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Jumping the gun
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I have recently paid the price for jumping the gun with one of my Acrylic paintings, it was a reasonable size which I completed and after a few days decided I was satisfied with it ( or was I ? ) if you know what I mean, there was that little niggle at the back of my brain, but I decided I was being picky and fussy so eventually decided to varnish it. Anyway short story if you can't guess, eventually I was right I was not happy with it and decided to scrap it. So I removed the varnish, put a new base coat of colour on and realised quite stupidly that with the original painting, part of it had been done with a knife and had left ridges, the painting was on canvase board so could not be rubbed right down.
So effectively short of inventing a scene to incorporate the ridges, that is one canvase board wasted, unless anyone has any suggestions.
But the moral is beware jumping the gun!
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As a former decorator I will tell you what may work ... Get some liquid nitromors brush a coat on and leave till the paint blisters ( should be in seconds ) kill the nitromors with a coat of white spirits and scrape paint off ....
This always worked for me , I recommend doing a test to see how long the nitromors takes to penetrate the paint
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I oil paint on canvas boards, or canvas or MDF boards covered with primer and some texture paint. If a painting isn't very good - often the case with me - I scrape off any ridges of oil paint with a wallpaper stripping knife, This usually works. I then apply a mix of titanium white, burnt sienna and a touch of ultra blue to provide a warm, mid toned ground.
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Oh dear...... I don't know about the nitromors idea: never tried it or thought about it; but most of us won't have a can of it lying around, and it would be quicker and cheaper to just break the thing over your knee, I would have thought. What's in nitromors that makes it work, I wonder - you'd need to be sure you'd removed every trace of it before overpainting.
Cheer up though, Malcolm - at least it wasn't a stretched linen canvas... I suppose applying a matt varnish to even out the ridges wouldn't have worked.... (talking to myself again, I'm not at all sure that it would!). Nah - cut your losses and, unless you've got the nitromors and feel like taking a chance, have a quick swear and hoick out another board.
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Nitromors is really caustic and is designed to take any paint off furniture. Its not for the faint hearted or for using without rubber gloves. Best avoided. a new canvas would be cheaper and safer. However as I am often dissatisfied with my paintings on canvas and frequently paint over them. I therefore have a few solutions. Firstly don't bother with the ridges and paint in a more impasto style over the top. If you really want to get rid of the ridges, use a nylon scouring pad or work at them with Spirit Green to dissolve the paint. If the ridges are really big then use a craft knife e them. An extra layer of gesso does not go amiss either.