Simple and beautiful manhole cover painting

Can acrylic pigment be coated on metal?

Of course. The paintings you see on the manhole cover are usually painted in acrylic.

Characteristics of propylene pigment:

(1) can be diluted with water to facilitate cleaning;

② Quick drying. Pigment can be dried within a few minutes after putting pen to paper, and there is no need to wait for months to polish it like oil painting. Painters who like slow-drying pigments can use retarders to delay the drying time of pigments;

(3) When the colored layer is dried, it will quickly lose its solubility and form a tough, elastic and impermeable film. This film is similar to rubber;

(4) The color is full, dense and fresh, and it will not feel "dirty" or "gray" no matter how it is blended. The colored layer will never have oil absorption and pollution;

(5) The work has long durability. The oil film in oil painting is easy to oxidize, yellow and harden for a long time, and it is easy to crack the picture. Theoretically, acrylic films will never become brittle or yellow.

Extended data

The manhole cover painting is a painting created on the background of manhole cover or manhole cover and its nearby scenery. The creator can not only doodle on a single manhole cover, but also use the nearby manhole cover or the nearby road surface for creative design to make the graffiti creative works more ornamental.

Create background

The tradition of using beautiful patterns on manhole covers began in the 1980s when 19 was initiated by a Japanese named YasutakeKameda. At that time, he was an architect of Japan National Architecture Office.

At that time, the sewer system in Japanese cities was similar to that in China now, which was expensive but inconspicuous. In order to make this huge government project attract more people's attention and popularity, YasutakeKameda came up with the idea of "making the surface of the manhole cover more visual and eye-catching".

Therefore, he encouraged cities, towns and rural areas to develop manhole cover designs with local characteristics. Gradually, personalized manhole covers became popular all over Japan.