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Does anyone use Acryics for woodgraining? I've always used Rubber based printing ink with a top coat of clear lac. or urethane. But I would like to use something quicker. For those Pebble Beach hurry up madness,last minute jobs, gotta have it now,type of stuff.
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Hi Alan. I use a lot of acrylics. Yes, it is rather easy to do wood graining with acrylics. The trick is to keep your paint flowing. I use a couple of extenders. One is: Acrylic slow-dri Medium from Liquitex. It doubles the working time of acrylics. The other is : Airbrush Transparent Extender by Golden. They are availabe thru most quality art supply stores.
If I can be of furthur help, please contact me.
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I used liquitex acrylics with the extender also to do some pretty cool woodgraining then cleared over it in the usual manner. it looked great. Mike
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Acryilcs here as well. I use waterbased glazes for transparency and Floetrol to slow it down. I clear with waterbased polyurethanes for interior use, and Pelucid for exterior use.
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Thanks for the good imput and kind words , I used the extender-retarder it worked great . slowing the drying time is the key. Maintain
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As soon as I can figure out how to do that , you got it . I'm just a babe in puterland
-------------------- Alan Johnson Alan Johnson Grafix Blairstown, NJ 07825 [URL=http://www.alanjohnsongrafix.com] Posts: 261 | From: Blairstown, NJ | Registered: Dec 2001
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