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Home Painting
Techniques
Painting is a skill that can be mastered if one
understands the medium that is being used. One must learn
to control the paint and master it. There are different
techniques involved in home painting. Everyone starts off
as a beginner. Here are a few tips and ideas about home
painting, that beginners can use to learn the art of house
painting.
 Do
not paint out of the paint can. While painting the brush
picks up dust and other impurities from the surface that
you are painting. If you dip this brush into the paint can
then you will transfer it to the can. This will cause
specks in your painting.
In
an open can the paint will be exposed to the air and it
will react with it. This makes the paint thicker and
sticker and more difficult to paint with.
A
can is bulky and cumbersome to carry around while
painting. A paint can is to be used for storage of paint
only.
Pour
out only about ½ inch of paint into a bucket that you will
use for painting. This is a very small amount and before
it reacts with air you would have used it. You will have
to replenish paint more often but the paint will flow
freely and it will be easy to paint with.
The
bucket will have only ½ inch of paint so it will be light
and easy for you to carry around as you work.
If
you accidentally tip the bucket over, neither will there
be much cleaning to do, nor would you have lost a lot of
paint.
Air
dries paint. Therefore expose as little paint to the air
as possible. So it is better to expose small quantities of
paint to the air at a time.
The
oxygen in the air reacts with the paint, making it thick
and difficult to apply on the wall.
Replace
cap on the lid of the paint can as soon as you finish
pouring out paint. Cover the bucket from which you are
painting with a tray or lid to minimize exposure to air. |
