How Do You Faux Paint By Dragging?
Dragging is a faux-painting technique that produces thin, vertical stripes on the wall. It works best on wood paneling or a smooth wall surface. Paint the wall a solid color. This will be your background color. Select an acrylic paint color that contrasts nicely with the background color. Prepare and tint glaze with the acrylic paint you have chosen to create your desired glaze color. Tape a plastic drop cloth to the baseboard of the wall you are painting to protect the trim and the floor from drips. Brush the glaze onto the wall, covering a 2-foot-wide strip from top to bottom. Use a crisscross pattern, brushing top to bottom, then side to side, then top to bottom again over the same strip. Stand directly in front of the wall area that you covered with glaze in step 5. Pull or drag a wide brush downward through the wet glaze, pressing hard enough to slightly bend the bristles. Keep a steady hand so that the stripes made by the brush bristles stay parallel. Wipe the excess glaze off th
