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RE: Original Painting: Farmhouse on Harvested Wood
beautifully done, great work. I've done a few acrylic paintings on wood (in different forms), do you have concerns of the paint flaking? or did you seal yours?
There shouldn't be any problems with acrylic paint flaking if it's going to be displayed indoors and it's high quality acrylic paint. I use NovaColor paint manufactured and sold out from Culver City, CA. Their paint is as good as Liquitex, Golden, or Windsor & Newton, but at about 1/3 of the price! But yes, I do normally seal my paintings with a clear satin varnish. I didn't do that with this one, because I wanted the wood to look raw and not shiny. I think I just used a flat finish matte medium over the whole painting and then faded it off to the edges. In other words, I didn't apply any paint or medium to the raw wood at all, but just let it look natural.
I'm a Master Finisher of 30 + years , you are doing it fine if you want to do it better for sealing the would . Use Sherwin Williams Water White Conversion Varnish w/ the acid catalyst. This product is made for high end high use furniture and cabinetry . 2 coat's and you can put anything on it and top coat with anything you want . You cannot put it on anything but it's self.