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Haven’t posted here in forever because I rarely use acrylics anymore, though they are a super fun medium, great for experimenting.
I have a bunch of very textural surfaces painted in acrylics. They are bumpy because of the layer of bumpy fiberglass on the wall. Additionally some of the strokes I made thick when applying the acrylic paint, so it looks rough.
The problem is I need the wall to now be as smooth as possible because I need to rub some text onto the walls. With all the bumps the text can not rub off correctly. How do I get these walls smooth?
1. They are on a vertical wall, so I can not lay them flat to then pour on medium to level the paint. Since vertical, medium would just roll down to the floor.
2. I tried sanding them thinner, but it just sands the paint back to the white of the wall and looks terrible.
3. I tried 2 layers of gloss medium and on another one 2 layers of extra heavy gel semi gloss. It helped, but not much.
How do I fix this? Here is a pic of the textures:
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Plaster is solid white and would cover the paintings. I don’t want to cover up the paintings I have made. I just want to make them smooth.OK I guess I wasn’t clear on exactly what you wanted to do. Using clear medium you can eventually get there, but it will take a lot of coats with sanding between each coat. My guess is 5 or more coats.
Depending on the size of the area it could take many hours of work. If I had to do this I would try to find a different way to apply the text that would work on the rough texture. Perhaps a stencil, either hand made, or have one laser cut.
Wayne
Comments and critiques are welcomeI ended up using 5 coats gel medium, no sanding in between. Ended up a bit foggy but still useable. I have access to laser cutter, but stencil on text would not work – all the letter with holes in them would be wrong, like a b d…. and the text is too small.
The real lessons I have learned for next time are to make it smooth to begin with, and use larger text only.
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