Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Oil-FREAKING-based paint.

I have 3 main colors for all of my big projects, black blue and red. The first can of red paint looked nothing like it said it should, it seemed like it was watered down, super crappy, so I took it back and got a different brand. The ONLY other kind they had ended up being oil based (which I didn't notice when I bought it) My black and blue are water based. All my big things that need black are done, and I only have the top of one side of the truck to do in blue. currently between the two I'd do one color, wash my brush and do the other color while the first dried.
So today with my new vibrant red paint, I started painting away during Danton's nap. Blue first, wash my brush, go on to red.
WOW this red paint coated VERY well only small sections even NEED a second coat. But I noticed it wasn't drying very fast. So I washed my bush so I could to the FINAL coat of blue. Only to find out that I was using oil based paint and I have NO mineral spirits, OR acetone. BAH!
I MAY have salvaged the brush, I did find an oil solvent chemical, but there was not much. I'll see what it's like after it dries. It's soft, but still red.
Anyway, I had to STOP (grrr) in the middle of Danton's nap. If I had realized it was oil based I'd have put it back, however if I new how well it painted I would have kept it and just got a chemical to clean it with. If I had been prepared I could have gotten almost ALL of my red painting done durring Dantons Nap, and had the truck with it's final coat. But now, I have to wait till I can go to wal mart (which is hard when you are a one car family...we sold the truck on Saturday and we are currently between cars) and I have to buy another brush and some mineral spirits. *sigh* oh well.
Oh one other thing just so you know oil based takes 2-4 times LONGER to dry. So in the mean time it's a good thing I can lock my laundry room, cause this is what it looks like.
Oh, and my hands are VERY red from attempting to clean the brush.
On a happy note, I got some more pictures of Danton yesterday. He likes Daddy's "scary" shirts. When he wears them Danton goes "AH! Scary" Well he saw Daddy's scary shirt in the laundry yesterday before I got it in the wash and insisted on wearing it.

1 comment:

Sheri said...

Little Garry says: "I love Danton. His face is super cute."

I think so too. That is an awesome shirt. And oil based paint, blast. It looks beautiful, though!