Sunday, February 21, 2010

I painted a scrabble board with oil paint and it needs to be dry in a few hours?

If I spray it with hair spray, will it okay to touch?I painted a scrabble board with oil paint and it needs to be dry in a few hours?
IF YOU ALREADY PAINTED IT - ITS TOO LATE!





Oils take as long as it takes! You will not successfully speed up the process of drying. Sorry.





Whenever you have a project that must be dry in a short time like this use Acrylics as has been suggested. Spraying it with anything will not only not make it dry faster but will in the end restrict its ability to dry completely or slow down its drying. A fan will not shorten the drying process to a few hours either.I painted a scrabble board with oil paint and it needs to be dry in a few hours?
Hair spray wont do anything, depending on how thick you put the paint on/which brand of paint you use oil paint can take 3 days to 6 months to dry. There is a medium called liquin you can mix the paint with which will make it dry in about 24 hours. Hairdryer/fan doesnt do much either and will make the top of the paint dry quicker than the bottom which might make it crack.
nope. drier (cobalt drier or Japan) has to be mixed into the paint. Hairspray will either leave a permanently gummy topcoat or at best give you a fragile micron-thick shell that will break open and glop the paint film. Your only hope is heat to catalize the oxidation of the oil....which will also ultimately destroy the painting. If its a short term, ';get it to class and forget it'; thing heat is the only help...long, low heat and it will harden on cooling, but its still going to be a crapshoot good luck
It's not going to be! Sorry. Actually, oil paint takes weeks to dry, months if it was applied thickly. And it takes 500 years to cure completely! That's why so many of the oil paintings done in the Renaissance are flaking off and falling apart - They've finally cured!


Don't spray it with anything, just leave it alone and it will dry in a few weeks.
You should have used acrylics, they would be dry before you had time to go on line and ask this question.


Oils will take a few days, easily.
Nope. Gotta wait. Best bet would be a hairdryer on LOW. If the air comes out too fast from the blower it may move the paint around on your canvas.
Use a fan of some sort....Should have used acrylic or latex paint.
let it dry

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