Can you mix oil paint and stain?

Answer 1

I am not sure how to do it yourself but I know it can be done. I just had it done at Home Depot (though they told be the couldn't color a quart). They could color a pint and a gallon but not a quart, go figure! I had it colored black but they had a lot of different choices in colors and types of stains.

Answer 2

I am no paint expert

Yes you can mix paint with stains. I work at Lowes and I am the paint dept guy(been there 3 months).

We have tintable stains oil and water base and we add water based tints (color) to the stain to get almost any color you would want. Now if you want to add paint to an already colored stain I am sure it would work the same, just cant be sure what color it would come out to but I see no reason why you couldnt to slightly modify your colors.

Now I see a lot of stuff saying you can only mix oil base paints with oil based stains. At Lowes I am pretty sure we add water based paints to oil and water based stains. I the same machine squirts the tint into the cans. Even squirts tint into the valspar armor paint and thats an oil based paint. So I have no idea why people say you have to do oil with oil.

Answer 3

Many stores still sell tubes of pigment . That is the second best way to do it. The best of course is finding a friendly store that will shoot a few drops from their colouring mixer.

Answer 4

yes