Thread: Visqueen: Can you paint on it?

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Will visqueen hold a layer of acrylic paint, or even a gloss finish?

Will it hold some of the puff paints on the market?

And what would you use to sketch a design on visqueen? Sharpie? Grease pencil?

I ask because a friend is looking into making a faux stained glass window and figured that by putting a design on visqueen, doing the outlines in puff paint and painting the cells, he'd get a really close approximation.

Is there any reason this isn't doable? What would you suggest?

You can mark on visqueen with a sharpie, but paint won't stick at all. It will flake/peel off as soon as the visqueen flexes. You might have better luck with plexiglass, although paint doesn't stick to it well, either.

I know firsthand that paint will NOT stay on visqueen. We did a clown room last year and painted big colorful dots all over it. It wasn't 20 minutes and the paint was all over the ground! LMAO!