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Hi, my name is Dean Sickler and I'm the commercial education specialist at Gold and Paintworks. Today I'm going to be demonstrating the application of metallic texture using just a medi Now the metallic texture itself comes in two bases, both a gold and a pearl base. Today I'm going to be working with a gold base doing a rather deep bronze color here. Now the metallic texture comes in 20 standard colors here which can be made by your Gold and Paintworks supplier but you can generally match almost any paint color with these. Now it's highly recommended that you paint the wall surface first in a color that's compatible or very similar to your final metallic paint color because the metallic texture is somewhat transparent and you can see the base color right through it. So unless you want to apply a very thick opaque first coat, paint your wall surface first. Now when I'm usually applying the metallic texture here and I come to a corner I just work it right around the corner. You can start Also I would recommend if you're right handed to work from the left to the right. That way you can always start your stroke on the dry here and finish off your stroke by floating it off the surface. See All different directions. This truly helps out with the final finish because when you start applying the plaster and you start in the wet But if you start out here and come in here and float you'll leave a somewhat organic looking line which goes along with the actual finish. Okay, let me go ahead and finish this off. And done. Okay, Now the first coat has dried completely. It's been about two and a half hours. I did a fairly opaque and fat coat to cover all the base coat here. Now's the time you want to address any problems you may see, any nail pops or long seams, maybe heavy ridgelines, something You want to take just a small amount of the texture here and just float it over it Okay, now at this point I'm going to start up on the right and work my way left. I've dropped down to a smaller trial now. This is to keep the movement tight and consistent across the whole wall surface. You could use a spatula The trick is to keep it somewhat uniform looking and consistent across the entire wall. So I'll start up here. Okay, now you see the movement that I'm using with this is fairly short strokes. I'm keeping them fairly random also. You want to avoid straight lines If you do get a straight line, you want to come back the opposite way and stretch that out. Okay, over to my land of blade, it's always a movement also Okay, now I'll continue. Okay, before you move on too far, you may want to take the material off your blade here. Just go over some parts just to flatten it out. There, now let this dry for about an hour or so and I'll come back and put on the final third coat. Okay, now the second coat is dry. I turned on an overhead light to look at a little more closely on the shine and honestly it doesn't need a third coat. It's pretty uniform, consistent all the way across the top. If you see any problems with it at this point, you can always just take a little bit of texture here and just float over a patch that you may not It'll blend right in as long as you feather off the edges. You don't leave a big, heavy patch on the wall. Okay, now this is a nice washable surface.