OK, so even though I spent about 4 hours on the archives I could not find the answer to this SPECIFIC question.
I went to Drew Brophy’s workshop @ Sacred Craft, bought his DVD, and tried painting a used board that’s already glassed. (No, definitely NOT one of my hulls! I’m a purist when it comes to those!) I followed all his instructions re: cleaning off wax, Naptha then acetone, sanding, etc. In Drew’s videos he uses regular “rattle cans” to paint used, already glassed boards, so I assumed that would work. I have some high quality SOLVENT based paints (Montana cans) that I use to paint at the Venice Art Walls, so I used those and got a cool “antiqued” look. But when I searched the Archives I kept seeing that you have to use WATER based paints, oooooh noooo Mr. Bill! My question is, if I use a good spray clear coat over the paint (like Drew does in his videos) will that protect the art sufficiently to surf the board? Or, once the clear coat is on it, could it also have a very thin resin gloss coat (no fiberglass) on top of that to seal it better? (Or would that resin start to deteriorate the paint and lead to a “hot mess”?)
Thanks and I appreciate your input (and I really DID search the archives first!)