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Can I mix oil and acrylic paints? Can I paint over an acrylic painting with oil painting, or vice versa?

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Can I mix oil and acrylic paints? Can I paint over an acrylic painting with oil painting, or vice versa?

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Oil-based and acrylic paints cannot be mixed. Acrylic paints are water-based. There is a new type of paint out now, called alkyd paint. Although it is water-based, alkyd paint can be used with oil paints. You can never paint in acrylic over a painting previously done in oil paint.