- Filtering and mixing paints and varnishes - It is not easy to find a suitable painting filter ; the paper cones for coffee machine is too fine. I suggest recovering a sun screen for windows car (those ringed, with suction cup)form a pouch above the empty pot. I am personally satisfied. Another possibility : use a woman stocking (if paint does not pass through, try to make a pocket and press (put on a plastic glove) like a distributor of cream for pastrycook.
Prepare before a plastic bottle cut out to pose the stocking and filter the paint. Clean roughly the pot and transfer it. If you have to mix paints together, take also a plastic bottle and stir swiftly with a tiny stick.

   //// Painting 2    PAINTING CLEAN

 - Pot screwed bonded paint. If you have poured the bottom rest of a pot into a glass jar with a lid screwed, chances are that the screwed lid will be glued by the paint. Hot water. Run warm water over the edge of the lid. Gloves. Wearing gardening gloves with gripper coating can help (rough-looking rubber surface). Or cut two pieces of non-skid mat, one to put under the glass jar, the other to put on the lid. Screwdriver. If nothing happens, put the pot upside down, insert a screwdriver between the lid and glass to crack a little the lid in several places. Turn it right and unscrew. So you dont spoil anything. There are of course, special clips, ribbons of steel to unscrew etc.

- Cleaning and conservation of brushes. to know more. Prevents the brushes from drying between several interruptions (may take several days) and allows you to take and keep the brush on the  work site, and finally, greatly facilitates the thorough cleaning of the brush, or even roll without getting dirty. With next to nothing, the benefit is immense.

- Idea: keep the yogourt or cream pots, or better, doses of detergent for washing machine (balls) to clean your brushes. Start with thinner (white spirit) or a substitute of trichlorethylene, then a mixture of thinner and liquid detergent or liquid soap.

- Idea: hair brushes. they keep a nice shape if you wrap them tightly in a cloth or a piece of paper, squeezing a little hair. Otherwise, you get a hedgehog!

- Tip: Do not dip the brush into the paint to run ! the top of the hair should not be moistened because it is the most difficult to clean. This remains theoretical, because the paint ends up. That is why it must be thoroughly cleaned by removing the hair to the top. A hard brush can be recovered with acetone .. and a pair of pliers to crush the hair up and facilitate the penetration of acetone. We generally are reluctant to, but better is to buy a new brush.

- Cleaning and brushes conservation to know more Allows to prevent the brushes from drying between two layers (can keep it up to several weeks (supervising from time to time); allows to even store and preserve the brush on the outside painting site; finally, ease the brush cleaning, or even roll, without dirtying oneself. Frequently used.

  you don't need a special can nor a grid to remove the paint from the roll. Dip the roll vertically into the can and push down the paint in excess inside the can using a stick that you rub against  the roll while making rotating it at each washing down (on for faces of the roll); You can also maintain the roll above the can, dip a bigger stick or a brush into and then coat the roll, making revolving it.

Sealing the can, peal paint formation.
Before closing the pot of painting, scrape the paint around the lid because it is generally there that dried paint is accumulated more, preventing a good closing (and thus sealing). see photo

Paint peal formation. To prevent the painting from drying too quickly and forms a skin, one usually pour a small quantity of white spirit on the surface, but it is not enough if the pot is half empty or more. See also above cleaning the lid.  I currently, test a mean to cover the paint along with grtting a better sealing of the lid. Know more Level of paint before closing the pot, trace a line with a large ink felt to indicate the level of painting which remains. The weight alone teach few..

if the level is lower than half the can, think of transferring painting into a smaller pot, because there will be far too much air (jam jar..). One can make that before reaching the half if one can get an adequate container.

Painting  3.

- Aspects and influence of paintings, some elementary rules .

Matt or gloss paint? The matt/flat paint is softer than the glossy one and masks small defects of the surface ; but it dirty more (micro cavities). Gloss paint (lacquer), is more lively and warm. It dirty less and clean better (smoother). For a door, preferably take gloss one or a satin (between the two). The satin paint is generally a good compromise, but it dirty a bit more than gloss. For an interior wall, matt or satin, of course depending on the surface and direction of light. Finally, try the satin paint for exterior walls (whole or half-height), they dirty much less and are more alived (now used for anti-graffiti walls). Large defects can be enhanced (to be verifyied). Exterior door in bright, as are the fences .. One can also paint a stringcourse of roof if the defects are not excessive.

Color ; it is the most delicate ; a color on a small surface (on the pot for example), appears clearer than on large surface. A dark color brings closer (restrict the distance) and a clear color enlarge. So, a white painted room seems larger. Modifying the aspect of a narrow and high corridor, it is necessary to paint or paper the ceiling (even falling down 20/ 30 cm on the wall) with a dark color, and the walls with a clear color. Walls exposed at the light can be painted in darker than those located in the shade. overlooking north, prefer a little "hot" color" on a wall. Attenuate the colour for a wall in the light (sun) and too close, unless you do wish a particular effect. Two different colors can be used, for example a color for three walls and another for the fourth (remember the problems of lighting and depths to be rectified). Do not be afraid of the colors, even with old pieces of furniture or of style : they will be emphasized and you will avoid dull. The colors "sharp" are reserved for the exposures and to the experts in decoration. Be aware of complementary colors, which are opposed : in particular the green with orange, blue with the red, which can cause eye trouble (tapestry striped).

Idea : Coloring a white paint. To color slightly the walls of a room, I have used a white acrylic paint and a coloring powder sold for special coatings (king ancient walls). While gradually adding the powder, on control very well the blend (I made one wall clearer than others). Sole  precaution : mix vrery carefully not to have much grain left . At the contrary, you can leave some of them to obtain a speckled effect. There are also liquid dyes tube, but that does give the same effect and being much powerfull, are more difficult to control.

- Reflection of paintings : all bodies return a little the received light, as the moon (one calls that albedo). Thus a coloured wall returns its color on another close surface ; if the colors are opposed, they die out mutually. Conversely, they light each other and are emphasized; I thus changed the painting of the framing of my door of entry, a blue which "extinguished" the color "wood yellow-red" of my front door. A closer color now emphasizes it and I have compliments on my door that nobody saw before !!

- Layers, layers guarantee a good finish and a better resistance, due to the mass of the product. It is a bit careless on this point for two reasons: the thankless job of painting - which includes the necessary sanding between coats - and the final cost. This is especially true for the varnish. The Chinese lacquer, require hours if not days. The number of thin layers is insane. The varnish on boats, including luxury runabout like the famous Italian Riva, spreads I believe in at least twelve layers, plus a new yearly. It shines! For a bench outside and a door exposed to the weather, I decided to put six or seven layers of (varnish. The result is currently very good although I have not been given a new layer. I am probably wrongl