Earth Rug! In the sky
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Concrete Painting--Day 3 --Finished!
I had to hurry and finish today--I don't usually work on Sunday----It was supposed to rain this afternoon but it never happened. Anyway, it pushed me to finish and wowee do I feel it!
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Painting Concrete Patio-Day 2
I couldn't get started until afternoon, but it's working. I can tell the paint has a good adhesion to the floor. I decided to use a little conditoner to thin it down slightly. A paint conditioner will thin it down without watering it down. This makes it soak in to the concrete enough to really become a part of it.
I decided to paint a sky. The circle in the center was going to be a Alabama Crimson Tide insignia, but I am changing that to an earth rug. Maybe I can post that on Day3. We are anxious to get this project done so we can put the furniture back in the porch!
By the way, I am using the paint you see below with a wide paint brush--get a good quality one for outdoor painting. If you look closely in the painting above, you will see my little westie, Solomon.
I decided to paint a sky. The circle in the center was going to be a Alabama Crimson Tide insignia, but I am changing that to an earth rug. Maybe I can post that on Day3. We are anxious to get this project done so we can put the furniture back in the porch!
Friday, June 1, 2012
How to paint a concrete patio
I have prepared the concrete floor of my screened in porch/patio. Ready to begin painting tomorrow.
There was a lot of mildew and crud because it is enclosed space that water still gets in, so this is how I cleaned it: First, sprayed some clorox down, then used a power spray nozzle to jet it right off--cleaned up nicely, but quite a bit of work. Also used a giant squeegee broom to whoosh the dirty water out. Whew am I worn out!
I have painted concrete before. See here outside the enclosed patio is a giant circular rug I painted a couple of years ago. It is constantly exposed to all the elements and has not faded or peeled whatsoever. The concrete is not smooth and I think that helped the adhesion. Also, I used a variety of my acrylic latex cans of paints and even some paint pens for finishing touches. This is a "signature" rug. See one of my other blogs FesmireArtStudio to see more about it.
I'm thinking about painting this floor with a sky---here is a sample of the colors
I will demonstrate this painting tomorrow. The weather will be nice and pleasant so I will aim to get it done. I started to go all expensive and buy concrete paint and the primer you put down, but after some research and the obvious evidence above that acrylic latex works, I will go with some paint I found in my stash---PREMIUM exterior latex enamel and another that is the same but has primer built in--this should work just fine.
There was a lot of mildew and crud because it is enclosed space that water still gets in, so this is how I cleaned it: First, sprayed some clorox down, then used a power spray nozzle to jet it right off--cleaned up nicely, but quite a bit of work. Also used a giant squeegee broom to whoosh the dirty water out. Whew am I worn out!
I have painted concrete before. See here outside the enclosed patio is a giant circular rug I painted a couple of years ago. It is constantly exposed to all the elements and has not faded or peeled whatsoever. The concrete is not smooth and I think that helped the adhesion. Also, I used a variety of my acrylic latex cans of paints and even some paint pens for finishing touches. This is a "signature" rug. See one of my other blogs FesmireArtStudio to see more about it.
I'm thinking about painting this floor with a sky---here is a sample of the colors
I will demonstrate this painting tomorrow. The weather will be nice and pleasant so I will aim to get it done. I started to go all expensive and buy concrete paint and the primer you put down, but after some research and the obvious evidence above that acrylic latex works, I will go with some paint I found in my stash---PREMIUM exterior latex enamel and another that is the same but has primer built in--this should work just fine.
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