Faux Brick Painting

This request for help is long overdue… I wanted to do the technique of faux moss on bricks and take pictures. Isn’t always better to have visual aids? Of course the mossing technique only took a few minutes, but uploading photos is always on the bottom of the list in my daily projects.

Thanks for your patience Kem… I hope this tutorial is helpful.

 

Dear Debra,

I recently purchased your class on faux bricks. The bricks came out great. I would like to add some moss around the perimeter of the bricks. If you have any suggestions, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,

kem Hubbell

 

A. Before Moss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B. Paint Colors Used

Folkart : Hauser Green Med.

Folkart: Hauser Green Dark

Americana: True Ochre

White and Black

 

 

 

C. Brush in a “mottling” of 3 top colors in the areas you want the dense moss.

 

 

 

 

 

D. The key to good faux moss is texture. Using a small portion of a sea sponge with lots of little “tips” is very helpful. I dipped just the tips into paints and tapped over mossed in areas.

 

 

E. You can see that the sponged areas are over and outside the area originally based in. This gives the impression that the moss is growing.

 

 

 

 

 

F. Now you can see that the white and black were used again to define the bricks and breakouts so the dimension is not lost.

 That all for this tutorial. If I helped you learn something new, why don’t you leave a comment below. It will be fun to talk about your experiences on this open forum!

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