Moving on to oil project #2

Today I started on the second project using the water mixable oils. This one is adapted from a book by Kerry Smith, MDA. It is part of the design that will go on the wheelbarrow box. I am painting on a tag sale lazy susan. I'm not sure what it is made of, It looks a little like MDF, although it could be some other sort of synthetic wood. It was the very devil to clean up, but we finally managed. I applied a coat of a high adhesive primer and then base coated the surface with DecoArt Americana Dark Chocolate. It took three coats to get opaque coverage. The directions said to spray with a Krylon product before painting. Since I don't spray anything, I applied one coat of Final Coat wipe-on varnish assuming that it would do the same thing. This surface is more slippery than the key box was--probably because of the primer and then the varnish. I think a little more drag on the surface might make applying the paint easier. I am going to have to wait until Sunday afternoon or Monday before continuing. I am finding that the paint does not dry as quickly as the informational materials said it would. I may have to repaint the first stage painting so that it looks a bit less transparent and then wait again for it to dry before moving on to stage two. I am not sure that I am cut out to paint with traditional-type oils--no patience for the drying process.