How to Make a Drizzled Pattern With Latex Paint

Painting provides affordable and virtually limitless creation of color and design inside and outside a home. Instead of boring walls in a single color, bump up your interior decor with walls that feature a multitude of color. Using the same technique for splattering paint on the wall, if you increase the amount of paint on the splattering tool, you can make a drizzled pattern with latex paint.

Drop cloth
Plastic
Painter’s tape
Latex paint for base coat (optional) and drizzles
Paint roller (optional)
Buckets
Plastic gloves
Scrub brush
4-inch flat paintbrush

Instructions

- 1
  Spread the drop cloth over the floor beneath the walls where you will work. Tape plastic over the ceiling and adjacent walls to protect these areas from possible splattered paint.
- 2
  Apply a base coat of paint to the wall with the paint roller, if necessary. Use a light base coat if you're going to use darker or brighter latex colors for the drizzles. Use a dark base coat if you're going to use lighter latex colors for the drizzles. Allow the base coat of paint to dry completely before you continue painting.
- 3
  Choose the colors you want to drizzle onto the wall -- use one color or a combination of two or more for a multi-colored effect. Place each paint color into a separate small bucket. Add water by the tablespoon to each bucket to thin the paint slightly -- about 1 tablespoon of water for each 1/2 cup of paint.
- 4
  Wear gloves as you work with the drizzling tools. Dip the bristles of the scrub brush or the paintbrush into a paint color to load the bristles lightly. Stand on the stepladder and hold either brush about 1 foot away from the wall. Drag your fingers across the bristles to send the paint splattering against the wall. Use enough paint to make the splatters drip and drizzle down the wall surface. Continue this process along the top of the wall to add drizzles of one color to the wall.
- 5
  Stand back and assess the drizzles. Depending on the thickness of the paint and the amount you applied, the paint should be dripping and drizzling down the wall -- thinner paint applied in greater concentration will drizzle more while thicker paint applied in lesser concentration will drizzle less.
- 6
  Add more drizzles below the top tier of drizzles. Each time you add drizzles, stand back and assess before you continue adding more. Work until you create the amount of drizzles you desire with the first color and then allow it to dry before you continue.
- 7
  Add new drizzle colors one at a time, allowing each color to dry before you add more. Continue working until the wall looks the way you want.
- 8
  Remove the plastic and painter’s tape after you finish drizzling the wall.

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