Gradations and tints of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint, Emperor's Silk, Barcelona Orange, and Arles on an old pine cabinet.
A Warm Welcome
If you love Old Violet and Arles and for more inspiration see my posts, Porte à Saint-Émilion, Inspiration in Alsace, and Secret Door.
While we are on Green.....
This color wheel features 6 of the custom colors made when Annie Sloan Chalk PaintⒸ Antibes Green is mixed with varying amounts of English Yellow and varying amounts of Arles. Also represented are variations of each of these custom colors when mixed with different amounts of Pure White.
So how is this helpful? Many of my clients are more familiar with paints made by other manufacturers, Martha Stewart, Sherwin Williams, Farrow & Ball but especially Benjamin Moore. They will bring me a color swatch from Benjamin Moore and ask me to paint a piece of furniture that color.
Although I think Benjamin Moore is an excellent paint for walls, I don't like using latex on furniture( I will explore that in another post). My client doesn't usually care about the brand as much as the color, in this case Wales Green. In order to use Chalk PaintⒸ, I must be able to match the color my client has chosen. This is where the color cards of custom colors are very helpful, because it gives you a good place to start. Mixing Antibes Green and English Yellow and then adding some white will get you very close to "Wales Green". It does take some trial and error, and some fine tuning, but the more you do it the easier it gets. If it is very important to match the color exactly, I will pick up a sample of the Benjamin Moore paint just to be sure. In the end, mixing my own color to match, allows me to use my paint of choice. Usually for furniture it is Annie Sloan Chalk PaintⒸ.
A Slice of Lime
An old sideboard painted with Annie Sloan Chalk PaintⒸ in a custom mixed Lime Green.
Shades of an Armoire
Sometimes it is not so clear what color to choose when painting a special vintage piece of furniture. Colors, Tints, and Shades can look very different from one piece to the next. Painting a large Armoire, like the one above, involves a fair amount of time and energy, not to mention the cost of paint. Any tool you can use to eliminate, or even narrow down, your color choice before you start to paint can save you from painting something more than once.
The image above is a virtual representation of an Armoire painted in 6 different colors and shades (shades = color + black) of Annie Sloan Chalk PaintⒸ. I didn't actually paint the Armoire 6 different colors. Each armoire image was tinted with shades of one color. The color cards below each show the color I used. This is only meant to be a starting point, but sometimes having a comparison on an actual piece of furniture is helpful.
Here is the real Armoire and the colors I used when I painted it......
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