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Become an Artist with Decorative Roller Painting

You may not think of yourself as an artist, but decorative roller painting can showcase your artistic side. It used to take the services of an interior decorator to achieve the kind of decorative wall painting that can now be done with specially designed rollers. Not only can you paint like a professional, you can decorate your walls at a significantly lower cost.

Decorative paint rolling is easy to do using a patterned paint roller. The general steps include first applying a base paint color, and then rolling over the base paint with the patterned paint roller with a different color or glaze. In some roller designs, a special foam roller controls the amount of paint applied to the patterned roller. This process is called positive paint application.

Decorative paint application can be used on the whole wall or to create a border at ceiling level. The patterns on the roller can actually make your wall look like it was wall papered, but you don’t have the problem of messy glues and misaligned wallpaper lengths. You also don’t have to ever worry about replacing wallpaper which is a laborious job. When tired of your roller paint decorative painting, you can just repaint the room.

Decorative Roller Painting

Decorative roller painting can also create a mottled look on walls which is soft and inviting. You can use a bright or strong base color and then soften it with a softer mottled paint on top. Some decorative wall painting uses a coat of glaze applied over a base coat with a decorative paint roller. This is called “loading”. You can also use a negative paint application technique which is when you remove some of the wet glaze you just applied using a decorative roller or rag to create a new design.

Other decorative roller painting techniques include “color washing” and “broken color” techniques. Color washing makes a new color look faded and washed out so the wall looks aged. Broken color painting techniques use several colors applied over a base paint using a roller that creates a textured look. The overlay colors can be glazes or washes. Glazes are made with oil based paints and washes are latex paint thinned with water.

With decorative roller painting you can create cloud walls and ceilings, antique finishes or any other faux finish you want. This kind of painting adds a very special decorating touch to your décor that can enhance any room in the house. You can easily do this kind of painting with the new rollers and easy to work with paints. But if you are hesitant to start painting your walls, practice on a board or piece of sheetrock first.

You can get plenty of ideas for decorative roller painting online. The pictures let you see how the finished wall should look.