Never use high gloss varnish to finish your art!

So when you are selling your painting and you don't know if the customer will have a painting in the sun or not or in a room with bright light, which type of varnish do you choose?

What resisn is good for a canvas?

I use Krylon archival UV glossy spray on canvas photographic prints with good results. Two coats if you want minimal loss and three coats for a very light and slightly noticeable gloss. Really don't feel the need to go beyond three coats.

The demonstration was really helpful bro. Thank alot

Thank you so much for this video. I love matte! Perfect. 😄

thanks the gloss is perfect it and the matt makes the paint colors pop out the best

Why does my varnish flakes on canvas😕

Super helpful, didn't realize until now that MATTE is glossier than SATIN which is good to know!

Amazing... I have been crazily searching for this info but none of the video exact info like you.. Saved it and I am a new subscriber 😊

These acrylic varnishes aren't suitable for oil paintings right?

So, the matte...isnt.

What about using gloss polyurethane spray paint?

I deeply appreciate this! I just finished a huge landscape painting, my first painting since art college years ago. I decided to go all the way and varnish, but couldn't determine which sheen to go with.

Thanks for sharing this! 💯❣️

I don’t paint with acrylics. I’ve had issues with Matt and Satin varnishes on oil. They can be difficult to get right because of sometimes a cloudiness can be seen. I use Windsor Damar Varnish but, have recently been using Gamvar which is faster, easier and, seems to work well with the more modern mediums like Liquin and Neo-Meglip. These mediums set faster than linseed oil and work well for me when I am painting in a more contemporary style and don’t need the paint to stay open so long.

How did you apply the varnish it looks so smooth

Thank you very much for this video

Nonsense

David, I'm pouring on an 18" wood circle to use as a tabletop out doors. What should I use for a top coat (or top coats). We're in Massachusetts, but we bring the porch furniture in for the winter.

Thanks for helping me with this. 💜 Mo

Why do you use a cloth?

Very detailed. Thanks 🤙

How does it feel to the touch once dry? Sometimes I feel acrylic varnish has a plasticky, almost dry tacky feel. I'm hoping to try this varnish but need it to feel touch and solid when dry.

Thank you for this! You saved the day on a 30x40 painting I had sprayed with polycrylic satin and it dried a bit milky, completely dulling the beautiful color. I had tried using the varnish with a brush on another painting and had terrible brush strokes. I used this technique on both paintings and they are perfect! Adding the water to the varnish makes all the difference as well as applying with a cloth. Thank you, LBA! You rock!

thanks

Which varnish would you recommend to paintings with metallic details, gloss, satin, matte or high gloss?

Excellent presentation and concise information. Thank you !

Can i used copal varnish for my acrylic painting

This is great thanks

Can you put glossy varnish on top of matte???🙏Someone please help because I’ve already done a coat with matte varnish and I don’t like it.. it’s also a bit streaky so I’m hoping that the next coat will fix it if I buy a foam brush

Nice video... but we really have to start expanding our vocubulary. That word "pop" drives me nuts, like finger nails on a chalk board. Hearing it for the first time on some goofy HGTV series some years ago I knew it was a matter of a week or less before it would become the go-to word for people. Just like "happy accident" did before that. But really, all those words and phrases have had their day of coolness but they've since moved into the realm of tired references. Oh, and let's not forget that other goofy phrase... "game changer". Artists tend to be more specific in their terminology when discussing their work, so this current need to use pop-culture references is odd,. But, still it's a nice video. It was the only thing I came across that gave me exactly what I needed which was an observable comparison between liquitex's various acryclic varnishes. I'm always a bit surprisesed that these companies don't do something like this themselves. So thank you. Nice work!

HI David, Good video and all the other videos that you have here it helps me a lot. I just started pouring and I was wondering do u have a video or can you make one if possible how to use resin to varnish the painting thanks ...

Thank you so much!

That's so strange that their matte is glossier than their satin! Thanks so much for the very clear info. And omg your shirt cracked me up! haha!

Good video!👍

Satin, by definition, indicates something that has an level of gloss that is intermediate between gloos and matte.

Matte is not shinier than satin. Ever. This is a mistake.

That matte varnish is terrible and not matte at all.

Why use a 50/50 mix with your varnish?

finally good video about varnish difference ...👍

hello i 'm really sensitive to varnish smell i just bought a liquitex satin but it says it has a chemical that can cause cancer is there any other options to protect a canvas that is safer or safer varnish?

What varnish be used to statues like Peacock King from Hades studio ? I must repaint IT and dont have any info from Hades. Thanks you for help If you find time for IT .

One of the best oil painters of this century that I study is Mark Carder who has done many paintings that hang in the White House. His suggestion is Gloss and I agree. Four coats is waaaaaay too many. I use Gamvar - one coat if possible, no more than two. Your goal is to protect the painting while at the same time, throw the "football" to the art restoration specialist many centuries in the future who will at some time want to remove your old, brittle, yellowed varnish and put on a new coat. The more coats, the more chance that restoration artist will have to use a lot of solvent, possibly damaging your painting. Matte won't make the colors pop. And exterior light on most paintings make Satin also irrelevant. Gloss works and looks good in most lighting situations.

Have you ever tried applying varnish using an airbrush? I'm curious as to whether it would reduce the graininess. I've applied Pledge Floor Wax using an airbrush to acrylic painted gaming miniatures and it works great.

Hi, for my black and white acrylic portrait painting, which varnish would be good?

I use liquitex high gloss (3 coats), then on my last coat do a light spray of satin aerosol. I love the way it turns out. Different strokes for different people.

Thanks for that 👍

Satin looks like a conservative choice but I've heard of and seen examples where there are streaks / visible brushstrokes after it's been applied, is that true?

Sooo helpful! Thank you 👍

One other benefit from the varnish with metallic paints it is brings out the sparkle again. If you notice on this painting the no-varnish sections don't have any sparkle at all.