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Re: painting styrofoam

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From: Maggie White (mwhiteaz_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 17:03:04 PDT

Ann Wilschke wrote:
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> Greetings!
> Can anyone tell me what the trick is to painting
> styrofoam????? Does tempera work? or do you have to use special
> paint? Is there spray paint that works??

I think I remember trying spray paint once and it dissolved the foam.
Acrylics work fine; depending on what you're doing you could apply a
layer of paper mache and then paint that.

Maggie 

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