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Painting Tips
Floating
Floating is a technique commonly used by artists to provide a quick and easy graduated
shading (or highlighting) to a project that gives it the look of having depth and dimension.
It is one painting technique all serious woodcrafters should master.
Floating is created by a single stroke of a wide or angled brush loaded on one side with
water on the other side with color. Floating is accomplished as follows:
- Dip your brush in water than touch one side to a paper towel to remove the excess
water--just enough to remove the shine on your brush.
- Load half of your brush with paint (the long side of an angled brush).
- Stroke back and forth on a palette or paper plate until the paint blends into the
paint blends into the water aross the brush - dark to light.
- Line the dark side of the loaded brush up where yo want more color then stroke
the entire face of the brush across the project.
Note: Most Winfield patterns identify areas to be floated and suggest float paint colors.
To view this technique consider purchasing our "Paint Like a Pro" dvd.
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