How to paint realistic wood grain finish with acrylic paint

How to paint a wood grain finish with Derivan acrylic paint, using a woodgrain rocker, wood grain tool, combs, flogger, and other woodgraining tools. Using a scumble glaze over a painted background.

Basic woodgrain can be as simple as dragging a brush through a wet glaze all the way to employing detailed masking techniques to copy intricate inlay patterns (also called intarsia) and using advanced wood-graining tools.
One of the simplest yet most effective painted finishes which achieves a wood grain finish with Derivan acrylic paint and a woodgrain rocker and other woodgraining tools

The process is similar to dragging where an even coat of colour is applied and is left to dry then a glaze coat applied and while still wet is worked with various tools to expose the first coat either partially or completely in areas. Tools required can be a stiff brush, woodgraining rocker and woodgraining combs. Studying the grain and patterns of the wood being copied is required to achieve a realistic finish. Along with the correct technique the combination of colours is very important to achieve a realistic representation of particular wood types as well. The advanced woodgrainer will find they will require a large pallet of colours, and will find these in either the Derivan students range or for professional applications the Derivan Acrylic colours or Matisse professional acrylic flow range.

https://www.derivan.com.au/wood-grain...

Things you will need:
•    Matisse Background Pale Beige or Derivan Students pale beige
•    Matisse flow Raw Umber or Derivan Students burnt umber
•    Matisse MM16 Faux Finish medium or Derivan Spreader medium
•    Derivan short handl 50 mm wide flat (soft varnish) brush
•    75mm - 100mm brush house painting brush, with thick, stiff bristles or a flogger, or a stiff nail brush, or steel wool (no soap!) or a wood graining comb or a wood graining rocker.
You can find everything you need here: https://www.derivan.com.au/woodgraining


🎨 🖌️ ✏️ 🖼️ 👩‍🎨 🖊️ 🖍️ ✍️
🌐Derivan Website
https://www.derivan.com.au/

🌐Matisse Website
https://www.matisse.com.au/


👍Derivan Facebook
  / derivan.official  

👍Matisse Facebook
  / derivanmatisse  


❤️Derivan Instagram
  / derivan.official  

❤️Matisse Instagram
  / derivanmatisse  


📌Derivan Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com.au/derivan_...

📌Matisse Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com.au/Matisse_...

👁️‍🗨️Derivan Matisse TikTok
  / derivanmatisse  




STEPS : WOODGRAINING
STEP 1:
Apply a base coat of •    Matisse Background Pale Beige or Derivan Students pale beige in a flat even finish using a brush or roller and leave to dry.

STEP 2:
Mix •    Matisse MM16 Faux Finish medium or Derivan Spreader medium and your chosen •    Matisse flow Raw Umber or Derivan Students burnt umber to desired strength of colour. Generally 1:1

STEP 3:
Apply the Glaze mixed in the previous step with a brush and while still wet, drag the wood graining rocker, combs, scotch brite, flogger or nail brush through the glaze. Make sure you have a piece of cloth handy to wipe the glaze off the brush as you go. The tool must remain dry and free of paint. The pattern is made by the brush lifting the glaze off the surface as it goes.

Pine and Mahogany on Oak
in the video these are the colours that are used to woodgrain the various different wood types - you can use these as a start for your own wood grains:
Pine wood:
Base coat:
Derivan Students yellow oxide
Derivan Students white
Glaze:
Derivan Spreader Medium
Derivan Students Burnt Umber
Derivan Students Raw Umber

Mahogany:
Base coat:
Derivan Students Raw Sienna
Derivan Students white
Glaze:
Derivan Spreader Medium
Derivan Students Burnt Umber
Derivan Students Red Oxide

Oak:
Base coat:
Derivan Students Yellow oxide
Derivan Students Raw Sienna
Glaze:
Derivan Spreader Medium
Derivan Students Burnt Umber
Derivan Students Raw Umber
Derivan Students Red Oxide