Find out why Peter Keegan says a bottle of Retouching Varnish is 'the perfect gift for oil painters'.
Winsor & Newton Artists’ Retouching Varnish is an ideal and practical gift any oil painter will truly appreciate. This enhancing varnish serves a dual purpose in the painting process: it revives the brilliance of colours that have temporarily dulled during drying, and it offers light protection for the paint surface.
What Winsor & Newton Artists’ Retouching Varnish Does for an Oil Painting
- Restores colour brilliance: As oil paintings dry, the colours can lose some vibrancy, especially if areas dry unevenly. The varnish creates a consistent finish that revives the saturation and depth of the colours. It restores the painting’s vibrancy, making the piece look fresh again.
- Creates an even sheen: Oil paint can dry with an uneven sheen, sometimes glossy in some areas and matte in others. The retouching varnish evens out the surface, giving it a uniform appearance, making it easier for painters to assess their work during the drying stages.
Reasons to choose W&N Retouching Varnish
I use Winsor & Newton Artists’ Retouching Varnish as it’s a trusted professional artistic product. Winsor & Newton is a highly respected name in the art world and known for their reliability and quality, making them a go-to choice for both professional and amateur artists.
Top tips for using Artists' Retouching Varnish
Alongside the traditional varnishing purposes, I also use it to sometimes re-work an area of my painting. If you wish to rework a small area of a dry painting, adding a little retouching varnish to this area offers a wet surface to work on, allowing my newly applied brushstrokes the ability to slide effortlessly across the painting surface, as if I’m working on a fully wet oil painting.
Whilst it’s traditional to apply a varnish on an oil painting when it’s over six month and fully dried or cured, Winsor & Newton Artists’ Retouching Varnish allows you the ability to varnish a painting earlier and still allow it to naturally dry whilst giving you that uniformed glossy varnished finish.
Christmas Visitor, oil on canvas paper, (20x18cm)
Winsor & Newton Artists’ Retouching Varnish is more than just a finishing touch—it’s a vital part of their artistic process. It rejuvenates colours and provides protection in its early life. Offering this varnish as a gift shows a deep understanding of an artist’s needs, making it the perfect addition to any painter’s studio.
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About Peter Keegan
Peter is a professional artist living and working in Buckinghamshire, UK, specialising in portraiture. Trained at Cardiff School of Art and working in oils, Peter follows traditional techniques but uses them in a way to depict the people he meets in a modern and original style. His aim in portraiture is to always create a painting or drawing that reflects the subject's likeness and personality, as well as capturing those special elements which make the subject truly "them". Peter also paints and exhibits figure paintings, local landscape and still life paintings and writes for The Artist.
Find out more on Peter's website, www.peterkeegan.com.