Duck Egg Blue living room set

Today, I worked on several projects - trying to play catch from being at the beach - back to reality!  One of the projects I worked on was one for my booth at Queen of Hearts in Buford, Georgia.  I obtained a 2 end table and 1 coffee table set.  I decided that I wanted to use Duck Egg Blue as the base for these pieces, as that is the most popular color I have come to find out - and I love it just as equally :)

First, a 2 coats of Duck Egg Blue were applied - this is what I call my base coat - more like making the piece a blank slate for me to start creating the look.  The pieces looked like this once the base coats were applied....

 

I decided I wanted to do a dry brushing of Annie Sloan's Old White to the piece.  When you do the dry brushing technique you have little paint on your brush to create a transparent finish over the base color.  I usually have a spare piece of wood near by so once I lightly dip my brush in the paint I was blot the brush a few times to make sure I can achieve the right look.  In the pictures below shows the brush looks like before I start applying the dry brush technique and then me applying the dry brush paint.

 

The finished technique is shown below.  With this techique you have to be careful with your strokes so it is very visible.  I typically follow the natural flow of the way the piece is going.  The picture below shows the top of the end table dry brushed.

 

 

After the Old White dried I distressed the piece with 120 grit sand paper - this is really up to your discretion on how much distressing to do.  I usually just start and see where it goes!  :)

Once the piece was distressed I clear waxed the piece with Annie Sloan clear wax.

 

Then, I sprayed the hardware and attached it back on and the piece was DONE!  :)  The final piece is below.