Then using a sponge or roller apply terracotta or brick red paint over the wall.
How to paint concrete walls to look like brick.
Roll the primer combined paint and primer onto the wall in a thin even coat.
Apply tape across your concrete in a brick like fashion.
Claudia darr mixed a batch of brick red paint and rolled it right onto a concrete walk.
Make sure you press the sponge firmly against the wall rocking the sponge back and forth to ensure the paint is evenly transferred.
Apply paint on the end of the sponge and press the sponge on the wall in the spaces left bare by the stamp.
To make the brick press the painted sponge firmly onto the wall.
Fill the gaps left unpainted by the stamp by cutting a sponge to fit the spaces on the walls.
Basically the painting poured concrete basement walls to look like brick must be invested in the initial phase of development.
You can control the gray scale as you go there is no correct color and the more random you can make it the better it will look.
The first thing i did was clean the blocks and prime and apply a base coat of paint.
Remember to take into account the 3 8 inch gap around each brick when measuring the spaces.
Alternatively you can use sponges to create the fake brick shapes.
Allow the paint to dry.
So the job is to paint the concrete block to look like the existing brick.
If on an exterior there are many good paints and primers in 1 that work well with brick walls concrete walls behr and benjamin moore both have excellent products for this.
Using two colors or more can give a more dimensional realistic effect.
Next using the same brush barley dip the brush into the black paint and dab feather onto the white bricks.
Luckily each concrete block was exactly 3 rows high of brick.
Some paint and a mini roller and a steady hand are all you need to turn boring concrete sidewalks into inviting brick pathways.
This is not what you want it to look like.
If on a brick wall you can also spray it if in a controlled environment.