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This is the most recent version of the 10 foot wall mural I painted my mom for mothers day. She has a shed in her back yard that is made up of wood planks, like these. One plank was badly rotten so, she replaced it with this plank and asked me to paint a lake mural on it.

Afterwards, a coat of urethane was applied with the intention of preserving the painting since it was going to be displayed outside without shelter from the elements. Unfortunately, the urethane ate away at the acrylic paints and dissolved a good portion of the sky and burgundy areas (foliage etc). It stained all of the lake a neon bright orange, bubbled the yellow areas around the sun and left desaturated splotches all over in random areas on the boat. I painted over parts of the lake (the blue parts) before finally just calling it a day. In order to fix this, I must paint over everything again with at least one coat.. we were both equally quite upset when we discovered what had happened.

On a positive note though, although the boat now has some random desaturated splotches, it did end up saturating most of the boat. It will give the painting a different colour scheme but - it could work if I fix the patchy areas. Everything above the boat needs to be repainted..

This is not ruined... it just became unfinished again.

Description
This is the most recent version of the 10 foot wall mural I painted my mom for mothers day. She has a shed in her back yard that is made up of wood planks, like these. One plank was badly rotten so, she replaced it with this plank and asked me to paint a lake mural on it.

Afterwards, a coat of urethane was applied with the intention of preserving the painting since it was going to be displayed outside without shelter from the elements. Unfortunately, the urethane ate away at the acrylic paints and dissolved a good portion of the sky and burgundy areas (foliage etc). It stained all of the lake a neon bright orange, bubbled the yellow areas around the sun and left desaturated splotches all over in random areas on the boat. I painted over parts of the lake (the blue parts) before finally just calling it a day. In order to fix this, I must paint over everything again with at least one coat.. we were both equally quite upset when we discovered what had happened.

On a positive note though, although the boat now has some random desaturated splotches, it did end up saturating most of the boat. It will give the painting a different colour scheme but - it could work if I fix the patchy areas. Everything above the boat needs to be repainted..

This is not ruined... it just became unfinished again.