Experiments can get me in trouble sometimes…
Like the time I wanted to make a grape-vine wreath basket, and it turned out those vines in the backyard weren’t from grapes…
But instead they were the vines from the lovely Ivy of Poison!
Yikers. {But is was a lovely basket, I must say.}
Fortunately, for me… this experiment went just teensy bit better than than eighth-grade disaster.
The lead in is simple.
I had a door.
I wanted to paint that door.
It was metal.
Said door was in ye-ole garage… which was very dirty.
The door AND the garage…
Yikers…again.
Anyhoo, I want to clean them up. Â And paint the door.
But I’ve heard horror stories about painting acrylic over oil based, and I was not going to risk it, baby!
All you need is a little Isopropyl Alcohol.
Dip a Q-tip in the alcohol and in an inconspicuous area, rub it around on your test-subject.
If the paint pools and runs like above…
You’ve Got Acrylic!
So it’s safe to paint over it… and paint it I did! Â {That project is coming soon, yo.}
But it’s not only good for testing for Oil based paint… it’s good for removing acrylic paint.
See this stray spot?
Gone, daddy, gone!
So all those little stray dabs can be {carefully} cleaned up. Â Don’t go crazy and ruin the paint underneath, though.
And whatever you do, DON’T make a basket of Poison Ivy Vines…
Unless you need revenge… MU-whahahahaha!