Pixel Painting

Continued to do some more painting from where we started last fall with the family room carpet. With our high cathedral ceilings in the living room- how can we do this?

We could get a long handled roller and paint as high as we needed. The problem was the edge. Someone would still have to go up to the top to and paint the edge of the wall where it met the ceiling. Mucho trouble.

When we were painting at the Heritage Green Church renovations, we had to paint the bottom half of the Cry Room (Mother's Room for the rest of us.) Tim, our fearless leader said to use the roller and just taper off with new paint onto the old part. Mind you, this was with the same colour paint.

So, I got to thinking, why can't we do that at home. The new grey is close to but not exactly the same shade as the old gray. We can just run the roller up into the old part, taper the colour off gradually. Then the idea came to me- why I have a roller that is only 4 inches wide- if we use that the strips will be narrower and therefore blend better.

Somehow though, the picture in my head of how this would work reminded me of the old computer graphics trying to smooth a rounded edge. If you looked close enough, or blew it up enough, it wasn't really a curved line, it was a series of steps that looked like a curved line.

Of course, being an extremist, I went to the next step and thought- let's go smaller than a roller. Voila- that sponge that we used a long time ago to do a wall. Using a sponge will allow our "pixels" to be that much smaller.

But also in the meantime, we realized that the bottom part of the wall was the part that got the most scratches, nicks, bumps and scrapes, not to mention the finger prints and smudges. So why not use a darker colour on the bottom.

Then looking at the pictures on that wall, the hills in the picture undulate- rising and falling. This meant our transition should not be all in a straight line.

Thanks to Greg (and his artistry) we were able to achieve a great looking wall. The top is the old colour, the bottom is the darker new grey that will hide a multitude of sins, and we didn't have to climb up to do the top edge.

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