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coating foam with resin to paint...some questions for a beginner?
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I am relatively new to painting and soon to be making large stand up sculptures that I am coating with resin and painting. Does anyone have any knowledge of coating materials with resin and in particular applying resin to styro foam..what is the best resin to use and should the paint be applied forst then coat with resin last?
Due to the small working enviroment I am working within I was looking for some kind of very large trough or something I can place the sculpture into that has sides so the paint and resin cannot drip over onto the floor...does such a thing exist? If painting a large piece that requires both front and back painted is it best to paint the front and sides first and wait for it to dry before proceeding to the back or is there anything available that acts like a vice or holds large items in place so all sides can be painted in a relatively quicker time?
Final question...does anyone know of any studio/workshop spaces in North West London that may be vailable to rent, as due to the size of materials I am painting I do not currently have the space working from home?
thanks for any help in advance.
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I don't have any experience of this, and presumably neither does anyone else because your question remains sadly unanswered - but then it was pushed down by other topics, so perhaps bumping it up again might produce a reply second time around.
I think I would seek advice from an art college - or art student, even, if you happen to know one. All I know about resin is that you can paint on it with polyvinyl or acrylic paints, and sort of hope it'll work, but the styrofoam - never used it; presumably it's stable and inert. So it should take more or less whatever you choose to apply to it. Can't help with the trough - what sort of scale are we talking about? Nor, I fear, with the studio - expensive beasts, I know that much. Good luck.
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Builders use Unibond to cover non-porous surfaces that they want to cover with other stuff like plaster. I think it is a form of PVA glue. So it should work with anything that you want to put on top. Experimenting seems to be the thing here. If you want a trough, and do not want to spend much money then look for an old farm trough.