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Enjoy the play, wether you want to add loads of texture or dramatically mattify the sheen, build deep, semi-transparent, encaustic like layers, or glaze to your heart's content with no Cold Wax at all. Then, once everything is dry and you have that deeply satisfied feeling that creating your work brings, please turn your attention to time.
An unvarnished painting is playing a game of cat and mouse with the elements. Leaving it exposed means risking the fading effects of UV radiation, dust, fluctuations in humidity, not to mention the occasional targeted flinging of tomato soup. Your work deserves any protection you can give it, but applying a varnish can feel like a terrifying pursuit that many artists avoid altogether. Enter our friend, the Jack of all trades, Cold Wax Medium. Use it in the painting and then again as a stand alone matte varnish. No joke. And this applies to other types of artwork as well.
Recent YouTube wanderings peeled the wool from my eyes as I watched a genius watercolor artist apply Cold Wax Medium as a varnish to dry a painting she had done on paper! She used a clean, bare finger and applied the wax directly to the painting using gentle circular motions. This artist discovered the ultimate workaround for the emotional pain of having to put beautiful water color paintings behind glass. No more!
In an art supply market bursting with painting mediums, Gamblin's Cold Wax Medium offers a myriad of uses in one minimalist package. Treat yourself and your priceless creations to a bit of its simple magic.
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