Hey you that knows everything about painting. Student here and my employer is paying me to repaint. I’m very much a beginner (painted like 3 times in my life). They know it and they still let me do it (to give me some hours during the summer break).
I’m done with the primer and boy is it ugly… Do you know if everything looks ok? Do you see something painfully wrong? And if you have some tips and tricks, I’m happy to hear them!
Pictures I took of my “masterpiece” : https://imgur.com/a/GzwH6Wb
Btw, if this isn’t the right community to ask this, please let me know!
Looks fine. As others have said, check with your hands. The fact that you’ve prepared the walls at all means you’re doing a better job than average.
Primer nearly always looks blotchy. In simple terms, paint is colour granules suspended in goo, mixed with magic.
The actual wall paint has lots of colour granules, and some magic to make it lay flat in neat planes of colour. The primer is going to get covered up, so no point in adding all that colour - it only includes enough colour granules for you to “see where you’ve been”. Its main job is putting down a layer of special goo, which sticks to both the original surface and the paint.
The important bit is that some primer covers everything, so its layer of goo can form a sort of film that the paint will stick to nicely. If the primer is a bit thicker or thinner in places, it will be more or less opaque, looking blotchy, but it will still work fine.
After that, 3 thin coats is better than 1 thick coat.
Different colours have different opacities. A light yellow colour might need 6 coats to look “properly flat”. A dark blue may be finished with only 2 coats.
Whites, greys, blacks and dark colours have better coverage, on average, than pale colours.