| Applying stucco to a surface greatly enhances its | | | | design if you don't like it and it is still wet just |
| looks. For example you have a wall somewhere that | | | | reconfigure the swirls and dabs and droops and sags, |
| you just simply don't know what color to paint it or it's | | | | but don't do the whole wall before you decide to alter |
| in such bad condition you can't make the wall look | | | | your artwork, the "artistic swipes" of your blade |
| good but you want it or willing to make it to look | | | | because it will be dry and won't work well. |
| different. Or let's go one step farther - let's supposed | | | | By the way you can mix some latex paint into the |
| this wall is made of wood. Now this could be a real | | | | stucco to give it color, furthermore you can take |
| problem. This wood doesn't look like the rest of the | | | | different colored stucco and apply them over each |
| walls so this is a good candidate for stucco. | | | | other after each layer dries, this would give it a neat |
| Stuccoing can be a lot of fun and creative just like it | | | | effect. But the trick here is make the different layers |
| was in grade 3 with the paints and stuff the teacher | | | | of colored stucco flat so you can apply the next layer |
| gave us to paint with. You can just take your | | | | evenly. You can build a multi-level multi-color terrain |
| imagination and a plaster knife loaded with stucco and | | | | stucco wall giving the wall depth and shadow. People |
| just smear it on, and this is where your creative juices | | | | will ask you how you painted all the inside part of the |
| start flowing. You can swirl a a blade loaded with | | | | artwork But you won't tell them you put the different |
| stucco, dab the blade of stucco smear the blade etc. | | | | colors on 1 at a time wit colored plaster. |
| etc. All you have to do is stand back and look at your | | | | |