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Cydonia
Joined: 07 Feb 2010
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Location: Newcastle
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 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:44 pm Post subject: Watching Paint dry |
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AAAAARG watching paint dry when you really want to get it framed...
I have this tiny little white tree that will not dry, will it hurt the painting if I attack it with a warm hairdryer?????
The culprit: 
I think I will also be chopping into the front right leg of the table it’s been annoying me this whole time, if anyone can pic the problem please let me know, its driving me CRAZY!! |
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art8dave
Joined: 01 May 2006
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Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject: Re - Watching Paint dry |
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| Fan heaters are good for speeding up the drying process.... not too close to the painting...just a constant stream of warm air. |
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Devilbiss
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Posts: 3214
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: Watching Paint dry |
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| Cydonia wrote: | AAAAARG watching paint dry when you really want to get it framed...
I have this tiny little white tree that will not dry, will it hurt the painting if I attack it with a warm hairdryer?????
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It all depends on how you attack it.
If you repeatedly hit it with a hairdryer you might do some damage.
Put a fan heater about six feet away from it on low heat for about two days and you might dry it a bit.
What you don't want to do is to put heat on it and dry the surface of the white and get a dry skin forming on the top.
Try Winsor and Newton Griffin fast drying white in winter...it'll help the slow drying white blues.
Go out and buy some of the fast drying white, scrape the old white off your painting and repaint it with the fast dry. Then a few days later you can varnish it.  |
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velvet
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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Location: Hunter Valley
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:54 pm Post subject: Re - Watching Paint dry |
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| The right front leg of the table - I can't be certain from this small pic, but perhaps it could be a tad shorter. |
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