Restoring an Acrylic Painting

[Alan Smithee]

I'm in the process of trying to "touch up" an acrylic painting which was
damaged by a 6" long scratch at the surface. So far I've been trying to very
small quantities of paint on the palette and daubing and then blurring the
results. Slooow and takes me forever to get the tint just right. Is there
some sort of solvent I can use to liquify the surrounding area of the
scratch and then use the original paint on the canvas (board in this case)
to fill the scratch back in? Thx.

[sarpedon]

"Alan Smithee" <AlanS...@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:<ASLWc.208995$gE.63803@pd7tw3no>...

Contact the manufacturers of acrylic paints, like liquitex, golden,
winsor & newton, grumbacher, daler-rowney, etc. You can ask them your
question, to which I don't know the answer. Try to find out what brand
the artist used. You might be helped by knowing where he painted the
picture since some brands are not available in all parts of the world.

You can check to see if the painting was varnished. If the varnish is
acrylic gloss, the touch ups you apply might not hold. Putting acrylic
matte varnish over the touch up areas first will help adhesion.
ammonia can dissolved acrylic gloss to a certain extent.

If you have not already done so, make color patches on small strips of
paper. then if a color is close you can tip it to warm or cool by
adding color.

sarpedon

[Cal Dia]

In article <59b1da2d.04082...@posting.google.com>,
the_...@yahoo.com says...

>Slooow and takes me forever to get the tint just right. Is there

I suspect you may be facing the same problems that
ALL users of acrylic paint face - the darkening of
the color as the paint dries. If you don't have
much experience working with acrylic paints, then
you should probably find someone who does and ask
them to assist you. You can see a good example of
what I'm talking about when you buy paint in a
paint store that you have had "custom mixed." The
clerk will usually dry a sample of the mixed paint
with a hot-air blower before deciding the color is
the correct mix. I wouldn't make the problem worse
by trying to dissolve paint next to the scratch,
and I don't know of a way to effectively reactivate
the paint once it's dried. You can dissolve and
remove it using certain alcohols, but I wouldn't.