- a tile with a smooth (non-structural) surface and a large relief pattern,
- a large art brush or a very small paint brush, but I prefer to use a small piece of foam, fixed on a stick with a wire,
- acrylic water-based paint (in no case not a different type of paint, otherwise poisoning by poisonous fumes is inevitable!).
As for the paint, or rather its color: do not buy ready-made color paint. As a rule, such materials have a too bright saturated color, so the ceilings will not be relaxing, but rather “aggressive”. Personally, I prefer to take white paint and tints of different colors for self-creating gamma.
The painting process itself can be carried out even in a living room (remember that the paint should only be water-based!). We begin painting the relief with a central pattern, so as not to get dirty later. You can conditionally divide the tile into four parts and draw each part, starting from the center. By the way, it is absolutely not necessary to suffer from coloring of elevations of a relief, it is quite enough to paint over the upper plane. At the same time, do not forget about the continuation of the pattern at the cut edge, so that white stripes do not form when the tiles meet.
It is natural that it can’t do without blots, so you should prepare a small piece of foam with sharply cut corners and a little water to wet it. For those who don’t know, acrylic paints are easily washed off with ordinary water before drying, but only until they dry, then it is almost impossible to remove them. Therefore, the wrong strokes should be wiped immediately.
After painting, lay the finished tile or put it in a place with a gentle wind or draft, ideally under the “sun”. Remember that foam tile is very light and fragile, so you need to handle it extremely gently! The finished tile dries in the sun in three to four hours, and in the shade for about a day.
Well, now we take handmade tiles and glue them on prepared ceilings with special glue or on liquid nails. Here in the photo it is still “floor”, since I started painting it before I finished processing the surface of the ceiling.
But now, absolutely no one wants to spit in such a ceiling!
