@Mark Boyce posted:Dan, thank you very much!
My preferred method is to first paint the whole brick wall with the brick color with a brush using acrylic craft paint. Next, I dilute a little of the mortar color with water and brush it on enough so it goes in all the areas between bricks. Last, I wipe it off the brick surface leaving the mortar color between the bricks. I have to do that pretty fast or traces of the mortar color won't come off the brick surface.
In the past, I have tried doing the opposite by painting the whole wall the mortar color, then dry brushing the brick surface with the brick color, but I didn't like the results. I have also tried using spackling for the mortar color and wiping most of it off. However, no matter if I dilute the spackle or not, I always ended up with too much spackle covering brick surfaces around raised window and door frames to suit me.
Hey Mark, Jim Barrett told me once about painting brick. He said the most interesting thing, use water colors. That is the grout. I still haven't worked on the building I bought, but that is how I intend to do it when I work on it.
