Reimagined Monday is a favourite day around
the Boutique, but it is even more fun when we get to share a 'trade secret'. With typical humbled wonderment, Marian Parsons (aka
Miss Mustard Seed) gets straight to the point and lets us all in on how she created the finish on a stunning Empire dresser that took our breath away.
In her own words, here are the goods...
Trickery | Vaseline Resist Technique
Well, I received another oh-crap-call from Lucketts on Saturday. The Painted Empire dresser sold the day after I brought it in.
I guess I wasn’t the only one in love with that finish! Here’s how I did it…
I’ve heard about using Vaseline
(petroleum jelly) as a paint resist for a while, but I never tried it.
On this empire dresser, I pictured layers of blue and wanted to have
clear definition between the two colors. This seemed like a good piece
to test it out on. I painted the first coat of paint in Flow Blue with
the bonding agent added to all of the paint except for what I used on
the drawers (I wanted some selective chippiness.) I then rubbed some
Vaseline over the edges of the piece and around some of the key holes
and other random spots.
I don’t think there’s a specific time
frame to let the Vaseline sit before painting on the second coat, but I
decided to wait about an hour to give it some time to dry.
I painted on a second coat, this time in
French Enamel without the bonding agent added. I brushed the paint on
gently where the Vaseline had been applied. On the drawers where the
bonding agent wasn’t used, Milk Paint did its wonderful chippy thing…
…and where the Vaseline was…
…total coolness.
When I sanded the piece with a medium
grit sanding sponge, the French Enamel paint that was over the Vaseline
came off, showing the Flow Blue underneath. That, combined with the
chippiness where the bonding agent wasn’t used and the places I sanded
the paint down to the wood made a very interesting finish that looked as
if it had developed over time.
I wiped the surface with a cloth (it was a little gummy where the Vaseline was) and then applied one coat of Furniture Wax.
I can’t wait to try this bit of trickery again!
We've never tried this technique with
Milk Paint but now it is on our list of things to give a whirl.
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