methods for the zigzags

At times I was just hating Sherwin Williams for doing this to me with their paints.  I COULDN'T use painters' tape.  I was using a metal straight edge thing that painters use to make a straight paint line.  But  it wasn't easy.

 There is still some messiness here.  I went back over a good many areas with a small fine arts brush.

Chevron Pattern

I agreed to do a currently popular design called a Chevron pattern.   Unfortunately for me, I didn't know that I would not be able to use painters' tape with this new Sherwin Williams paint.  But before I knew this,  I tried using Frog tape to mark the points of the design.

These pieces were falling off.  So next I just pencilled in the lines.  

 I used a laser level as well as an ordinary hand-held level to get it exact all the way across the wall and the 45 degree angles.  Each diagonal line is as close to 12" as I can get it.  The height of each layer is 8"tall and 8" wide.

Am I done with this one?

I'm hoping I am done.

To get this smeary effect with these paints, I need to remember to do this add-paint-in-strips trick.  It's almost the only good way to make the blended (smeary) look of the 2 white-pink lines on the above pic.

Next come the lighter streaks

These paints dry so fast that it works better to load 2 different color paints onto a foam brush then drag it across the ceiling. If I want to blend further than that then I'm putting just retarder on a clean foam brush and lightly dragging this across the area.  

( Pushing down will just lift the paint back off)

Still gotta put the streaks through it to make it look tie-dye. It may not look 13ft x 13ft, but it is.

Going to more expensive paints

Sometimes you've got to

use the more expensive paints.  I had to go buy the Blickyrlic Studio Paints to get the right

opacity and blending quality.  I used those paints here for the blue section and green/blue

interface areas.

Think I know what I'm doing.

Ummm..... uhh.... I think I know where I'm going with this.  I'm using Blickyrlic Florescent paints.

13 x 13 feet