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  1. Thank you for this really informative and enjoyable article. Always reassuring to hear about all this work that goes into your products.

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    • Hello Hugh, the Waterborne Varnish is shipping currently to US stores as well as online retailers. It should become available within days if not weeks depending upon the retailer. It will also begin shipping to Canada by April 10th and European markets after that by the end of April, arriving in stores for artists in May and June (may vary by country).

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      • Hi Scott, many thanks for the article regarding the Waterborne gloss varnish, I Iook forward to its availability here in UK. Also the information on Isolation coat application as I always apply this to my acrylic paintings. Regards David

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        • Our pleasure David, Waterborne Varnish should be making its way towards the UK we hope by May or June! We are glad the information on the Isolation Coat was helpful! Thanks for reaching out, we appreciate it.

          Best,
          Scott

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  2. Hi Scott,

    I know of an ET artist who liked GOLDEN’s Polymer Varnish as a finish for his egg tempera paintings – I tried it once myself, as a test & it seemed to work well. Any thoughts on the compatibility of the new product with egg tempera?

    Thanks as always for the work you and GOLDEN do.

    Koo

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    • Hello Koo!

      Nice to hear from you! We have not tested Waterborne Varnish on egg tempera, but we will give it a shot and see how it goes. The Waterborne Varnish performs similarly to Polymer Varnish, but there are some differences so for those interested, definitely test first. If we have good results we will let you know!

      Scott

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  3. Hi Scott
    Glad to hear about this product. Can this be used over Qor watercolor with an isolation coat or no isolation coat? I don’t like using spray varnish. If I could cover it with a brush that would be great.
    Thank you
    Pearl

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    • Hello Pearl,
      We wouldn’t recommend the Waterborne Varnish be brushed directly over a watercolor. The varnish contains water, so it could lift color or cause the watercolor to move if applied on top. Same with brushing on an the Isolation Coat over watercolor. The Waterborne Varnish can certainly be applied over the Isolation Coat, generally, as standard for our recommendations though. We would recommend testing if you were interested in trying this out on a watercolor. While not the application you are looking for, the best option for varnishing a watercolor is to use our spray Archival Varnish since it is solvent-based not water-based and it goes on light without mechanically brushing on the surface. Let us know if you have questions. [email protected]

      Best,
      Scott

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  4. Good Day/Evening.

    I would like to know if your GAC100 can also be mixed in small quantities with your QoR watercolor range and/or with gouache for the purpose of making semi-water resistant compositions in order to ensure that the painting would not be damaged in case of unintentional wetting (e.g. water spillage, high ambient humidity, etc), yet still reworkable in case one wants to make changes and/or corrections on the previous work (in addition to ensuring that no cracks would develop)?

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    • Hello Clarence,
      Thank you for your question. We encourage you to test! We consider mixing of an opaque or transparent watercolor and an acrylic medium to be experimental, and have not done serious testing. In addition, if there is enough acrylic in the mixture that the hybrid paint does not rewet when spilled water sits on the surface, then the paint will probably not granulate like transparent water, or be removable in the way that watercolor and gouache can be. It is possible that adding a high enough ratio of acrylic to gouache will increase flexibility enough to reduce the potential for cracking, but we have not tested enough to recommend a ratio. Should you decide to experiment, we wish you great success.
      Happy painting, Cathy

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