Easy Faux Granite With No Sponge Painting

I found a very easy tutorial for faux granite painting with NO sponging! This is just a sample I worked up in less than 30 minutes. I just wanted to see how easy and well it turned out. Love it and so easy that I may try this on a tabletop in the next few days. The secret ingredient is Zinsser wallpaper remover and a spray bottle.
Sample 1: First base paint with 2 coats of your lightest color - I used off white. When base coats are dry mix a black glaze -( I used black craft paint with water 30% paint 70% water)and roll all over, while glaze is wet spritz with the Zinsser randomly all over get 30-40% coverage. when dry take a wet Warm (hot water) cotton rag and wipe this will remove the zinsser showing color below. Then lightly buff with a scotch pad. Repeat with the black glaze and zinsser 3-4 more times. When finished seal with a gloss shellac or polyurethane 3-4 coats. I'm going to try either the EnviroTex lite pour on high gloss Finish or Rustoleum Diamond Polyurethane (or both on sample boards and see which I like best )---( NOTE: I did not shellac my sample board) and on last pass with the glaze I sprinkled w/ fine black glitter before using Zinsser. Think I will leave out the glitter when working on tabletop and use a pearlescent paint glaze instead wiil post pics using it instead- Sample 2-- This time I left out glitter and mixed pearlescent glaze in with both the off white and black. * Decided to put some gloss poly (1 thin coat) on part of sample it really brings out details and looks much more like granite.
- Be sure and go to this link watch the video on how to do it. http://creativepaintingtechniques.org/how-to-paint-faux-granite/
I just used 2 colors . But could use as many colors as you wanted. Going from light to dark or reverse depending on end result you want-- Note: I would look a a picture of the type granite you want to end up with to figure out color order. Most of my time was spent waiting on paint to dry :)