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How to Apply a Leather Faux Painting Technique

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Faux leather techniques create striking textures and handmade detail that cannot be matched by similar wallpaper patterns.
Step 3: Mix the first glaze.
The first glaze is made up of one part of the semi-gloss latex color you have chosen mixed with four parts of a latex glaze. The glaze is a clear carrier that you use to make the color more transparent and to allow you enough time to lay down the leather pattern. This mixing ratio is four parts of latex glaze to one part of latex paint. Stir the glaze thoroughly to blend the glaze and paint together.
Stir the glaze thoroughly.

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