The 6-Month Rule Explained: Your Guide to Varnishing Your Oil Paintings!✨
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Did you know that you should wait 6 months before varnishing your oil paintings? 🤔
It's not just some arbitrary rule, but a crucial step to ensure your artwork looks its best & lasts for years to come. 🎨 BTW - yes, varnishes like Gamvar can be used earlier in the curing process but the painting still has to be FULLY touch dry! Not just non-smudgeable - a difficult distinction to judge. Many folks use Gamvar too early.
I get a LOT of questions about this from beginners to seasoned pros so here is a slightly longer vid (I released a short earlier on this topic).
Artists, art restorers, scientists, whoever, plz comment & share any tips, experiences, or advice you have for oil painters about this topiv & any creative ways you’ve tackled the practicalities about drying time. So, be sure to like, comment and share with your fellow artists so we can all learn from each other’s experience! 🙌 s
These are the best painting guidance videos on TH-cam. It’s a shame this channel hasn’t blown up yet
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It will!!
Great video with a lot of great details. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! 🤗
Ty I found your varnishing options very helpful. Much appreciated
Glad it was helpful!
You are such a knowledgeable expert
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Thanks .I will try furnishing
So helpful!
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just found your channel . Its so informative
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Great vids
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Omg… I’m a digital artist and I just bought stuff because my sister in law is getting married and I decided to attempt an oil painting of her and her fiance as a gift. but um it’s in 10 days even if I start and finish in a day it wont dry :(
Oh dear! If you don’t paint too thickly & use linseed or alkyd oils it could ‘feel dry’ aka be unsmudgable before the event & you can gift the painting then let it fully cure before varnishing later. I’m sure they’ll appreciate such a thoughtful gift even if it’s not fully dry/cured in time for the wedding!
@@dorisroseart I really admire you more now because I tried to paint today, and honestly it's so much work! To set up all the necessary stuff in a working space, mixing and searching for colours, the smell of paint and turpentine, the cleaning everything after was such a hassle! And so much patience to wait for it to dry several times. Digital art is amazing honestly you have infinite canvas, colours, brushes, no cleaning or mess is involved, you can always take things back, play with proportions etc. For this i had to buy lots of stuff and the white paint I already used most of .. traditional art is seriously expensive and effort consuming I think I'll stick with my tablet :) I did a really bad job as well . I was expecting paint to be thicker for some reason or maybe I'm the problem, but it didn't hold like I wanted, I wanted to put layers on the base colours and I had to use a lot of white , like thin white lines that are very clear, for her dress details which were full of white flower and plant motives over light blue, didn't hold at all so I gave up on that. I'd done watercolour on thick paper before and was happy with those results. Oil definitely doesn't agree with me
Do you have any opinions on using egg white as a varnish?
I’ve only ever heard of using egg white as egg tempera paint. I’ve never heard of it being used as a varnish. Usually varnish of the past was made of some sort of resin. I prefer to use a modern synthetic varnish. 🤗