I have an oil painting I did that I hate and want to fix, but find the acrylic paints more colorful and easy to use. Can I paint over or add to the oil painting using acrylic paint?
Will anything bad happen to it if I do? Will it crack over time?
Any suggestions would be appriciated! Thanks
2007-02-02 08:09:31 · 8 answers · asked by Tesra 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
hello
you can paint oil over acrylic with no problem, but i dont know the other way around.You can totally paint over it,if you want to use a different medium, as long you cover with some 4 or 5 layers of white gesso first, sanding it after each layer
what you hate about the painting? if you wish, you can send me a picture of it, and maybe i can convince you not to change it.
2007-02-03 10:13:50 · answer #1 · answered by Marcelo Halmen 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's just a matter of personal choice. You can do anything in acrylics that you can do with watercolors, and some of the things you can do with oil painting. The one real advantage to oil painting is that you can make thinner and thinner shades of a color to add a semi-transparent effect to a painted object. In acrylics this cannot be done, as a thinner acrylic will not adhere to a thicker acrylic underneath it. Cleaning up with most oil paints requires very toxic chemicals. However there are now soy based oil paints that can be cleaned up with soap and water. Have fun painting!
2016-03-29 01:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should never paint acrylic over oil paint. Oil paint can take up to a year to fully dry where-as Acrylic paint dries in a matter of hours. Oil does not make a stable base for acrylic paint.
However you can paint oils over acrylic quite sucessfully.
2007-02-02 12:44:38 · answer #3 · answered by Dick G 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I kno you can do the reverse. it's a technic used to speed up the oil painting process, but all oil still looks better. Why not just go over it with oil it would look better and be easier to do. Just spray the painting with some retuoch varnish before you work on any older paintings it loosens up the old paint so you can better paint over the serface with out the paint cracking off, or looking bad when done. ;}
2007-02-02 09:01:42 · answer #4 · answered by cavalofun 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the oil will eventually crack and then the acrylic will fall off.
2007-02-02 08:17:10 · answer #5 · answered by David M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no waterbased paint won't stick to oil
2007-02-04 03:26:05 · answer #6 · answered by STEVEN B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I totaly agree with Dick DON'T DO IT
2007-02-03 00:59:00 · answer #7 · answered by cheers 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOU CAN BUT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE S@#~
2007-02-02 08:13:18 · answer #8 · answered by sexy-latina 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋