Is it possible to remove acrylic paint from canvas without damaging the rest of the painting?

My husband is painting a picture for his parents for Christmas and has messed up a small part of the painting, He's tried painting over it, but can't get the right shade anymore. He's using acrylics. Is there a way to remove that small area of paint, without damaging the rest of the painting so that he can redo it?Is it possible to remove acrylic paint from canvas without damaging the rest of the painting?
I teach acrylic painting lessons and use this medium daily. Acrylic has a plastic blend and when it dries it's not coming off. Keep working on matching the colors where the problem area is. Just layer the colors little by little...be patient it will come together. I just finished a painting of a pair of beagles...the owner of the painting wanted me to change the color of the hair coat on one of the dogs. Which meant I had to basically start my layering all over from scratch. So I did this and worked on it for a few hours and it came together and the owner was happy with the results.Is it possible to remove acrylic paint from canvas without damaging the rest of the painting?
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Its acrylic, it is WATER BASED PAINT so water is the best way to remove not thinners. If you really want to do this it will become a tiresome process, dip nylon brush in water and slowly start scrubbing %26amp; dry with cotton.


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This is a dificult problem.


You can try to use a little bit of diluded paint thinner to get some of it off but it doesnt always work.


One thing I have found that works best is Gesso.


It is a white type of paint that you can put over an entire canvass or a small are and it makes it white again and you are able to ';start over'; in that area. It may take a few coats but it is well worth it.


Any paint shop will have it.


Good luck.
use something small like a q-tip and get some paint thinner. every time you wipe and get the q-tip tainted with color, use a different side because you might smear it to other places.
No, it is not possible. First of all, acrylics is a waterbase media. I would not recommend putting any thinner of any kind on the picture. I really have difficulty visualizing wanting to take paint off of the picture. It would really have to be applied thick and only when it is still wet could it be removed.


I have in the past however use a light weight sandpaper to take some texture down in an old painting so I could apply gesso and start again. Gesso is a primer for canvases that should actually be applied before starting a painting.


Good luck and God bless
Acrylic is sometimes tough to work with when it's dry. If the strokes were pretty light, you can just paint over it. I've worked with it quite a bit and usually, I would just get another canvas and start over. But if it's a very small area, I wouldn't be opposed to taking fine sandpaper and ***lightly*** sanding it down and reapplying gesso. Sounds like a feasible idea. Paint thinner won't work because acrylic is water-based.
Hi,





I don't work with acrylics but, what about sanding it with a very thin grain sandpaper ?


Carefull NOT to dent the canvas with the pressure.


You can also ask this at the Acrylics forum at :


http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums





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