You will get areas that you can no longer feather out because the area has dried too much. You can do this gently or a little harder. When the lime wash that you applied starts to get absorbed by the wall, when it's between being very wet and damp, feather out any brush marks that the brush made. You can do this unevenly or uniformly depending on the style you're trying to create. It doesn't have to look good at this point, just spread some over the whole area. With your brush,apply a thin or medium layer of lime wash in horizontal and vertical direction. You'll notice that the wall absorbs the water unevenly.
Spray enough on the wall to make it wet rather than just damp. Spray water over a section of arms reach on your dried last coat of Marmorino or Stucco. The wall will immediately absorb the first few sprays of water. Keep feathering out brush strokes as it dries As long as the wall is wet, you can work it.Ģ. The two most important things to keep in mind when lime washing are:ġ. You can always keep reapplying lime wash until you get what you're looking for. It's very important that you play with it on a sample board before doing the wall.
If you put two layers of different colors over each other, red and blue for example, will get translucent variation of those colors with a hint of purple. 2 or more coats of the same color can completely cover the previous color. Some if not most areas will reveal the base coat of plaster that you're covering. When lime washing, you're applying very thin layers of product. You can use natural or synthetic bristled brushes, but make sure you get a decent quality brush so the bristles don't pull out. Good hand water sprayers are easily found at garden supply stores. Spray bottle or sprayer machine (like an airless sprayer), preferably a large one that's easy to spray. You can get color variation and mottling by compressing or burnishing if you want. Lime wash is almost like a super thin coat of Veneziano applied with a brush. If you let the wall dry too much, you can have a harder time getting rid of the brush strokes. The biggest trick to lime washing is to keep the wall wet so that the lime wash remains workable. It will look like you've painted squares. Lime Wash is traditionally applied with a big brush, but can also be ragged on. Visit the Lime Wash gallery for samples and ideas. It can be used like a glaze, leaving pockets of color in rougher patches of the underlying plaster, or can also be used as a medium for murals. Lime wash can be polished to a soft rich shine or can be left as a flat, natural finish. Although it does not seal like an oil-based sealer, acrylic, or wax, it does add a layer of protection. Lime wash can give soft translucent color variation to plaster, or it can be applied to where the original color of the plaster is radically changed.
It can be used as a subtle color wash, it can completely change the existing color of the wall or it can rejuvenate exterior Vasari plaster fixing possible weathering or checking. It cannot be applied over our Veneziano. Lime wash is a very historic and traditional product. We don't recommend it over anything else. Lime Was h is specifically designed for coating Vasari Marmorino or Stucco. USE A DUST MASK OR RESPIRATOR WHEN WORKING WITH DRY GOODS. SAFETY FIRST: ALWAYS WEAR LATEX GLOVES AND GOGGLES WHEN WORKING WITH VASARI LIME WASH.
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