well lets do a checklist.
1 I am avaliable to do some jobs,843-997-7249 or rosmundson@yahoo.com
will travel for right jobs and currently in NC/ SC area
2. Your walls are finish coated (gloss is best)
The reason for gloss is its reflective surface allows your texture colors to reflect off it and
add depth.
3. Your trim is finished and masked.
4. The floors are are covered and doors and windows are covered with plastic.
5. Electrical outlets, plates removed and masked..
6. You have your colored mud, preferably gloss (washable walls) in the room with you.
7. Texture equipment and knockdown blades in the room with you.
Now its time to get your mind right, you can do this!
Just remember no two jobs will ever be the same
Each and every one is a unique piece of art.
OK , lean your texture hopper in a corner, don't let it slide and spill, and fill it a little more than half full.
You will want to do the room in small sections so you don't get in trouble with mud setting up before you can blade it.
Good stopping points are doors and windows, you just feather the splatter together when you start your next section.
Now walk up to a window and aim your texture gun at the plastic.
Turn up the air pressure valve on the gun and pull the trigger for a quick burst and look at the splatter.
You want a mix of bigger and smaller blobs of mud,so find the right mix.
Too little pressure and your mud will run down the wall, too much and you will have orange peal texture.
Pick the wall you want to start with and splatter both side of corner starting at the ceiling line and moving to the bottom.
Always keep the gun tip moving back and forth while the trigger is pulled.
Continue to the other corner of room spraying texture from top to bottom and stop about a foot past the next corner.
Grab your knockdown blades and get the light spray on outside of corners first, it will set the quickest.
Now start at inside of corner and gently pull mud into different patterns with blades, you may have to give a few minutes to set if its to wet.
Once you have corner done start at ceiling line and work down to middle of wall, then bring blade back up from bottom and overlap,
Make sure to keep your blade clean each time you pull away from wall, and continue until all mud is knock downed.
Double check your work for misses and take a breath, repeat for rest of room in small sections at a time.
Once you are happy with your work then remove all masking before it gets too dry.
Enjoy, for you have a one of a kind room!
Well I hope I haven't bored you to much and if nothing else you know what to look for in a quality job.
Feel free to leave comments or questions and I will do my best to provide you the answers.
I have noticed the sponsors are right on subject here so please stop and look at one or two ,
You will be helping me even if you don't buy anything.
I'm open to ideas on what to teach next, any suggestions.
Thank you for reading
Ozzies Textures
Coming soon, a step by step video download, just in case you want to see it done
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Rainbow of Colors and Clouds in the Sky
What in the world am I talking about now, what does any of this have to do with textures?
It has always amazed me that the endless array of colors we have to choose from comes from those few primary colors mixed together.
What colors should I use for this job is a question I often hear.
The combinations are endless and really reflect your individual personality.
Your team colors or school colors can be great for a man cave or sports themed room.
You can match colors to your furnishings or just go wild and pick something out of the blue.
The color cards at paint stores are painstakingly matched so they go well together
So you get the idea, the choices are endless , one of my favorites that I have done was a gloss bright yellow with a dark chocolate knockdown over it.
The walls looked like they were shimmering with gold in between the knockdown patterns.
I am going to go back there and take a few pictures in a few days for all to see!
So what does this have to do with clouds in the sky?
You know when you used to lay on your back and imagine all the strange shapes that floated by in the sky.
The eyes always seemed to make it into a image you could relate to.
Well done two toned knockdown texture has the same effect.
What you see depends on what angle you are looking at.
As you move around the room the walls are always changing depending on what your
mind tells you are seeing!
I can tell you this much, never have I done one of these jobs where the owners regretted it.
They just turn out beautiful when done correctly.
I always let them know that if they don't like it we can just paint over with one color
and they end up with beautiful knockdown textured walls anyway!
Well, that's my entry for the day.
By Sunday the final chapter should be in.
Please visit a advertiser while your here to show some love for the info!
It has always amazed me that the endless array of colors we have to choose from comes from those few primary colors mixed together.
What colors should I use for this job is a question I often hear.
The combinations are endless and really reflect your individual personality.
Your team colors or school colors can be great for a man cave or sports themed room.
You can match colors to your furnishings or just go wild and pick something out of the blue.
The color cards at paint stores are painstakingly matched so they go well together
So you get the idea, the choices are endless , one of my favorites that I have done was a gloss bright yellow with a dark chocolate knockdown over it.
The walls looked like they were shimmering with gold in between the knockdown patterns.
I am going to go back there and take a few pictures in a few days for all to see!
So what does this have to do with clouds in the sky?
You know when you used to lay on your back and imagine all the strange shapes that floated by in the sky.
The eyes always seemed to make it into a image you could relate to.
Well done two toned knockdown texture has the same effect.
What you see depends on what angle you are looking at.
As you move around the room the walls are always changing depending on what your
mind tells you are seeing!
I can tell you this much, never have I done one of these jobs where the owners regretted it.
They just turn out beautiful when done correctly.
I always let them know that if they don't like it we can just paint over with one color
and they end up with beautiful knockdown textured walls anyway!
Well, that's my entry for the day.
By Sunday the final chapter should be in.
Please visit a advertiser while your here to show some love for the info!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Your Inner Artist and why I'm doing this
Welcome back and thanks for reading.
First a short explanation on why I would want to give my secrets away.
As I spent most of life working with my father and learning to be a custom painter, we more often than not worked for people that really couldn't afford to do much to improve their homes.
For him it was more about seeing the smile on their faces than the money in his pocket, the feeling of pride in their homes and how it actually changed attitudes for the positive. It was pretty amazing to me how the beauty we created in their homes could change the way they felt about their-selves.
I miss him daily and this is my way of continuing to help others improve their homes.
While your here please feel free to visit one of our fine advertisers to see if they can help with your needs and help a starving artist.
OK, its time to talk about tools of the trade and what you need to do this job successfully.
First to spray the texture you have a couple options.
A air compressor that can deliver a constant 30 psi and a hopper gun is one way. I like Laco, Goldblatt and Graco hopper guns but make sure it has a adjustable air pressure valve on the gun. This is important to be able to control the size of the splatter patterns you spray.Make sure they have a touch up hopper which is easier to work with because it will not be as heavy to work with.
For the hundred or so dollars they cost it's a much better option than renting because you have time to practice.
The next option is to have a texture machine that feeds the mud through a hose to a gun and can be the better choice for large jobs. I have personally owned a couple different sized Graco texture machines and was quite happy with their performance. There are a couple other types I know of such as Rototex and Marshalltown Duoflex.
If you are planning on mixing your own colors you will need a heavy duty drill and a mud mixing blade.
You can buy pre-mixed knockdown colors in either 1 or 5 galleon containers.
Knockdown blades can be the squeegee type, or as I prefer a variety of sizes of stainless steel and plastic taping knifes. They all work and it is just a matter of using what you are comfortable with.
Well that covers the tools, next we will talk about colors and start spraying our mud.
First a short explanation on why I would want to give my secrets away.
As I spent most of life working with my father and learning to be a custom painter, we more often than not worked for people that really couldn't afford to do much to improve their homes.
For him it was more about seeing the smile on their faces than the money in his pocket, the feeling of pride in their homes and how it actually changed attitudes for the positive. It was pretty amazing to me how the beauty we created in their homes could change the way they felt about their-selves.
I miss him daily and this is my way of continuing to help others improve their homes.
While your here please feel free to visit one of our fine advertisers to see if they can help with your needs and help a starving artist.
OK, its time to talk about tools of the trade and what you need to do this job successfully.
First to spray the texture you have a couple options.
A air compressor that can deliver a constant 30 psi and a hopper gun is one way. I like Laco, Goldblatt and Graco hopper guns but make sure it has a adjustable air pressure valve on the gun. This is important to be able to control the size of the splatter patterns you spray.Make sure they have a touch up hopper which is easier to work with because it will not be as heavy to work with.
For the hundred or so dollars they cost it's a much better option than renting because you have time to practice.
The next option is to have a texture machine that feeds the mud through a hose to a gun and can be the better choice for large jobs. I have personally owned a couple different sized Graco texture machines and was quite happy with their performance. There are a couple other types I know of such as Rototex and Marshalltown Duoflex.
If you are planning on mixing your own colors you will need a heavy duty drill and a mud mixing blade.
You can buy pre-mixed knockdown colors in either 1 or 5 galleon containers.
Knockdown blades can be the squeegee type, or as I prefer a variety of sizes of stainless steel and plastic taping knifes. They all work and it is just a matter of using what you are comfortable with.
Well that covers the tools, next we will talk about colors and start spraying our mud.
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