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Texture Painting with Drywall Spackle

• By Joan
• June 14, 2023
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Texture Painting with Drywall Spackle

Welcome back friends.  Here you see my latest dump find, a very large, 32″ x 47″, piece originally from Pier 1 Imports.  Ignoring the mold all over the top, it will be a great piece to try a little experimental, drywall spackle texture painting.

Gold and mold are really not my colors so I’m not feeling too bad about his upcoming modifications.

Before working with the piece I did scrub it down, first with vinegar and then with bleach to kill and remove the mold.

When I picked up this discarded piece I was immediately reminded of a few of my Pinterest pins.  This person started out with a fancy stencil and used some kind of spackle or plaster to make a textured piece of wall art.  For mine, the first part, the fancy stencil, was already done for me, I just had to add a little texture and paint layers.

The last time I did a textured stencil was a butterfly for a twin headboard.

Here are a few more ideas to get you in the texture painting mood.  Here, here and here.

I didn’t have too much drywall spackle in my stash to work with,  just enough to cover a big swoosh down the center of my artwork.

I didn’t have any fancy stencils like my inspiration piece to make a unique texture but I did have a log.  I just rolled the log right over the wet spackle.

I still had a little bit more drywall mud in my tub, why not add one more texture to the corner.  A fern frond pressed gently into the mud a few times gives one more area of interest.

Let the drywall spackle dry completely before painting.

Time for paint. I gave the entire piece a coat of dark gray chalk paint.  Why chalk paint?  That’s what I had on hand, though any flat paint should do for this project.

Once the gray was dry, I watered down some black paint and dabbed that over top of the gray to give more shadow to the piece.  Painting on and dabbing off the extra with a paper towel worked really well.

More layers!  Now I wanted the aged patina of  antique wax.  Water that down as well and dab off the excess.  That’s the antique wax in the lower, right corner.

A few black dabs, a few white dabs.  Always watered down and always rubbing off the excess.

My last color. Sparingly I added a little blue to the mix, once again watering it down and dabbing off the excess.  If the antique wax is still wet it will blend right in.

And this is the final product.  I would love to do this as an accent wall.  Maybe even try a few more colors.

Hope you enjoyed this texture painting technique.  Until next time, stay inspired.

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