I am not sure if i should have put this in "painting my Aleutian paddle", but today I tinted my polyurethane varnish with artists oil and pained my Aleutian dart. It was pine wood and i have a nicely coloured, somewhat transparent paint job. ( A bit like water colour)

The pigments are firm (not rubbing off) and it looks real nice. I would presume a second coat would reduce the transparency but I am not going to do that. I like what happened.

I have used an Australian made paint from Bondall. A Monocell gloss marine varnish polyurethane gloss. I rang their technical department to see if it was "oil based". They guy gave me a great lecture on why a polyurethane paint was in fact oil based. I understood only a little of it, but this paint is oil based and he seemed to think that all polyurethane paints were oil based! (?)

He also told me that artists oil pint would not work as a tint!!

It has been a good day.

Thank you all

: That is what I prefer to use, but it's also possible to use liquid paints.
: The artist's paints have the advantage of being easy to handle and they're
: available in a very broad range of colors.

: Polyurethane varnishes can be either oil based or water-borne. The label on
: the product will specify which it is. Oil-based varnishes are better for
: use on kayak skins, as water-borne products do not adhere reliably to
: Nylon fabrics.