My husband and I went to Home Depot and took a bunch of earth toned color swatches and went through them and decided to stick with our brown and tan tones. For some reason we are both drawn to earthy colors. Well long story short, we painted our hallways, kitchen, and dining room these beautiful brown and tan tones and it turned out amazingly!
Well I had about a quarter of each color left in each can. I didn't want to throw away what was left, so I went on YouTube and looked up painting techniques. I came across a company called The Woolie Company. They have a really great video collection of techniques that you can do with their patent brush, The Woolie. I fell in love with their technique called, Color Meshing. I didn't wanted to pay the price that they sold their brush for so I decided to keep looking. Well with some luck, I found a wool mitten used for painting and staining at Home Depot, which was perfect to do this project!
Ever since I finished my first wall with this technique, I found out its super easy and it looks amazing.
So to start, if you don't have a color that can be easily color meshed, you'll want to either put a primer on or else just pick a darker tone to neutralize the color underneath.
Next, you'll want to pick three colors. You'll want the to be of the same color. I picked a dark brown, medium milk chocolate brown, and a light tan.
You'll need a large flat bristle brush. I actually used a medium size and it worked just fine.
To start, you'll want to take your brush and dip it in any of the three colors and slap it on the wall. Now it sounds super strange but make sure the colors are dripping down the wall when you put it on. Also, make sure you stagger the colors apart so they mix well.
This is the link if you are interested in Color Meshing!
http://youtu.be/JbAD1dIqfU0