Decorative painting

I plan to use the sponge-on technique, with one or two coats over the latex base coat. Almost everything I've read talks about using glazes over the base coat, with glaze meaning a transparent "paint" that I would tint to which ever color I choose, using separately bought coloring agents.

Rather than going to this trouble and expense, why can't I simply have a paint dealer tint a latex paint of the same sheen to the color I want, selected from one of those ubiquitous color cards that all paint stores display?

Thanks,

Ray

You can't get precisely the same effect using glaze vs. paint. Some techniques require the base color to show and take on only a trasparent effect of the glaze color. For sponging, unless you want a very suble effect, paint would be the best choice. A glaze with a heavy mix of paint sponged on might give you more of the second color than if you take straight paint and sponge it on very lightly. The whole idea of a glaze is to be able to give a transparent tint - if you thinned paint with water for the transparent effect, it wouldn't have enough binder to stick, thus the glaze. Your way sounds fine.

I've used paint over paint. Works well.

This is a good question for the ladies at the beauty shop...)

My limited understanding is that without using a glaze, one color paint can absorb another color. By glazing you maintain the base color. As mentioned the transparency / translucence effect.

If colors bleed together; it may not be what you desired.

Housewives I've seen that faux paint, always include the glazing process.

Thanks, everyone.

This is the only site of the dozen or so I've visited that actually recommended latex second and third coats rather than glazes for sponging on.

Sponging with colors; is not the same as faux panting with glaze. You will do fine.

With a sponge and a dab of paint you can make the job look any way you want. Hard to mess it up :)

Thats what pros do, but a final coat might be different, its all paint, cheap water base stuff, tint is free, or go where it is,