You can’t tell if a paint will cover in two coats on a wall just because it covers the black strip in two coats on a draw down card. This would only be true if painters applied paint to walls with draw down bars instead of brushes and rollers. Some paint manufacturers claim that a draw down with two coats of paint provides an accurate assessment of a paint’s hide. What draw downs can not do is measure coverage of a paint colour. Since the quart sized can of paint that most manufacturers sell for samples are generally an eggshell finish and most often a lower grade interior paint, getting a draw down of the actual paint being used will help you determine if the sheen level on the paint is what you are looking for. In other words not all eggshells are the same. Paints don’t all have the same sheen levels, even within the same brand and same sheen type.
The other use of a draw downs is to check sheen levels. I request a draw down for every colour match we do. If you are getting colour matches done from one brand of paint to another, this is essential to make sure your match is accurate. They are big enough that you can lay a paint chip on the draw down and have it surrounded by the sample colour. Unless the wall behind it is white, there are two coats of the colour and the lighting is good, you will have a hard time determining if the colour is what you selected.Ī draw down will allow you to see if the colour is accurate. I also don’t like the idea of the painter putting a sample on the wall. There is no way that is enough paint to accurately judge if a colour is right. It drives me batty that a finger print of colour on the top of a paint lid is how most painters check the colour of paint in a can. Architects, developers and many designers will often request draw downs for each colour being used for a project.īut drawdowns can also be very useful for homeowner. Because there is no rolling or brushing of the paint, the draw down is very smooth and consistent and has no brush strokes or roller marks. A small amount of paint is placed on the card and the paint is spread over the card using a metal draw down bar. They are made on white and black plastic cards. Simply put, a draw down is a large sample of paint from the actual can of paint being used for the job.ĭraw downs are supplied by paint stores to provide accurate colour and sheen level of paints. Simply go to and look for the chart banner, fill out the information required and we will send you this dazzling color tool.When I do colour consultations, I always specify that the painter should provide draw downs before painting. The higher resolution printing process we’re using to create this chart will make the blue, green and orange tones much more vibrant, offering the truest printed color interpretation available. Starting this February we are offering this rolled poster to all our customers for $9.95 (plus shipping and handling). Just looking at these imperfect representations on your computer monitor still gives an incredible reference as to how the very subtle differences in color, tints or glazes makes all the difference as to how these various pigments react and move in color space. Embedded into this article are some of these drawdowns. You can see Sarah’s article on our current Web site at here. It didn’t take long for the idea to take hold that these color samples even in printed form would be incredibly valuable for all our customers … so was born the new Drawdown Color Chart Poster. Word got out to the rest of the artists in the company that we had all these drawdowns and soon, requests began to pour into the lab for these color samples. When we counted the colors and the number of drawdowns, (close to 1,000 for one complete set) it was clearly not something we could do by hand, but we would certainly consider putting all the data into a form that could be used by all the team members.
This quickly resolved into requests to have all our colors analyzed in multiple tint and glaze let downs.
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All the members, being incredible color fanatics, wanted a full set of the dried color samples for their own work. When Sarah Sands wrote “The Subtleties of Color” in our last issue of Just Paint (#21) we assembled the entire Tech Support Services team to review the enormous number of exquisite drawdowns that had been created to then generate all the spectral data.
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