Gładkie wykończenie i farba

So, to do my flat finish what I need are some flat brushes. So I’ve got these, these are my brushes here. You know they’re my brushes because they have my signature on them. They’re very good quality, they’re soft, and they allow you to put a lot of paint on them and smoothly paint. I’ve got a big one, which I’ll do the larger pieces, and the smaller one there. I’ll probably use that for these edges.

Now, there are other brushes on the market which look like my brushes, but they’re not my brushes at all. They don’t have my signature on them. Also they’ve been cut – my brushes haven’t been cut. And these are quite sharp at the edges, so when you brush you don’t get a nice smooth finish, you get a slightly scratchy finish.

It’s quite a shiny surface but I still don’t need to prepare, I don’t need to prime it, I don’t need to do anything – I can go straight on there with this brush.

So I’m going to charge my brush with quite a lot of paint. You’ll find a lot of brush marks – don’t worry about that. I’m going to go up and down, try to get it as smooth as I can.

Wipe it gently (it’s called feathering) – so that I’m hardly touching. If you press down hard, even to that degree, what you’ll get are lines. So that’s why, you see, I’m brushing at that sort of angle. If you do too many it starts picking up on the paint which is drying, so you’ll start getting a rolled finish.

You never quite know with a wood how many coats you’re going to need. Usually one coat will do. This is quite a shiny surface, and the colour is relatively light, so I’m going to need two. I’m going to get rid of the excess paint. And now I’m going to brush every which way and just get rid of any excess.