The colors I used on these garage doors is Tatami Tan (Sherwin Williams) for the base coat color, then I used SW Java for the first coat of brown and for the second coat I used SW Turkish Coffee.
In the next photo you can see how I have completed creating the wood grain look on the center panels of the top 3 rows.
As you can see in the photo the wood grain in the center of the panels has a horizontal direction to it. The grain in the space between the panels will get a vertical grain direction to it. I tape off the areas I do not want to get paint on so I have taped off the space between the center panels. Once the wood grain has been created in the center panels I re-position the tape so I can paint in the vertical grain.
In the next photo the yellow arrow indicates where the tape is when I first tape off the panels. The white arrow shows how I have re-positioned it so I can paint in the vertical grain.
In the next photo the white square shows how the vertical wood grain looks after I created it and removed the tape. The green arrows in this photo show the position of the tape when I first tape off the center panels. At this point however I want to paint in that horizontal area between the rows of panels.
So I re-position the tape to expose the entire horizontal area to get painted. In the next photo the green arrows indicate how I have re-positioned the tape along the horizontal lines. You can see how I have left about a sixteenth of an inch of the painted center panels exposed. That ensures I get total coverage over the base coat.
The last photo here shows the garage door almost painted to look like wood. I just have to finish painting the center panels of the bottom two rows.
