How To Paint Furniture Like A Pro - Paint Application - Part 2 Furniture Painting Course

 Hey there and welcome back to this
second video today I'm going to show you how to paint
the tables that we prepped in our first video Before you open your paint can, you want to shake it really well. Turn it upside down and shake it for about a minute. Then after opening it stir it well so that
all contents are mix well together I'm going to pour out some paint into this
plastic cup. You want to avoid painting straight out
of the can as you may contaminate the entire can of paint if you do that.

I also wanted to show you
how to hold a brush properly. You don't want to hold it near the end, you wanna hold it right by
the base almost like a pencil grip, your thumb is on the back and your other fingers are on the front and
by holding it like that that gives you a lot of control. The color that I'm go to be using as a
base coat for this table is Dark Roast. This is a beautiful dark
grayish brown that this almost black.

As you can see I'm
covering about half way up the bristles. You want to make
sure that you have a nice paint amount on your brush. But you also don't want to overdo it. If
your brush is overloaded you'll start getting drips
and those aren't very pretty.

I want you to keep in mind that the
climate you are working in has a huge influence on your final finish. You don't want to work in a temperature
that is too hot as it will make the dry too quickly. You also want to avoid heating in high humidity as that will mean your paint may not dry
at all! It is best to work at room temperature and definitely not in direct sunlight.
Make sure the humidity isn't higher than eighty percent the temperature is around
68 degrees or 20 degrees Celsius. For our next table I'm going to use
to color Delightful, which I would describe as and nice robin's egg blue.

We're going to open it up and stir it, and then I'm going to pour some  in a plastic cup. I grabbed myself a brush and and what I'm going to do first is paint the top first and when you're painting you always want to make sure your going in one direction on your piece. If
you're going cross-wise, it means
you'll get a lot texture in your finish, and maybe that is what you want. But if you want it smooth, it is better to use long strokes.

What I'm doing here, you can't really see probably, but there are ridges in here, and I just need to push to
paint into. While you're painting, you want to
make sure that you don't continue to go over the parts that have already started
to dry. Our paint dries very quickly, and you'll
end up getting brushstrokes if you do so. By keeping a wet edge you'll make sure
to get the smoothest finish.

Oftentimes you'll find that you can cover a project with a single coat and
it does depend a lot on the surface that you're painting and this table that I painted in Delightful I can still see some of the wood coming
through and I want this to cover really nicely
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and give this piece a second coat. If you are working in
warm weather and you absolutely have to paint your project that
day, then you can add some extra water to your paint which will increase the open time
meaning it will dry it less quickly. Our paint has almost no odor and it is
safe to use indoors, although I would suggest a little
ventilation just in case. Okay well that was  it for this second video! Thanks so much
again for watching! I hope you're going to come back to our
third video and in that video I'm going to show you how to
layer a different color over top of this base color and then I'm going to also
cover different distressing techniques so I hope to see you then!.