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Heat-Setting Acrylics
I wanted to finish a needle in a pollock-like color scheme because there are hordes of the little brown bombers up my way this year. To do this I figured I'd skip over the rattle-cans and break out the airbrush.
After, I thought I'd heat-set the acrylic. My oven's lowest setting is 170, and I had it in there for 8 minutes. Unfortunately, in several spots bubbles appeared from gas escaping from the wood (yellow birch sealed with 100% Tung).
I think I just learned another building lesson (#13 of 1,000,000+).
What do some of you do to heat-set your acrylics? Clearly my problem was too hot / too long.
Thank you,
Eric
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