Use Floetrol in your paint as an extender, or better yet make a glaze instead. You will have a longer open time (work time) A glaze is a clear medium that you can put paint or preferably pigments into. For smooth transitions, use this formula: Color A, Color B, Color C, Color D. Go up the wall with Color A (but not 1/4 of the wall, only a small section), then mix 50/50 Color B with Color A and do a section, then do a section with Color B, then mix 50/50 Color C with Color B and do a section, then a section with Color C, so on and so forth. Use a blending brush not a stiff paint brush on the transitions. You had good harmony between your colors. To see if you colors are harmonious and when blended will not create an ugly color mix them on a plate 50/50. If you know color theory, you know that when all three primary colors are present the color can get muddy. You can get mud when one of your color selections contains even a small amount of the missing third primary. For example: do not go from green to orange. Green contains both blue and yellow, and orange (red and yellow)adds the third primary red to the mix. The result will be brown. Keep on doing it!
A side by side roller with each color on each roller. Also a giant sponge dipped top in one color and bottom on another then stamp repeatedly blurrs any colors together. Even your very light at the top
Wow thanks! This really helps. I'm moving into a new house soon and I wanted to make an artificial night sky in my room but had no idea how to make the gradient on the walls.
Hi Anne, I was thinking to do a sea scene for my kids, I had in mind to just have the base darker blue and then add in white paint as I go up the wall to the ceiling. Which to my mind you could have done in your example. Is it that there is a need to work at speed as the reason to not do that?
This came out really good!!! The only hurdle I see is blending to whatever color the wall is. However this would’ve came out even better if one more color had been added between the white and the color just below it. When learning how to blend in painting I found that jumping too far on the color scale as opposed to using a closer “neighbor” things where easier to blend. When the colors were relatively further apart I found myself forcing them to blend. IE pink and white transitioned a lot easier than red white . But if red is the starting point and white is the end point then I would buy 2 cans of red 2 cans of white 1 can of white for blending only 1 empty can. I would mix them for 5 stages. 1 red can no mix 1 red can mix 25% white 1 can 50/50 1 white can mix 25% red 1 white can no mix Then I would probably say every swear word and invent a few while blending 🤣
Great vid, but this gradient is not good enough, i'm going to look further for another better way, tutorial, or follow the advice from @coinholio6863 here in the comments
Definitely one of the best blended ombré paint jobs I've seen yet. Congratulations!
Use Floetrol in your paint as an extender, or better yet make a glaze instead. You will have a longer open time (work time) A glaze is a clear medium that you can put paint or preferably pigments into. For smooth transitions, use this formula: Color A, Color B, Color C, Color D. Go up the wall with Color A (but not 1/4 of the wall, only a small section), then mix 50/50 Color B with Color A and do a section, then do a section with Color B, then mix 50/50 Color C with Color B and do a section, then a section with Color C, so on and so forth. Use a blending brush not a stiff paint brush on the transitions. You had good harmony between your colors. To see if you colors are harmonious and when blended will not create an ugly color mix them on a plate 50/50. If you know color theory, you know that when all three primary colors are present the color can get muddy. You can get mud when one of your color selections contains even a small amount of the missing third primary. For example: do not go from green to orange. Green contains both blue and yellow, and orange (red and yellow)adds the third primary red to the mix. The result will be brown. Keep on doing it!
A side by side roller with each color on each roller. Also a giant sponge dipped top in one color and bottom on another then stamp repeatedly blurrs any colors together. Even your very light at the top
Wow thanks! This really helps.
I'm moving into a new house soon and I wanted to make an artificial night sky in my room but had no idea how to make the gradient on the walls.
I'm thinking of doing this in my open floorplan living room/kitchen so this was super helpful!
Best ombre painted wall video I've seen. I've just watched a few and yours was definitely the 👌
thank you for sharing. this is what i was wanting to see
Oh darling that is AMAZING! You shoud be proud of this way BIG TIME!
Great job! Very inspiringly easy. Thanks for making it look doable...I will definitely try this.
Awesome, I Loved this! I'm gonna try it for my Studio.
I've never seen it done with rollers! Nice!
Looks great
Girl!! That is beautiful!!!🎇🌠🎆
Ok honey. I’m commenting. Great job and your tutorial was clear. Not my color choices but valuable tips and techniques. 💕
Awesome creation! Remember no one technique is perfect. Envision your reality. A. For effort.
Loved your wall...looked fab...love from the UK 🇬🇧
Hey; attitude and experience! That’s how we learn everything.
Hi Anne, I was thinking to do a sea scene for my kids, I had in mind to just have the base darker blue and then add in white paint as I go up the wall to the ceiling.
Which to my mind you could have done in your example. Is it that there is a need to work at speed as the reason to not do that?
This turned out perfect. Now I now how to do my wall. Thank you
This came out really good!!! The only hurdle I see is blending to whatever color the wall is. However this would’ve came out even better if one more color had been added between the white and the color just below it. When learning how to blend in painting I found that jumping too far on the color scale as opposed to using a closer “neighbor” things where easier to blend. When the colors were relatively further apart I found myself forcing them to blend. IE pink and white transitioned a lot easier than red white . But if red is the starting point and white is the end point then I would buy
2 cans of red
2 cans of white
1 can of white for blending only
1 empty can.
I would mix them for 5 stages.
1 red can no mix
1 red can mix 25% white
1 can 50/50
1 white can mix 25% red
1 white can no mix
Then I would probably say every swear word and invent a few while blending 🤣
So pretty 😍
😊 I actually think you did a great job! I'm trying it today.
Love the tutorial! Your wall came out beautifully! ✨
Great job! This is the inspiration I needed for my living room!
thank you!! Please tag me on insta if you recreate! I'd love to see how you decorate!
Luv it❤
Thank you for posting! My son wanted this & I had no clue. This really helped.
I love it! I have something similar planned with blue start dark and ending with white.
This is gorgeous!! Great job Anne
I love the color!!!
I love it. It looks awesome!
you're beautiful 😍 and your art is way beautiful 👀💗
Great job! Super cute!!
You did a great job! Thank you for posting.
You did good! I learned how to do it.
Love it
Mariah goehring like disney princess. Pink shade color paintings, rose garden
Beautiful. I love it. Mine is 4 th comment and this is first time l am recently subscribe u.
I love the gradient effect. Sooooooooo beautiful 🥰🥰🥰
Only if this is your only wall. If you're doing many areas, you have to have your lights and darks separate brush and rollers
Wanna do it but with lime green to white ❤
looks nice but i wasnt able to see how you blended cuz of the speed up
The pink and the light yellow color made me hungry😊😊
I want to do a gradient wall, but now I am having second thoughts 🤣 it looks hard to do
Best I saw
Nice dear
Nice
Loved this!!💞
Please make a vídeo painting ALL your house
Why not include the moulding?
Ahould of used flotrol
eyebrow brush
Great vid, but this gradient is not good enough, i'm going to look further for another better way, tutorial, or follow the advice from @coinholio6863 here in the comments