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I think the isolation coat is if the varnish yellows so needs to be removed. I varnish paintings to help protect them. Easy to wipe off dust etc.

The Smithsonian currently recommends that you NOT varnish your paintings. I think that is good enough for me. Most modern good quality or better paints will hold up really well over time. I have dug out old paintings I did with student grade acrylics I did as a kid and are over 40 years old and they have not changed. Now if it will sit near a sunny window then yeah maybe.

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So correct about all the differing views on isolation coats and varnishing. My conclusion is... it's just personal preference based on their experience.

You don't need the insolation coat, that's why they are always coming up with ways to clean paintings. As we know a companies job it to create new products even if they aren't needed. Just say they are so people will buy them. If my paintings are around that long. By the time it needs to be removed they'll know how to remove it. I like using a high gloss varnish just because I like it. It also helps protect it if someone uses use a damp "lint free cloth" to wipe the dust off of it. Other than that it is up to you, varnish or no varnish. I say yes you should varnish for the reason I do, people may try cleaning it and damage the painting, if the varnish is on it, it will help protect the painting. I don't know about you all reading this, but I'd like my paintings to be around long after I'm gone. At my age my paintings will be around longer than I'm 😉

You say you don't use an isolation coat but what varnish are you using, removable or non-removable? I varnish my acrylic on canvas paintings but I do far more painting on paper with acrylic ink, airbrush paint (applied with a brush), fluid acrylics and acrylic gouache. These are usually halfway between a drawing and a full painting and I never varnish these, they go in a frame behind glass. When I do varnish I always put on 3-4 coats of acrylic gloss medium thinned 2:1 medium to water as an isolation layer. This is where the brushstrokes can show up, in my experience. I apply it with a foam brush. The water thins down the gloopiness so much that any bubbles have disappeared long before it dries. Then I wait a week and paff on a couple of coats of matt spray varnish. When this is done you can barely see anything has been done to the picture, which is the way I want it. I only varnish for protection. The way I see it, a varnish on acrylic is like the glass in front of a watercolour. It needs to be removable in case food, drink, paint, chemicals or other crap get on it , that's the whole point of it being there. I don't know if a painting is going to be loved 500 years from now but maybe it will be. I can't see the point of not protecting a picture when it's so easy to do.

The timing of this video is so on point. I bought myself my first Acrylics set for Christmas. Thanks K.. Happy new year x

Thank you. This helped. God bless

Loved this video. Great job

Thank you for sharing these tips. I was intimidated by all the brush application precautions so I just opted for a spray varnish. But now I want to reuse that surface and paint over it. Have you painted over varnished acrylic? Any recommendations? I’m thinking of just sanding and applying gesso.

Does the varnish stays sticky for ever? I have a small handmade business, I tried to make a wooden coasters, paint on them with acrylic and varnish them to be functional, the problem is that the varnish seems like it's dry, but when I put the hot cup on it the cup picks up the coaster, and if there are some drops of liquid it sticks even more, I am very frustrated, what can I do?

Thank you

Hi! Great videos on how to varnish! I am new to it and I have a question maybe you can help with. Why does the varnish make the dry paint reactivate and start to bleed? Thank you for you videos!

Thanks for ur help ❤

Do you sell originals without varnish?

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what happened to your OG vids from like 10 years ago

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Who is telling LIES about vanishing acrylic paintings?...... And who cares?

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