I have used acrylic paint just a couple of times now and have been wondering about overcoating it with either a hard wax oil product (like Osmo Polyx-Oil) or a polyurethane varnish. Has anyone ever tried this? If so how and what did you apply? How did it work out? I guess I can try it on scrap wood easy enough, but curious about the experience of others.
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Poly or HWO Over Acrylic Paint?
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I always use Chroma Craft Clear Acrylic Spray Lacquer over acrylic paint.Hard wax oils work by penetrating in to the wood which they cannot do if the wood is sealed with paint.
I have used water based poly. Solvent based poly will add an amber layer on the paint, and could even lift the latex craft paint.
I have tried Osmo on some black acrylic paint, seems to have worked fine. Also there are a lot of videos of using hardwax oils on "river tables" (epoxy/wood hybrids) and people have not noticed any issues on the epoxy.
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I too have used spray lacquer over acrylic paint many times and it always worked well.
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Lacquer will work well. I use that on ornaments
I also use Waterlox. Often the first coat dulls the colors just a bit.
Makes you want to give up - stay the course
The third coat makes the colors pop.
I also use Waterlox. Often the first coat dulls the colors just a bit.
Makes you want to give up - stay the course
The third coat makes the colors pop.
Here's my scrap test piece. The acrylic paint was allowed to dry overnight. Gel poly on the left and Osmo polyx-oil on the right, with nothing in the middle.
Single coats on unprepared maple. The paint is a titch darker and maybe a titch yellow under both coatings, but it would be hard to tell if all the paint was coated. There was the faintest blue "stain" on the buff cloth, but the cured paint was not materially affected by the solvents.
Not sure if I'll go this route, but it's nice to know your options.
Single coats on unprepared maple. The paint is a titch darker and maybe a titch yellow under both coatings, but it would be hard to tell if all the paint was coated. There was the faintest blue "stain" on the buff cloth, but the cured paint was not materially affected by the solvents.
Not sure if I'll go this route, but it's nice to know your options.