Air Brush A Ceiling

Airbrushing creates elegant and detailed graffiti art.

Whether you're stenciling or painting freely, using an airbrush to paint your ceiling is a simple and effective way to add designs and motifs to your ceiling. Airbrushing is used on motorcycles, cars, T-shirts, murals and even skin, and although airbrushing requires a much looser brushing technique because of the brush's distance from the painting surface, most of the preparation and painting process is identical to more common house painting.

Instructions

Preparation and Painting

1. Remove all the furniture from your room, or cover it with plastic sheets or another type of covering.

2. Cover the floor with a protective covering.

3. Remove any lights, mirrors or other fixtures from the walls. This allows you to access the portion of the ceiling that meets the walls without straining.

4. Place the stepladder underneath the area you wish to paint.

5. Put on your respirator.

6. Climb the stepladder, making sure the hose of the airbrush is secure and won't flail. A flailing hose could mean a flailing airbrush.

7. Hold the airbrush about 8 inches from the ceiling.

8. Spray using gentle, back-and-forth strokes over the area being painted.

Stencil Work

9. Tape newspaper around the area you wish to paint.

10. Spray adhesive to the back of your stencil or pattern and let it set for 30 seconds.

11. Press the stencil against the ceiling for about a minute before letting go.

12. Paint over the stencil as you would an open area of ceiling.

13. Remove the newspaper and the stencil from the ceiling.

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