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I spend a fair bit of time doing this, find it absorbing and very very interesting indeed.

Water colours dry to fast for my liking, but Oils......O Boy! it's great fun!

Acrylic is quite interesting as well mind, as long as it is a wee bit gooey.

Artist

Spent the day watching 'Crown Cupbard makeover paint' dry the other night whilst putting the confuser back after Mein Kliene Phiranah Fish painted the dining room. It dried very slowly and won't be hard wearing for 2 weeks, even though it has had 2 coats and is now dry. The drying was a piece of cake but the smell was like... well, a pair of pussers dogs after a hot weather exercise and 2 weeks in NBC kit.
Top tip for any chaps when the wife wants the decorating doing:
GO OUT!
I did, was hell for an hour, but once she got into the swing of it she was fine

The time of year also has a very strong bearing on the drying time mindyou!

Artist

Artist wrote:I spend a fair bit of time doing this, find it absorbing and very very interesting indeed.
Water colours dry to fast for my liking, but Oils......O Boy! it's great fun!
Acrylic is quite interesting as well mind, as long as it is a wee bit gooey.

So you've just got back from the Vine, then, Artist, having imbibed a few quarts of bilge water? [er sorry - I meant Hydes Black!]

Hope to see you there tomorrow, circa 1530 hrs!

Sis aint had a wet since monday.

Ifen yer down tommorow will have piccy ready.

Artist

I cannot comment about Paint at this present time, but I can
quote an experience with Ronsons Varnish, It says on the tin that
you must allow 4 Hrs between applications well I sat and I sat until
I Got just about pissed off, so I put the 2nd coat on after only 2 and
a half hrs and it was fine, so I did the same with the next coat, and the
the next. and it was just fine. it states that it takes 4Hrs to dry to a
perfect hard finish. My supper was cold by the time I tested it,

Aye

John_D

John now thats what I call dedication mate!

You've gone up in my extimation ten fold you really have. No Messtins.

Did you reheat your din dins or rough it and eat it cold?

Artist

What I have always wondered. On that programme, "Changing Rooms", where they only have two days to complete everything, their paint seems to dry very quickly. I would like to know what kind of paint they use.

Aye - Andy.

Steve
Had to eat it cold it was the dining room doors I was Varnishing

Aye

John_D

Good point Andy

I think it's called dry paint, but don't quote me on that.

John negative tenfold insert twentyfold!

Artist

Andy
I think they are playing tricks with the camera's.

John_D

Have had the whole place [nearly] replastered. 3 coats of emulsion, working 8-10 hrs a day for 8 days. No probs. Then just refiitted all the architraves, door frames and skirting. One coat of under coat and two coats of gloss


I HATE HATE HATE painting gloss!!

I could live with being an 'artist' - but a painter and decorator'?? I'd slit my throat first.

I think I'm moving to graffiti on canal boats, next. [Anything to help the business, Artist! ]

Do remember the speckled paint they used in public toilet?,
It must take that a F kin long time, one of our toilets in the town
was closed for a week

John_D

The drying time of the paint must be connected to the colour used.
For instance if you use white the colour reflects heat therefore must dry slower than using black which absorbs the heat.
Also the amount of oil to paint colour needs to be considered.
The temperature and atmospheric pressure on the paint also is a very important factor.
Wind is also an interesting slant on the theory of painting in a windy Country.
I am developing a graph to actually pin point the exact time paint terminates its drying ability.
In fact i was going a step further by asking people around the world to compare paint drying of certain colours in various climatic conditions.
When i ask at the local college about courses on paint drying they seemed a bit unhelpfull.
Still people are strange sometimes.

[quote="old scaly back"]The drying time of the paint must be connected to the colour used.
.quote]

So that's where I was going wrong! The emulsion dried in 2 hrs and the piggin' gloss took 16-24hrs, irrespective of the colour.

Seems like it's true that oil and water really don't mix.