How to make the Venetian plaster

How to make the Venetian plaster

It is for certain unknown who has thought up the first the Venetian plaster. Also there are no data and on when it happened. Only what with confidence it is possible to claim - the fact that already in Renaissance the Italian masters had skills of "painting of marbled walls". This art is available also to us.

  • Trowel, wax, color, plaster.

1. Mix necessary quantity of color and plaster. Before applying the Venetian plaster, it is necessary to process carefully chosen surface – wall-paper to remove, zashkurit old coats of paint. That the refined covering as is possible was linked to the basis better, it is necessary to put primer previously.

2. Apply on the middle of trowel (the steel blade with the wooden handle intended for solution leveling) small amount of solution of plaster (approximately - about half of palm). Lean it against the processed surface at an angle about thirty degrees. Conduct trowel on surface, strongly pressing the tool.

3. Make the following dab the tool in the direction perpendicular to the previous dab. In about 10 minutes wipe trowel damp rag. Thus all surface is processed, at the same time it is necessary not to allow roughnesses. The layer of the Venetian plaster if its thickness no more than 0.05 mm, it has to appear through almost is considered good.

4. Tint the following part of the Venetian plaster approximately in 6-12 hours after the drying put earlier. The second layer becomes a little more darkly or is lighter previous at the expense of what the unusual "marble" effect is reached. Put the second coating layer. The quantity of layers is usually from three to ten. After drawing the last let's it dry out 15 minutes then pass to polish of surface.

5. Take trowel, dispose it almost horizontally to surface and conduct with the maximum pressing on earlier put covering. Thus process all site with the Venetian plaster. The tool should be moved in various directions.

6. Apply wax week later. Make it by means of trowel the same multidirectional dabs. It is not necessary to put wax too densely as in these parts after drying dark stains will be formed. Suede mitten with pressing process with circular motions all surface.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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