Thank you for a detailed answer sir. I've been worrying for a month now, if I should buy varnish or not... so I decided not to paint anything until I got a real answer. I was so confused. Now I guess I can paint stuff without having to varnish! Once again, thanks! 😃❤
When you varnish, do you brush it on? I've been using Windsor Newton spray -- outside -- it has a really strong smell. Do you get brush marks if you brush it on? I didn't know that unvarnished acrylic gets a patina and that it doesn't fade. Interesting. Suggestion: If you are going to photograph your work to make prints, varnish AFTER you photograph. The varnish will put glare on the photo, as you showed us with your landscape with cows, Clive. Thanks for another great lesson.
Carolyn Riddle I am making a full lesson on varnish in the next week so Ill answer all your questions on that good point on the photograph ill cover that also your very welcome.checkout all my videos at www.clive5art.co.uk
If I have multiple paintings on canvas board to store, what would you recommend putting between them to keep them from getting damaged or sticking together?
I've been really going back and forth with varnishing, since I work as a painter who paints live at events. Typically I do finish the last 5-10% of a painting at home since I like to make sure my clients are completely satisfied, but there are a couple times that I wouldn't have minded surrendering the painting at the end of the night. Part of me is thinking I might suggest that if they're worried about dust to frame the painting under glass. I know this typically isn't done with acrylic paintings on canvas but it's seeming like the least complicated way of dealing with this issue.
Thank you for your always informative videos... I like your studio - hope my own studio, which my husband is starting to build this week, will be just as nice.
"Don't worry about all these things. Just get a paintbrush and enjoy the process of painting" I wish my art teacher had said that. The first day in middle school, she did a long and winding double period of everything we needed to paint in her class. It was so confusing and the price of everything seemed too much that I nearly lost it in the store. Half of my class hated art because of that teacher. This craziness went on for about a month. For a month, none of us did anything because we just did not know anything about the materials. I was so excited to paint (before that we had only been using dry media) and this was irritating me. Strong headed as I am, I said, chuck it, what does she know about MY process? I bought a canvas, acrylic paints and just went to town with the 2 brushed I had. I never bought anything she told me to. TBH, I thought I would fail her class for not following her instructions (not one) and I got more and more worried as the year went by. But it did not make any difference in my passing the class with flying colours. Honestly, people should just stop confusing beginners.
Thanks a great help😊😊I'm just starting trying acrlylic painting but couldn't any varnish so thought I couldn't do my picture but now I see I can leave the varnish I'm going to try it.great sense of humour x
Hello Clive, I've recently just varnish my first painting and it completely ruined it. I used Geleria gloss varnish and a very soft Daler Rowney system 3 brush (bought just for varnishing) but when i applied the varnish it bubbled up and went all cloudy in many areas. The hole process has forced my confidence down a few notches but if i don't varnish my paintings then they can look really unattractive without the unified reflected properties that varnishing achieves. Do you have any advice. Kind regards, Mark
+Mark firstly the painting has to cure for a minimum of 2 weeks or the moisture in the paint will cloud the varnish You must stir the varnish very very carefully not to create air bubbles I'll send you a link on how to varnish To avoid the use of varnish just add glazing medium to your paints to give a lustrous look
Thanks , when my paintings are dry they will go in plastic sleeves and into storage lol if they become famous someone else can spend the money on varnish when they come out of storage. I suppose I will varnish some. What about spray varnish ? Sounds easier. Thanks again. Winks Lisa
Acrylic sweats so be careful they don't stick to the bag cover in parchment paper first.. spray vanish works ok make sure you give it 2 weeks to cure before storage
Thanks for the great video. I use a layer of pouring medium on the top of my painting to give it a nice and shinny finish. Do I still need to varnish it or the pouring medium seals it enough?
Christine Hayden I will be doing a lesson soon on trees distant and close up in the mean time checkout all my videos at www.clive5art.co.uk thanks clive
Hi, me again, different video different question. Have you ever tried to use different varnishes/glazes on different areas? Say your cows in a field, background - Matt, grass - Satin and river - Gloss?
I hope you don't mind me answering Clive but I do fluid art. Yes, you can Donna but you need to remove the silicone first. A lot of people use cornflour or baby powder sprinkled onto their dried canvas and then use a cloth to gently dab it off. If you google, you'll likely get other options on how to remove it, too. If you don't remove the silicone and either brush or spray varnish, you'll have a good chance of the varnish not adherring to the areas the silicone resides. I hope I've been of some help :)
I put isolation coat on acrylic painting made of 1 part pva glue and 2 part water and it's gone milky after drying. Plz tell me how can I remove it so that my painting can look good.
Sorry there is no safe way to remove it,,, it sound like the paint had not quite dried it takes up to 2 weeks for acrylic to cure it’s not recommend to use an isolation coat until then or moisture can get trapped,,, personal I would buy a the right varnish if you wish to use it as it’s important or you could damage your paintings
@@CLIVE5ART thank you for your response I tried to clean it with soft fabric and warm water and it worked perfectly well. My painting became as good as they were before.
. Watched this because I wanted to varnish a painting that I'm giving as a gift. Not realizing that I was going to get a Sir Tom lagniappe. What a coincidence. haha
Colours do fade over time, no colour is inviolate in that sense as it is pigment and changes with ambient conditions. Acrylic as a medium has only been around for less than a century so we don't yet really know how it will stand up archivally after, say, two centuries. It seems to me that plastic is a fugitive substance, based as it is on petroleum.. Have you ever seen what happens to a plastic bag after sitting in sunlight for two years? I did it as an experiment and it ended up like sticky confetti when touched. I've seen plastic products in museum displays (such as plastic chairs from the 1960s) and they look rather dirty , faded and grotty.. At least we know what will happen to an oil painting over significant lengths of time. Hockney's acrylics from the 60s I looked at in the Tate already look rather dull and faded. Yes, they were made with early acrylic technology, but the base ingredient is still the same - acrylic polymers.
Interesting facts indeed they no produce a uv protective varnish which should stop fading but as you said not enough time had passed and we will never know I guess
As an add-on to being worked about worrying about your work... Monet said don't worry about the end result just enjoy the process of getting there!
Very true thank you
Thank you for a detailed answer sir. I've been worrying for a month now, if I should buy varnish or not... so I decided not to paint anything until I got a real answer. I was so confused. Now I guess I can paint stuff without having to varnish!
Once again, thanks! 😃❤
So glad it helped thank you
I just read some of your comment and I like the idea of using a glazing medium you suggested to another question.
love your sience of humor. could listen all day. you have interesting topics.
Anita Manning thank you so much for that it means alot if you need to see more videos pop over to www.clive5art.co.uk ally videos are there
When you varnish, do you brush it on? I've been using Windsor Newton spray -- outside -- it has a really strong smell. Do you get brush marks if you brush it on?
I didn't know that unvarnished acrylic gets a patina and that it doesn't fade. Interesting. Suggestion: If you are going to photograph your work to make prints, varnish AFTER you photograph. The varnish will put glare on the photo, as you showed us with your landscape with cows, Clive. Thanks for another great lesson.
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Carolyn Riddle I am making a full lesson on varnish in the next week so Ill answer all your questions on that good point on the photograph ill cover that also your very welcome.checkout all my videos at www.clive5art.co.uk
Answered all my questions about varnish! Thank you. No more worries😊
If I have multiple paintings on canvas board to store, what would you recommend putting between them to keep them from getting damaged or sticking together?
thank you, you make me smile at the end of the day and the info is so helpful :)
Your welcome it makes me happy to be in the studio with all of you
I've been really going back and forth with varnishing, since I work as a painter who paints live at events. Typically I do finish the last 5-10% of a painting at home since I like to make sure my clients are completely satisfied, but there are a couple times that I wouldn't have minded surrendering the painting at the end of the night. Part of me is thinking I might suggest that if they're worried about dust to frame the painting under glass. I know this typically isn't done with acrylic paintings on canvas but it's seeming like the least complicated way of dealing with this issue.
Some people do cover acrylic under glass but if on canvas or board it can sweat and stick to the glass
Thank you for your always informative videos... I like your studio - hope my own studio, which my husband is starting to build this week, will be just as nice.
I’m sure it will be have fun in your new space
"Don't worry about all these things. Just get a paintbrush and enjoy the process of painting" I wish my art teacher had said that. The first day in middle school, she did a long and winding double period of everything we needed to paint in her class. It was so confusing and the price of everything seemed too much that I nearly lost it in the store. Half of my class hated art because of that teacher. This craziness went on for about a month. For a month, none of us did anything because we just did not know anything about the materials. I was so excited to paint (before that we had only been using dry media) and this was irritating me. Strong headed as I am, I said, chuck it, what does she know about MY process? I bought a canvas, acrylic paints and just went to town with the 2 brushed I had. I never bought anything she told me to. TBH, I thought I would fail her class for not following her instructions (not one) and I got more and more worried as the year went by. But it did not make any difference in my passing the class with flying colours. Honestly, people should just stop confusing beginners.
I agree no need to make things complicated
Thanks a great help😊😊I'm just starting trying acrlylic painting but couldn't any varnish so thought I couldn't do my picture but now I see I can leave the varnish I'm going to try it.great sense of humour x
Hello Clive, I've recently just varnish my first painting and it completely ruined it. I used Geleria gloss varnish and a very soft Daler Rowney system 3 brush (bought just for varnishing) but when i applied the varnish it bubbled up and went all cloudy in many areas. The hole process has forced my confidence down a few notches but if i don't varnish my paintings then they can look really unattractive without the unified reflected properties that varnishing achieves. Do you have any advice. Kind regards, Mark
+Mark firstly the painting has to cure for a minimum of 2 weeks or the moisture in the paint will cloud the varnish
You must stir the varnish very very carefully not to create air bubbles I'll send you a link on how to varnish
To avoid the use of varnish just add glazing medium to your paints to give a lustrous look
+Mark ua-cam.com/video/hkMp7KE0900/v-deo.html
+Mark ua-cam.com/video/11T9zD5B5hQ/v-deo.html
CLIVE5ART
Thank you very much Clive :-)
Very informative. I have viewed video via my husbands ipad. Thanks Clive.
Thank you for your support
Thanks , when my paintings are dry they will go in plastic sleeves and into storage lol if they become famous someone else can spend the money on varnish when they come out of storage.
I suppose I will varnish some.
What about spray varnish ? Sounds easier.
Thanks again.
Winks
Lisa
Acrylic sweats so be careful they don't stick to the bag cover in parchment paper first.. spray vanish works ok make sure you give it 2 weeks to cure before storage
Thanks for the great video. I use a layer of pouring medium on the top of my painting to give it a nice and shinny finish. Do I still need to varnish it or the pouring medium seals it enough?
I'm not sure you better going into the Facebook group and ask dawn she will know
Clive
+CLIVE5ART Thanks for the response. I went to the Facebook but couldn't find Dawn. Can you please send me a link to hers?
Clive is the best.
Is spray varnish good?
Hi Clive , painting trees that are in the distant background , how do you get them to look like trees and not blobs. Regards Christine
Christine Hayden I will be doing a lesson soon on trees distant and close up in the mean time checkout all my videos at www.clive5art.co.uk thanks clive
Clive I Hurd you say to dawn yesterday in paint along and chat that you were going to do clouds again please do as I still have problems
TheHodsocks the live show is on the 30th april plus.google.com/u/0/events/cgo325n1v1e2no18ebpkn66oa4c
Hi, me again, different video different question. Have you ever tried to use different varnishes/glazes on different areas? Say your cows in a field, background - Matt, grass - Satin and river - Gloss?
Oh yes it's best with glazing medium varnish well it could work try it see what you think
Clive
Hello, Clive. I been pouring paints with silicone. Can I varnish these types of paintings?
I'm not 💯 % sure try a test first
I hope you don't mind me answering Clive but I do fluid art. Yes, you can Donna but you need to remove the silicone first. A lot of people use cornflour or baby powder sprinkled onto their dried canvas and then use a cloth to gently dab it off. If you google, you'll likely get other options on how to remove it, too.
If you don't remove the silicone and either brush or spray varnish, you'll have a good chance of the varnish not adherring to the areas the silicone resides. I hope I've been of some help :)
I put isolation coat on acrylic painting made of 1 part pva glue and 2 part water and it's gone milky after drying.
Plz tell me how can I remove it so that my painting can look good.
Sorry there is no safe way to remove it,,, it sound like the paint had not quite dried it takes up to 2 weeks for acrylic to cure it’s not recommend to use an isolation coat until then or moisture can get trapped,,, personal I would buy a the right varnish if you wish to use it as it’s important or you could damage your paintings
@@CLIVE5ART thank you for your response I tried to clean it with soft fabric and warm water and it worked perfectly well. My painting became as good as they were before.
Subscribed from Philippones😊.. Thanks for tips
Thank you so much
I’m finally making a decision to varnish an older painting, but I don’t want to destroy it.
It should be ok
. Watched this because I wanted to varnish a painting that I'm giving as a gift. Not realizing that I was going to get a Sir Tom lagniappe. What a coincidence. haha
It's not unusual YEA
Colours do fade over time, no colour is inviolate in that sense as it is pigment and changes with ambient conditions. Acrylic as a medium has only been around for less than a century so we don't yet really know how it will stand up archivally after, say, two centuries. It seems to me that plastic is a fugitive substance, based as it is on petroleum.. Have you ever seen what happens to a plastic bag after sitting in sunlight for two years? I did it as an experiment and it ended up like sticky confetti when touched. I've seen plastic products in museum displays (such as plastic chairs from the 1960s) and they look rather dirty , faded and grotty.. At least we know what will happen to an oil painting over significant lengths of time. Hockney's acrylics from the 60s I looked at in the Tate already look rather dull and faded. Yes, they were made with early acrylic technology, but the base ingredient is still the same - acrylic polymers.
Interesting facts indeed they no produce a uv protective varnish which should stop fading but as you said not enough time had passed and we will never know I guess
Can I spray varnish on acrilic?
Yes oil or water based but always test first to ensure
You really don't know why acrylic paint needs a varnish and why it should be removable. It is true most people don't need to worry.
Acrylic is self sealing so it’s more about protection same is true for oils it’s down to choice I guess
A lot of chat..........phew.
😂😂 next time I'll mime
This sounds like a comedy performance, rather than a serious tutorial.
Thank you I'm happy where I can