Category: Painting Tips

Painting Tips For Newbies

Painting Tips For Newbies Painting for the first time? Wanting to be the next Van Gogh or Monet, but still starting out? Then you may need to have a lot of money to spend on lessons, a lot of time to spend in museums looking at the work of artists, a lot of time thinking [...]

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Posted in Painting Tips on Feb 22nd, 2012, 3:36 am   

Painting Tips: Priming

Painting Tips: Priming One of the most important rules of thumb in painting is, “always prime raw wood.”  This is especially true for the exterior of your house.  Primer penetrates the surface of the wood, both sealing the wood and providing an anchor upon which the finish paint will adhere.  Without the anchoring effect of [...]

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Posted in Painting Tips on Feb 21st, 2012, 3:28 pm   

Painting Tips

Painting Tips I decided to write a short article on “tips on painting”. This might save you some money in the cost to “paint the house”. In house painting there are tons of variables.I’ll cover some things on “painting inside house” and “paint exterior house” which are popular search terms on the internet which people [...]

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Posted in Painting Tips on Feb 19th, 2012, 3:37 am   

Interior Painting Tips – Dealing With Underlying Paint Colors

Interior Painting Tips – Dealing With Underlying Paint Colors In traditional oil painting, color layering used to be the method to make colors glow and shine. In the lifetime of Vermeer and Rembrandt, strong colors were very expensive and hard to get. And the colors that were available cheap, were earth colors: browns, earthy greens, [...]

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Posted in Painting Tips on Feb 18th, 2012, 3:29 pm   

Handy House Painting Tips You Can Use

Handy House Painting Tips You Can Use House painting is not a very difficult task however, if it is your first time or if you still find it difficult, you can use some of these tips. The reason why a lot of people would find house painting hard is because it is a skill and [...]

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Posted in Painting Tips on Feb 18th, 2012, 3:31 am