Faux Finish Table legs to look like Bamboo

With Faux finishing, There are a few basic steps to remember that will be repeated over and over again but with different colors and techniques: First there is the

1. prep work: sanding, priming, filling holes or repairing damaged areas with wood filler or sometimes drywall mud(spackle) or Chalk

2. Painting a base coat

3. Applying Faux Technique

4. Clear Coats of Varnish: Often but not always apply 1 or 2 clear coats of varnish for protection
    
     A few pictures are worth a thousand words: Someone painted this card table green and the client wanted it to look like bamboo, so 1st I prepped it for painting by sanding and cleaning anything oily or waxy off the surface to make sure that paint will stick properly. Sometimes I will wipe the surface with paint thinner or naptha to be certain any waxy residue is removed, but sanding is normally enough. Then, wipe all the dust from sanding off.

With this table, I just used a Rustoleum golden yellow spray 2. paint as a basecoat.
 

 
 
3rd Apply a Faux finishing technique. I used a Sherwin-Williams Wood Classics brown stain/glaze and applied it with 1 brush and dragged a 2nd brush threw the finish to create a streaky look.
 

While there wasn't enough highlights in the joints of the bamboo, I decided to add some black glaze to the joints and give the legs a more distinct look. Again I used 1 brush to apply the glaze and a 2nd brush to drag threw the glaze to give it a streaky look.  I finished the table by adding 1 clear coat of a oil varnish to add protection.

The finished table. The client was very happy!