Was going through a bunch of my grandmother’s art stuff and found tons of little tubes of Artist Oil Colours, and was wondering if these were the same paint pigments that I’ve heard can be mixed with epoxy?
I have a feeling they’re not but I figured I would ask anyway. Thanks
I doubt it… but you could always do a little test batch. You never know…you might discover something!
Oil and epoxy don’t mix. Disaster!
Oil and epoxy don’t mix. Disaster!
That deserves a second…
and in case anyone missed it… Oil and epoxy don’t mix. Disaster!
The oil will inhibit the resin from hardening.
tempera powder perhaps
Thanks for the help guys, I’ll just leave it all in the closet. I figured oil and epoxy won’t mix, but wasn’t sure if this was oil-based or if it was used to pigment oil paint.
Rachel, just to add a small bit of info: Your second picture shows one ingredient as linseed oil. I think that’s what triggered the oil alert. Doug
As amply stated on here it won’t mix well with epoxy.
On a related note. My mate is the paint desk manager at the local Bunnings warehouse. He knows a lot about paint. He also has access to raw pigment. The interesting bit is - he reckons it’s not compatible with epoxy or poly! He says it has a liquid component that makes it incompatable and that the guys working on surfboards, swimming pools, etc use a different type of pigment.
I’ve yet to do a test so I can’t verify that either way. It’s also possible that’s only the case here (that’d be right).
Still though it might make for interesting discussion. Has anyone tried hardware store pigment in epoxy and/or poly?
I used just a simple waterbased acrylic paint, normal airbrush paint, and it worked wonderfully. To get a real deep color, a lot is neccessary, but it works well with epoxy.
irrelevant but I’ve just sprayed a blank using cheap 2$ acryllic paint mxed with a lot of water (1 to 20 ratio kind of thing) it worked really nicely for what it is.
I assume you have both used regular paint directly on the blank/balsa/whatever and allowed it to dry properly.
As opposed to adding pigment to the epoxy/poly.