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For the longest time I've never painted anything on my computer desk for fear of getting paint on things, especially my monitor. I've only ever done it on a separate desk away from everything, but as time has passed that's ultimately meant that I do a LOT less painting than I otherwise would have, realistically.

I really only use Citadel paints, so I suppose I should ask - does anyone here know if one would just be screwed if we get paint on a monitor, or if these paints really can be cleaned up off of basically anything and everything pretty readily, even a monitor screen? Are there any good paint cleanup guides out there for Citadel paints that would cover that and then some, maybe?

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No idea how to get it off. Can you clean a screen with alcohol? If so maybe that'd work.

I do paint in front of my computer, I set up a shroud so that if I spray paint by accident it gets caught by the shroud instead of the monitor. I also open/close paints below my desk for the same reason, some like to splatter as they open/close.

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A damp cloth will probably do it if it's only a small quantity of paint.

Or a spot of White Spirit.
   
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Bodt

Just wipe it off if it's wet, or scrape it off with a fingernail if it's dry.

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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Just wipe it off if it's wet, or scrape it off with a fingernail if it's dry.


Yeah? But that's really not even going to leave any kind of micro mark or anything?

Also what's White Spirit...?

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Bodt

Nah, should come clean off. White spirit is a solvent derived from petroleum. It's used as a paint thinner for oils and enamels. Personally I don't think it's necessary for cleaning up acryllics. How much risk is the monitor at of getting paint on, surely it's mounted vertically, so the only risk is small errant flecks?

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I tend to use a small amount of alcohol hand sanitizer gel and a microfibre cloth to clean screens at work. At home I tend to use lens cleaner spray. But then most of what I'm cleaning is ancient and I'm not too worried about doing any damage...
   
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Once acrylic paint is dried, it can be super stubborn. You can try solvents and IPA and such, but the magic stuff to dissolve and remove dried paint is "Goof Off" - just spray onto a cloth and massage into the paint and it will melt away.

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Once acrylics dry, white spirits should not affect them. Rubbing alcohol is probably your best bet, or just scratch it off.
   
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Monitors then to be glossy plastic on the trim so I expect paint will stick but not well and I’d be surprised if it suck to the screen with any strength.

I’d just start with a wet wipe and see how that goes otherwise you can get paint cleaning wipes (I’m sure)

However prevention is best, why not get an old sheet and put it over the monitor when painting
   
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Crispy78 wrote:
I tend to use a small amount of alcohol hand sanitizer gel and a microfibre cloth to clean screens at work. At home I tend to use lens cleaner spray. But then most of what I'm cleaning is ancient and I'm not too worried about doing any damage...


Hand sanitizer gel? Really? That generally has moisturisers in it. I once had the bright idea of using it to clean a keyboard and it left and ugly film that was harder to clean off than the grime that was originally on it, lol, can't imagine it'd be great for a monitor.

I don't use any cleaning product on my screens, because my last screen I used something that was supposedly safe for monitors but left hazy marks in the matte coating that you couldn't really see if the screen was bright, but on dark scenes watching netflix or playing games they were quite noticeable.

mrFickle wrote:
Monitors then to be glossy plastic on the trim so I expect paint will stick but not well and I’d be surprised if it suck to the screen with any strength.

I’d just start with a wet wipe and see how that goes otherwise you can get paint cleaning wipes (I’m sure)

However prevention is best, why not get an old sheet and put it over the monitor when painting


My experience is most screens these days are matte coated, not gloss coated. Unless we're talking about laptops/tablets, in which case, yeah, most of them are glossy. But desktop screens are mostly matte.... maybe 15 or 20 years ago gloss screens were reasonably common (not sure if they were MORE common, but we'll say "somewhat common"), but I think matte became more popular because it's less sensitive to your room's lighting (a gloss screen can look like a mirror during a dark scene in a light room).

If your screen is a gloss screen rather than a matte one, then it's going to be way easier to clean and less sensitive to chemicals. My last couple of laptops had gloss screens so those I'd just spray down with a cleaning solution and wipe them off with a cloth but the same process on the aforementioned matte screen is what turned the coating hazy.

Sooo, I guess the answer is maybe "depends what type of screen you have".


Personally I'd consider setting up an acrylic sheet or similar to cover my monitor if I were worried, but the way my desk is set up the shroud I mentioned in my previous post makes me feel safe enough to paint in front of my computer.

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mrFickle wrote:
Monitors then to be glossy plastic on the trim so I expect paint will stick but not well and I’d be surprised if it suck to the screen with any strength.

I’d just start with a wet wipe and see how that goes otherwise you can get paint cleaning wipes (I’m sure)

However prevention is best, why not get an old sheet and put it over the monitor when painting


Mostly during particular meetings so I can watch along while I paint lol, thanks. The thing is my monitor is only a year old, really really great, and also not under any warranty. So I...do need to be careful. It seems like it shouldn't be too bad but now I'm a little bit afraid of any paint I might miss, gets to dry and becomes stubborn. Not 100% sure how rubbing alcohol etc would work on a monitor since I've only ever used special monitor cleaning solutions...maybe it'd be fine though. But regardless I'm also thinking about hooking up a spare monitor to my work laptop during certain times of the week now so I can just watch along on my hobby desk lol

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