What Happens If You Varnish Oil Paintings Too Early? Real Life Experiment

An oil painting needs to dry for 6-12 months before you can safely varnish it without negatively impacting your painting, but what happens if you varnish it too soon? Well we are about to find out! I am doing this experiment for the next year where I will be varnishing parts of a test painting at different points in time. We will be able to see what really happens when you varnish too early vs waiting the full 6-12 months. Note that I simply painted a canvas with oils and will then varnish it. I am not doing anything to increase the drying time of the painting. I am using Daler & Rowney Georgian oil paints and Windsor & Newton high gloss dammar varnish in this demonstration.
Results are in! See video here:
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