I have just started to paint at 75 (after a lifetime of wishing I could). You make it look so easy and your end result so effect you inspire me to keep trying.
Good video. To the point, no silly jokes and time wasting like some instructional videos. I just want to learn techniques, not attend a comedy club. Thank you!
This was the first video that I have seen on varnishing that really explains the process as well as the isolation coat. Finally comfortable with trying it now. Thanks😎
My heart sank with every liberally prescribed waiting time. I’m so impatient. “One week to dry here” “several hours each coat” … “wait SEVERAL weeks till complete”… in five years my painting will be done 🤦🏻♂️
This is not just to protect but to improve the paint in most of cases... I cant wait to do it on my paints... I painted like 10 paints in 2 weeks and every one has their own spirit.. I am having a good time on my life... enjoy painting and I am trying to discipline myself to become a real artist... FInally I am getting something that is coming inside from me, despite I am "stealing" others tips and ideas... look me here, I am learning!!
Thank you Colin . Extremely well explained and very much professional in your approach of teaching. Cheers and thank you for your time to do this video .
Thanks Colin and Opus for posting this....very, very helpful. Have not seen you lately Colin, when I've been in for supplies or attending demos, so nice to see you doing this video, hope you do more.
Excellent video😊😊👍👍👍 informative video and nice presentation too!! Thanks for sharing 👍👍😊🥰 Golden acrylics and supporting gel like varnish, thinning gels and gloss liquid all are amazing result will give!!! I love golden acrylic 😊😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Thanks a lot for this video. I didn’t use to varnish my paintings back when I was doing more of them, so on this rebirth of mine this is extremely useful.
Thank you for this tutorial! I very much needed it. I almost died inside when you said you should mix some water with the varnish, I didn't do that my first attempt... and I definitely didn't know about the gel medium first... hopefully my paintings will be fine lol. Now I know!
I don't think an isolation coat is required unless you are using removable varnish and I'm not sure why a removable varnish would be used on an acrylic painting. I've been using non-removable acrylic varnish forever with no I'll effects that I know of. It protects the artwork and the varnish can be cleaned so there would be no need to remove it to clean the painting. What am I missing here? 🤔
@@kittywilhite9583 The isolation coat serves a couple purposes. First it evens out the finish of the painting to eliminate areas which might be more absorbent and which would make your varnish go on unevenly, and secondly it provides a barrier layer between the painting and the varnish, making removal easier and safer. The reason you want a varnish to be removable is because one of the purposes of a varnish is to take all the years of environmental abuse and protect the painting. Smoke, dust, dirt, etc... will over time be absorbed by the varnish, so by using a removable varnish all that grime gets cleaned off with the varnish when it becomes necessary to remove it. The painting stays nice and clean, and a fresh coat of varnish can be applied; but we're talking decades, or even a century or longer before it's usually done.
Amazing video content that got straight to the information I needed, thank you for the demonstration. The only question I was wondering is What city & State are you guys located?
As a professional educator, I will tell you that you did a wonderful presentation on this topic. It was clear (instructionally & in speaking tone & volume), concise and useful to any who wants/needs to learn how to varnish (esp. for the non-learned artist). Very nice.
Thank you for this valuable information. Question⁉️ If I glossed too early and painting became cloudy in some areas is it ok to re- varnish and will that bring life back into my painting or am I sunk❓🙏🏼🤔👩🏻🎨🎨🦋💚 Thank you in advance for answering my question.
This video was well done. I’ve gone to 6 stores and can’t find the varnish I want. I’m gonna buy some online soon, but I’ve just been using hairspray and I think it looks the same, maybe.
