Hi all! I heard you were talking about me over here.
I did a pseudo lazure technique on Anja's room. Basically, what that means is that I was cheap and didn't buy the more expensive materials. The process was the same, and the results are imo, just as nice . And we save a ton of $.
I used regular latex paint for the base. I did get extremely pale tints instead of white as used in classic lazure. Instead of the pigments, I used those acrylic paints they have in the wood painting section of Michael's. I watered them down to be fairly thin, but not so much that it would drip when brushed on. I used a large natural bristle brush that I got at home depot. It was fairly rough - definately not what you would want to do a 'smooth finish'. It was very inexpensive. When you dip your brush into the 'wash' color you get is just wet enough to have color on your brush but not at all soaked. A dry brush sort of thing. Then you take that color and lightly and broadly stroke it over the base color. You apply thin, light layers of color - letting the layers completely dry between applications. It is very time consuming to let the layers dry, but it is important or you will end up just mixing them together instead of laying them on top of each other.
In the picture in the thread Jennifer linked too you can see how the color goes from lighter pink to darker, then to a purple'ish to blue on the ceiling. The base paint was a pale lavender on the walls and pale blue on the ceiling. I did a few light pink layers first, gradually rising up the beginning of each layer to make a fade effect up the wall. Then I did a combination of more pinks and added in the blues to get the purple tones and that graduated to just blue layers on the ceiling. (the camera angle and flash made part of the purple area look washed out but it is a consistent fade from pink to purple to blue IRL.
Not shown in the picture is the green wall when it is finished. I just put a few green tint layers on the green section. I used a green with some yellow tones so it looks very sweet.
For classic lazure you would use the same techniques I used, but instead of latex you would use a casein paint white base and casein pigments on top. You can buy them from Bioshield or other places.
http://www.bioshieldpaint.com/catalo...ath=19&&page=1
I have heard very good things about the bioshield paints. And looking at their website it appears that they are having a good sale, so it may be a good time to do the real thing if you are interested.
I know I found a tutorial somewhere online. It was a pdf file.... I will look around tomorrow if I can remember and see if I can't find it again for you.
Lazure is so much fun. Time consuming, yes, but the end result is so worth it. It adds incredible dimension and life to a room.
So who has actually done lazure? Can I get the 411?
hope you can deciper it.
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