furniture recipes..drybrushing

a lot of the stuff w e paint has surface problems.... we solve that by filling the depressions...like where veneer is missing on dressers......with woodfiller mostly, then sanding......but it will often show under a coat of paint..

..thats where dry brushing saves the day..

..we pick a closely related color to the base coat...and just drybrush it over the original color......walla....lots of problems covered, and a nice casual look....drybrush means take most of the paint off the brush then brush it over the surface....leaving lots of your first color showing...

to get a close color i like to add brown or white to the base color...then its perfectly related....i would not like a big contrast..

this piece, one of our greenhouse showcases....started out tile red...then we threw some brown paint in to the red for the drybrush coat...