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What paints are better to use for wall painting

I am often asked various questions about wall painting. There are a lot of questions and they are often repeated, so I decided to answer everyone at once, writing in my blog about each aspect of the painting separately. Today I’ll answer about paints 🙂

So, let’s start with the most common question: “Aaron, what paints should be used to paint the walls so that they stick and don’t wash off?”

I will try to answer as much as possible capturing all the nuances. To begin with, it’s worth figuring out what characteristics wall paint should have, and these are:

1. GRIP TO THE SURFACE (wall) so that when dry it does not fall off and does not smear, without remaining on the fingers. It also depends on the preparation of the wall, but I will talk about this later.
2. SHIPPING – how many layers of paint will cover the area without gaps.
3. COLOR SATURATION – the paint must provide the ability to mix colors, both muted and bright and saturated.
4. DISPERSION – this is how coarse or fine the paint is to pass through the airbrush nozzle, but this is only relevant for airbrushing, for a brush this factor is practically not important.

These are perhaps the most important characteristics in choosing paint for painting. Depending on the specifics of the room or the facade of the building, there may still be different requirements for paint, but let’s not go too deep!

Acrylic paint meets these four characteristics!

Personally, for wall painting I use high-quality building acrylic (water-based paint) from Dulux or Tikkurila, in combination with Exmix art paints for airbrushing.

Now I’ll tell you about each separately.

And so, construction acrylic! Why not artistic, you ask?

The answer is: construction acrylic of a good company is much cheaper than art acrylic. It’s one thing if you are given the task of painting 2 square meters. meters of the wall, no question, thin. Acrylic might work. But when it comes to 10 sq. meters or more, and most often they order large volumes, then artistic acrylic will hit your pocket great! Then, building acrylic is much easier to buy, construction supermarkets and shops, you see, more than art shops. Even in such a large and developed city as Moscow, you can often spend a whole day getting to only one place 😉 One day I still tried thin. acrylic firm POLYCOLOR “Maimeri”. They have a large color palette, but the paint is weakly opaque, I spent a lot of time overlapping one area, it was great “pissing me off” 🙂

Another BIG PLUS of building paint is its durability! And if it is covered with a protective varnish, then the painting can even be washed! Paints from Dulux or Tikkurila provide excellent white bases to which you add “to taste” colors that you also buy in hardware stores.

Speaking of colors, most of them are bad, and they won’t make bright saturated colors, but of all that I personally used, TEX colors “Koler Paste” and “Unicoler” do a good job. I don’t cooperate with the above companies in any way, I don’t advertise them, I just give good advice, because I tried a lot of colors and settled on these 🙂

The main thing in choosing building paint is not to buy latex by chance, it DOES NOT SUIT for us for painting! I also strongly recommend not to paint walls painted with latex paint!

Now about the SECOND component – Exmix airbrush paint. This paint is already from the category of professional paints for airbrushing. It is suitable for painting various surfaces, including walls, plastic and even metal. The latter require their own technology for preparing for painting and fixing.

But we’ll focus on the walls 🙂

The paint has a palette of stunningly vibrant colors! It’s great for small nozzle airbrushes, it’s WATER based and mixes great with builder’s acrylic!

It has a rather biting price tag, but it is very economical and its performance is simply impressive! So I highly recommend!

It is also possible to use enamel paint from cylinders (for example, for graffiti). Its advantages: wear resistance, hiding power and color saturation. Of the minuses: SMELL and ACID (you can’t wash off without a solvent !!!) If you paint the facade in the fresh air, then it’s good, but indoors the painting turns into substance abuse (even in a respirator) and most often the rooms for painting are functioning and customers don’t want to inhale all these fumes and spray on the furniture.

Can paint is excellent for NON-DETAIL painting on the facade or indoors in the process of renovation. Personally, I hardly use cans, but there are orders where it is necessary to use pungent-smelling paint in small quantities.

And so, as we see, high-quality materials are needed for high-quality painting, you should never save on this, the result directly depends on this and, of course, on the skill of the artist 🙂

In the next article, I will describe what incidental materials and equipment are used for wall painting in my studio “Aron Honore”.

Thank you for your attention! 🙂

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So, let’s start in order.

You have decided to draw a picture on the wall.

Wall preparation:
Ideally, the wall should be painted before painting. If not, then primer and paint
. It is better to take the primer from the same manufacturer as the paint. Usually, for each
paint, the manufacturer offers a specific primer. So you definitely can’t go wrong. Painting is best done
acrylic paint, even latex-based.

Fig. 1. Base paint, white for walls.

Painting:
Nowadays, all paintings are done with acrylic paint. There are a lot of varieties of them, but I can say that the differences between them are not as great as the differences in their cost.
What can we use for wall painting:

1. The first and main thing we need is base wall paint (Fig. 1). I usually use base
Dulux or Tikkurila paint. I do not use domestic paints, although they are cheaper, but when
dries in a mixture with other paints, they give a strong color change and have poor hiding power. I mean white or dark gray paint as base paint, to which I add other colors already in
. For very dark shades, there is a special
base for dark shades (dark grey).

Fig. 2. Universal colors.

2. Universal colors . These are colors that are sold in small bottles. Usually they can
tint any type of paint (oil, alkyd, acrylic and others). There is also a color scheme purely for
acrylic, in a larger container. All colors are usually simply added by eye to the paint until the desired color is obtained
.

*This is mainly needed to reduce the cost of the work. With the help of colors and base paint,
can be mixed and painted over the main spots without transferring expensive artistic acrylic to it.

3. Art acrylic . You can use any, but, sadly, imported, in my opinion,
is better. When the budget for painting is not large, then our “Ladoga” is quite suitable. If funds allow, take
German Schmincke or Italian Maimeri.

3. Acrylic paints from various manufacturers.

All acrylic paints can be mixed together and with acrylic based wall paints.
When working with brushes, white is Dulux or Tikkurila for walls, the rest is acrylic from jars and
tubes. You can make a painting with pure wall paints, but they are sold at least by the liter, and
happens that you need just a little paint.

4. Tempera . It can also be used when painting walls, but it comes out much more expensive. Plus
tempera that it has a high hiding power. There are no transparent colors in tempera at all. In
paintings I use white tempera where I need to make bright spots and highlights, and dark for
precise strokes. Acrylic and tempera can be mixed together. Although they have a different basis, but
many years of experience have shown that these mixtures are perfectly preserved.

5. For those who use an airbrush, I can recommend airbrush paints . All paints that
are sold on the Russian market are quite good. I used: Exmix, Aero Color, Airmaster,
Bugton, Schmincke. They are divided into two groups. Some are acrylic based, others are solvent based. Those
that are acrylic based are thinned with water and can be mixed with any other paints for
water based. Those that are solvent based are diluted with a special thinner or 646
thinner (they cannot be mixed with acrylic paints), but they can be painted over
acrylic paints. The advantage of solvent-based paints is that they are very bright and saturated, they do not change color when dried.

Fig. 4. Exmix airbrush paints (the peculiarity of these paints is that they also have pleasant smells).

6. After finishing, any painting should be covered with interior acrylic lacquer. I use:
PANEELI-ASSA from Tikkurila. Covered with a roller or brush in several layers.

I wish you all success in your creative work.