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The Truth About Varnishing Oil Paintings: Why You Should Wait 6 Months 👵
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2023
- Did you know that you should wait 6 months before varnishing your oil paintings? 🤔
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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.
In this video, I'll walk you through this inconvenient reality by thinking about what I consider the three stages of oil paint drying (aka curing) & give you tips on what you can do (IMO) during each stage when it comes to exhibiting, shipping/packaging, meeting commissions, and varnishing your work. 🖼️📦✨
social media can make it seem like oil paintings are made, varnished, & shipped like magic 🪄 it’s understandable people are surprised when they start understanding the realities of their materials & it contradicts what they’ve seen. I get a LOT of questions about this from beginners to seasoned pros so wanted to share a slightly longer vid as this information is essential for any oil painter! Find a longer vid here on my RUclips coming soon.
Artists, art restorers, scientists, whoever plz comment & share any tips, experiences, or advice you have for oil painters about this & any creative ways you’ve tackled this. (I know artists who return to their painting after delivery to varnish later). So, be sure to like, comment and share with your fellow artists so we can all learn from each other’s experience! 🙌
Omg that painting is amazingggg😢 its like my vision without glasses haha. (In a good way awesome effect)
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This was the exact question I had in mind today. Thanks for the info❤
You are so welcome!
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is there anything i should know about oil painting before trying it? because i would love to try it but i am terrified of using it so
I just started with oils not knowing a lot & learned over time - I def recommend going for it! But there are a few things it’s good to know before hand. First make sure u use a solvent that’s a slow evaporating mineral spirit (like gamsol) rather than turpentine especially if you are in an enclosed/unventilated space. You should also make sure if you have a very oily rag don’t ball it up and put it in the trash but let it dry flat first as like any oily product it can be a fire hazard. But don’t be scared by that! It’s very easy to be safe. Also it can be an adjustment getting used to the flow of a different kind of paint so be patient with yourself & have fun! 🤩
@@dorisroseart thank you!!
There are water soluble oil paints now (not acrylic), might be easier since you just use water as a solvent.
i realized recently that i still have quite a few things to learn about varnishing so this helps! i never thought of it before but, do varnish brushes need to be cleaned a certain way or is cleaning them similar to cleaning oil paint off of brushes?
I find them harder to clean than regular paint brushes as the varnish takes stronger solvent to break down than paint. Normally I first wash my paint brushes in my painting solvent (gamsol a mineral spirit) before soap and water. However my mineral spirit isn’t strong enough to be useful for varnish brushes. Instead I just go straight to soap and warm water & though I can usually wash them successfully it takes me a lot longer than with normal paint brushes so I find it a bit more tedious.
@@dorisroseartthank you for the response! i work solvent free so i'm trying to maintain that through my entire process, but i didn't think about varnishing yet as i haven't felt like getting into all that yet 😅 and i haven't really made anything worth vanishing yet. this is good to know!
I dont varnish. I let the buyer decide or the conservationist deal with the issue of protecting the work.
It’s much better to educate the buyer & allow them to make the decision than varnish too early in a rush 👍
I varnished a painting about a week maybe less after painting it because I needed to ship it…… it’s getting delivered today….. I hope it’s okay lol
Your painting will be fine. The issue with varnishing early is it becomes one with the paint layer and can’t be removed down the line. The idea of varnish is that it catches the dust & grime over the years and they you can remove it and reapply a new layer of varnish and the painting is effectively cleaned. In your case that won’t be possible unless you apply another layer of varnish. However, the painting usually won’t be damaged by adding varnish too early so you don’t need to worry.
I use fast drying mediums like liquin which speed up the drying time. you don't have to wait 6 months that's ridiculous.
6 months is the average. You’re right that alkyd mediums like Liquin, as well as painting thinly, using fast dry colours/pigments & other environmental factors speed up the cure time & using slow dry mediums like safflower/walnut, thick paint etc slow it down. It can range from 3 months to more than a year. But there is no easy test so unless you have a scientific understanding of all the factors using the 6 month average is standard.
Yeah I only use Liquin with glazing technique, and it only takes 36 hours max to be dry