FolkArt Home Decor Water Based Chalk Furniture & Craft Paint in Assorted Colors, 8 ounce, Imperial

This is great chalk paint! It dries fast and doesn't need a top coat. I did use one but it seemed unnecessary, this paint adheres perfectly to wood, laminate surface and metal. I've been repainting tables and cabinets with several colors and been very happy with the coverage and mostly happy with the colors. This wasn't obvious in the listing but "willow mist" is a perfect light pink. I repainted bathroom cabinets with it and used it to stencil over the Sage green paint on shelving (in photo). The Sage is a nice subtle old fashioned, antique pale green and the Turkish Tile is a lovely darker blue that leans teal. The weirder color is the Oatmeal, it's basically a pale green. It's okay as an accent color but it wasn't what I expected as a main color. I did try the Country Chic brand and their colors were dull and ugly in person and twice as expensive as Folk Art, so I believe this was a great choice.

This is the best chalk paint I've used so far hands down. Ive used it to distress furniture, on glass jars for candles, and on tin cans. It stays on and the color is beautiful.

Folk Art chalk paint is my go to paint. I use chalk paint to give my ocean shells a true color. Paint goes on smoothly and drys fast.

Covers well, nice soft color, good paint for the price.

Love folk art

Loved using the chalk paint on my kitchen table, will buy again. Like others noticed the white needs more than one coat. The dark blue only needed one coat besides the first coat of 50/50. The white I did four coats. By the way, I mixed the chalk paint with water 50/50 and used that as a first coat, then did 75 % paint and water, and then the third coat was 100% chalk paint and the last coat again 100% chalk paint. There has to be a base for it to stick to varnished furniture, that's right I did not need to sand the table first. I also used water in the mix because that was how I was taught by my mother who restores/paints furniture as a hobby, I also sanded the table to perfect softness and then added one last layer of white just to make sure there were no drips. The paint is thick and it is not 100 % opaque but the coverage is great, I used one 8 oz can for an entire table with several thin layers. That's right, thin, layers and I waited two hours between coats just to make sure it was dry. It does chip if you try a thick coat or multiple almost dry coats and then more wet coats on top, always try it out on scrap wood to test how thick to apply the paint. I love how my table came out, with a cute rustic design in the nautical blue. The owners of this company need to update the pictures with a paint chip not distressed wood in off lighting. The colors are off on the photos just be aware of that. Some are darker, some brighter. I thought I was getting white, but what I got went from white to turned slightly yellow cream white color. The nautical blue was the same, I thought I was getting a blue with a slight hint of grey like on the Maine boats and themed marine house decor items. Not grey with slight blue that looks blue in certain lighting and grey during the day and night. Seriously It looks like I have an antique cream table with grey-blue design on it... It would have looked better if the color stayed white. I did not have cracking, chipping or issues with clean up. Will be buying from this brand again. The colors look great even if that was not my original plan, and the feeling of the paint is good, people give compliments about my table and I am not disappointed just frustrated with the company for not having better photos. The best part of the paint is that it does not smell horrible! I will be using chalk paint for interior walls from now on.

I love this color! I recently painted my living room wall navy and needed a great color for side tables to stand out. I purchased a nice pair of side tables from Craigslist for $30 and was excited to DIY something great. This colors was perfect to accent my navy walls and have the old, simple side tables pop. I've never used chalk paint before, and I has no intention of distressing this, I was just excited not to have to sand/prime furniture before painting. There are a lot of tutorials and tips available on chalk painting furniture, and I was able to make my old side table new again! First thing I've learnt about chalk paint is that it's incredibly easy to use, no primer and sanding saves you a lot of time and energy. The paint is not waxy/sandy as you might imagine "chalky" being, instead it's smooth and very easy to roll on or paint with. Chalk paints are also very forgiving, I tried to stick to keeping my brush strokes straight and in one direction, but it does get hard in tight spots, and yet, after drying and adding finishing wax, it's smooth and even. This is also a great value for me, I was able to paint both side tables (3' tall, 25" wide and 16" in depth) with the entire bottle. I wasn't able to paint the complete inside with this color, but I always intended to make the inside white, so it wasn't very disappointing to me. After my experience using chalk paints for the first time, I'm completely hooked on chalk paints, I doubt I'd go back to normal paints for my furniture DIYs. This chalk paint is a great value at under $10, and I definitely recommend it if this is your first time chalk painting. You're in good hands with this chalk paint, and this particular color looks better on my furniture than I could have ever hoped for. I'll be buying other colors soon.

This is everything I hoped the color would be. It looked quite pink in my monitor settings, but I took a chance anyway. It is a nice dusty purple with hints of greige. Neutral enough to go well with most other purples. This is a super-matte chalk paint with good coverage that is easy to work with and distresses well. I couldn't beat the price either.