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You can, but bare plywood drinks paint unevenly and the grain raises, so the result is usually blotchy and needs extra coats. The fix is one coat of stain-blocking primer first. Prime, then paint, and a single topcoat covers evenly.

Two things go wrong. The porous face soaks up colour at different rates, leaving a patchy finish, and tannins or resin in the wood can bleed yellow-brown rings through a light topcoat. On softwood faces with knots that bleed-through is almost guaranteed. Primer seals the surface and blocks the stain.

A stain-blocking primer is the seal for most jobs, so a separate sealer is not usually needed. Reach for a dedicated sealer only on very resinous softwood faces, panels going into high-humidity rooms, or raw cut edges that want a penetrating sealer worked in before filler.

Not if you want the finish to hold. Mill glaze and roller texture stop paint from gripping and telegraph straight through the topcoat. Sand the face at 120 grit, finish at 220, wipe off the dust, then prime. Skipping the sand is the most common reason a coat peels later.

Exterior-grade acrylic latex with UV inhibitors. Acrylic stays flexible through wet-dry and freeze-thaw cycles, and the UV package fights fading and chalking. Prime with an exterior stain-blocking primer and seal every edge twice. Remember that paint makes plywood water-resistant, not waterproof, so start from a moisture-rated panel for anything that meets real water.