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Varnish is a transparent, hard, protective finish or film primarily used in wood finishing but also for other materials. Varnish is traditionally a combination of a drying oil, a resin, and a thinner or solvent.

Varnishing
As a final step, negatives and prints are often coated with a shellac- or resin-based liquid that provides a smooth appearance and an extra layer to protect against scratches or other injury.

Varnish
A clear shiny ink used to add gloss to printed pieces. The primary component of the ink vehicle. Reference; vehicle.
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varnish - A protective transparent finish applied in a liquid state to a surface. One example is glair — a varnish for tempera paint. Many are available with a matte, semi-gloss, or glossy finish.
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Varnish. Resinous transparent substance applied by painters to their works in order to preserve them - as distinct from glazing.

Varnish
A solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid. When applied to a surface, it dries transparent, hard and glossy, protecting the surface from air and moisture.

VARNISH
Generally, a more or less transparent film-forming liquid that dries into a solid film. Return to top
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Matte Varnish
Gamblin Cold Wax Medium can also be used as a traditional matte varnish. Apply a thin layer of Cold Wax Medium on to the painting. With a circular motion, apply the Cold Wax paste with a lint free cloth.

Varnish is a solution of a colorless resin (dammar) in a colorless solvent (turpentine). For the most part, egg-tempera paintings appear not to have been varnished.

VARNISH:
Transparent material that protects the paint (can make it shiny as well).
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A thin varnish, natural or synthetic, that is sprayed over charcoal, pastel and other drawings to protect them from smearing, rubbing, or falling off the paper. All or some will alter the original colours slightly.
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Laquer
A varnish consisting of a solution of shella in alcohol, often used for varnishing metals ...

Oriental varnish obtained from the sap of the lacquer tree. Gave a high-gloss finish to furniture in Europe in the 17th century. Mother-of-pearl, coral, and metals were often inlaid in the lacquer to create a decorative effect.
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Fixative: Varnish applied to (today sprayed on) artworks to prevent smudging; usually to charcoal or pastel drawings.

glair - A varnish for tempera paints. Traditional tempera, or egg tempera, is prepared from fresh egg yolks — the contents of yolks (removed from their sacs) mixed with powdered pigment.

bloom - clouding of a varnished surface caused by entrapment or penetration of water vapor
boneless - color applied in light washes without a drawn outline or structure * ...

Relatively stable, it could be combined with all other pigments and its lightfastness in oil paintings was enhanced when isolated between layers of varnish.
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varying in hue from an almost colourless transparent mass to a bright yellowish-brown, having a conchoidal fracture, and, when dissolved in alcohol, spirit of turpentine, or any other suitable menstruum, forming one of the most valuable varnishes.

Often an oil, such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense, these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body and gloss. Other oils occasionally used include poppyseed oil, walnut oil, and safflower oil.

A metal plate is sprinkled with acid-resistant varnish, which is fused to the plate by heating, and when the plate is immersed in an acid bath the acid bites between the tiny particles of resin and produces an evenly granulated surface.

The ground is not discernible through the discolored varnish and thick paint layers, but is probably white. The painting is richly executed in a complex of different layers and techniques.

The artist draws on the surface of a copper or zinc plate, which is coated with an acid-resistant varnish, or "ground" using a sharp tool (burin), scribing into the ground and removing the varnish where the lines will appear.

Many of the exhibited paintings began the same way; the act of defining a particular scene was postponed until the varnishing days when the paintings were already hanging, and then performed with astounding brilliance.

The term vernissage, in current usage, has almost nothing to do with "varnish," but everything to do with "the day before." Vernissage now refers to the private, pre-public, "invitation only" opening of a show.

The artist prepares a tightly stretched screen, usually of silk, and blocks out areas not to be printed by filling the mesh on the screen with a varnish-link substance.

During restoration in the 1980s, successive layers of varnish, which had form an even grey veil over the painting, were removed.

The technique of decorating surfaces with paper cutouts, and then coating them with varnish. The term is also used to refer to the work produced by this technique.

1863 [[Max Pettenkofer of Munich patented a method to 'reverse the aging of varnish' through exposure to ethanol vapors; this method was later found to increase the interactive zone between paintings and varnish, complicating future cleanings [Ref.

An oil painting that has been improperly varnished or stored may develop a 'bloom' or film on the surface.

A small air-gun capable of spraying paint, ink, varnish, or ground in a stream of fine droplets. It can be used in lithography and aquatint, for the application of a flat tint, and on drawings which are to be photographed with the half-tone technique ...

A vessel of two or more layers of cased glass has a design drawn onto it which is then covered with a layer of protective varnish.

Fixative: a liquid, similar to varnish, which is usually sprayed over a finished piece of artwork to better preserve it and prevent smudging. Artwork media requiring fixative include drawings done in pencil, charcoal, and pastel.

The artist draws, using a sharp tool referred to as a burin, on the surface of a copper or zinc plate. Each plate is coated with an acid-resistant varnish, or "ground".

Fixatif: (also spelt "fixative" ) A thin varnish of watery consistency, used to keep drawings from smudging.
Flat: A brush with long-haired bristles.
Flat Color: An even or uniform area of color.

Shellac:-A yellow resin formed from secretions of the LAC insect, used in making varnish. Return to top
Sidewalk Art: -A developing art form usually done with chalk. The work is finished on the sidewalk. Akin to Street art and graffiti. Return to top ...

A hard resin used in producing varnishes and painting mediums.
Co-polymers
Polymers in which the molecules are of more than one type of structural unit.

This effect on oil paintings is usually caused by one of three reasons: excessive use of linseed oil medium; applying any of the varnishes that are prone to yellow with age; or most often - an accumulation of dirt embedded into the varnish.

The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, ...

The paint is made by mixing beeswax with pigment and a resin such as damar varnish. These are mixed while being heated on some sort of hot plate to about 150°-200° F. The paint is then allowed to cool into paint sticks.

The extent of the printed areas can be controlled by varnishing those parts of the plate to appear white in the final design.

The parts that are to appear completely white are stopped out with varnish. The plate is immersed in an acid bath, and the microscopic holes in the untreated areas allow the acid to bite into the copper. An aquatint can often resemble a wash drawing ...

Decoupage - the Victorian craft of cutting out motifs from paper gluing them to a surface and covering with as many layers of varnish as is required to give a completely smooth finish.

See also: Painting, Composition, Plate, Sculpture, Size