Hi, it's me Joyce. I'm going to be showing you how to varnish today and you're only going to see my hands, okay? Too much trouble getting it back into focus. Okay, so you're going to take your painting, your finished painting, you're going to sign it first. You want to sign it and then you're going to find a surface that you could spray on and usually I'll just get like a drop cloth of some sort. Then you're going to find something like this. You know, it's, I call it a riser and these are just little containers that are throw away and then you're going to slide it under under your piece like so and you want to hide it all the way underneath, okay? I already have sliders underneath there so imagine it hiding right here. Okay, so you want to hide it so it's it's hitting right about here, not right off, not overlapping because you don't want the varnish to hit it. Okay, so then you're going to get, I'm going to send you a hand out and show you the products that I've used. I've used golden's archival varnish. You want to start with a gloss. Always start with a gloss. The gloss creates a wonderful clear clear beginnings. So you can always take it to another, if you want satin or matte, they have those two. So you start with the spray and we're going to end with this varnish here which is a, it's a polymyrothane varnish. Okay, and here we go. Now with the spray, I got this really cool little handle thing. See that little handle? Awesome, right? It's from, it's from Home Depot. And you're going to, you just clamp it on, make sure your nozzle, you see the spray so it doesn't hit any sides of that. And then we begin, okay? And just like so. And you're going to be about nine inches away. I'm going to be about nine inches away and just give an even pass going in both directions. Okay, even pass, even pass. Easy breezy, just like that. Now what's going to, what you're going to see have happened with your pigments is that, and don't forget the sides. We want to remember the sides. The varnish, the first couple coats of varnish, you're going to see a difference how the pigment accepts the varnish. No worries because you eventually it all evens out. Okay? Okay, so for the sake of this video, I am going to bring in the stunt double. Here it comes. And stunt double is right here. It has been sprayed and it has dried. Okay, so once you've sprayed, you want to make sure that it's nice and dry, nice dry surface. Now in between layers, I always suggest to use a tack cloth. Like, white, white, white, white, white, white, and there you have it. Okay, now traditionally the way most, you know, varnish is like the port and you can port it into a container. Okay, you can port in there and it says to put one to four, one part, water for parts, varnish, mix. But then you have to mix it slowly so there's no bubbles. I suggest for my, my canvases to use it as is and not dilute it. You know, maybe, maybe there's some day I'll figure out why one to four is a great thing and why just using it directly. I suspect that it's because there's more water and it's heavier. It just makes it a little bit heavier onto your canvas. So I just like using it straight. Now you can port into a container such as this and you can take your sponge brush and then apply it. Okay, I suggest another way. I suggest you get a sponge. Oh, okay, that's also I didn't talk about. I use these sponge brushes. It has a nice little wedge to it. So it, and I don't even press that hard. I just lay it, lay my varnish down and I gently light it along until it's evenly distributed. Okay, and here we go. Okay, so there we go. It's coming. You know, I poured it on and now I'm giving it to even distribution. Why do I do it this way? Because if I start at the top and start painting on the varnish by the time I get to the bottom, the top is dry. What I like to do and on this first pass is actually distribute it. And then once it's all distributed, you go in one direction, then you go in another direction. Okay, and don't forget about the sides. Okay, this is a smaller painting and I believe it's 12 by 16. So it's, you know, it's easy to do this coverage. But if you're painting a larger painting, it takes a little longer. So I'm happy that it's smaller. Okay, here we go. One, two, three. And then all the way around, all the way around, all the way around. Okay, so don't forget. One direction, one, two, starting to dry on me, three. Okay, and then you can go another direction. Okay, so that's it for varnishing and you'll probably wonder how many layers your painting will dictate how many layers. Your own, you know, whatever you like. If you want it, I like giving it at least six to seven layers. But you have to let it dry, thoroughly dry. Okay, so that's it for now. Good luck. And I will be sending you more information about this. The handouts and also I'm going to send another handout showing you how I frame my pieces. Okay, so that's it. Good luck and I'll talk to you later.