maybe dumb question but i want to paint my (blank) board just a solid color because i like the slidey marks
what kind of paint should I use? I have some left over from painting some walls in my house, i think they're arcrylic paints?
Pretty much anything is ok, but if you do it too thick it might end up very sticky.
A couple of guys I skate with always only buy blanks and spray their own, usually single colours, but then put a lot of wax on their boards too, just to even out the stickiness. I used to always get blanks back in the day and paint them, sometimes it was very slick, other times I couldn't slide at all without a ton of wax.
At one point, I would use matt black to do the middle of new boards, because I liked more slick slide on the nose and tail, but didn't want to slip out on decker tricks, which worked well for me.
Higher gloss is more slick than matt finish too.
If you got a bit creative, you could mix it up some as we used to do, but the plain white deck (or single colour) really shows off the slide marks well.