Refining The Brick Wall Colour Pallet

Step 1: From learning's from my last experiment, I realised that the Kappa-line foam board absorbs some of the paint/moisture, this made the paint dry a lot darker than how it appeared wet. From learning this, I thought of how I could seal the foam to stop this from happening again. I came across Rosco's Foam Coat, which is made for the purpose of sealing foam to be able to paint on. I applied this across my next test sample.

Step 2: Creating a Mortar, Instead of using the Seawhite acrylic for the base coat, I used Rosco's paint instead using Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, and Black. Watering the paint down a lot more than before due to how pigmented Rosco's paints are.

Step 3: Mixing together a variety of colours which will be spread at random across the bricks. This makes the tone of the bricks vary which you see a lot in reality. Once dry add some lighter tones through dry brushing.

Step 4: Using a darker, dirtier tone which is very watered down wash over the bricks. This creates depth into the bricks bringing out the crevices. It also makes the bricks look much older and worn down. My next step with this test piece is to bring back some lightness back into it, to bring back some of the colour in to make it more realistic.