Dear Fellow Art Coordinators,
I’m excited to share the new video we created to show the artists participating in our Traffic Signal Box Public Art Project how to clean, paint, prime and apply an isolation coat and a clear coat to the boxes.
This video is specific to water-based paints, such as acrylics and shows how to mix and use Golden Soft Gel Gloss with distilled water and Golden MSA with UVLS Varnish mixed with MSA Solvent.
There are other technical tips, such as using a nylon brush for the water-based primer as opposed to an animal hair brush which can absorb the water and become limp. We also tell how much water-based primer, Soft Gel Gloss and MSA Varnish
with UVLS it takes to coat a traffic signal box twice.
We will soon produce another similar video showing how to do the same processes when aerosol spray paint such as Montana 94 is used. In those cases, Golden Paint doesn’t recommend using the Soft Gel Gloss isolation coat.
We are in the midst of conducting experiments on a test box to see what works best related to protecting spray painted art works that are covered by a clear coat/varnish and then graffitied. We will be testing several products for the
clear coat applied over spray paint to see what happens when we remove the clear coat when there is no isolation coat present. We are thinking maybe extra clear coats so that earlier clear coats will act as an isolation coat.
We’re also testing different graffiti removal techniques and we’ll leave some graffiti on our test box for a long time and see what works. We’ll share the results of the research.
While we know, typically, other graffiti artist have an honor code that says they won’t paint over another artists work, we have seen taggers (who I don’t really consider artists) tagging some of our traffic signal boxes, so being sure
we know how to protect the artwork from the tagging on these boxes.
Here’s a link to the video. I hope it’s helpful to some of you who need the information….
Tammy Chan
Public Art Coordinator
1102 MacArthur Blvd.
Grand Prairie, TX 75050
972-237-8159 Office
214-212-7958 Cell