Can you paint over re-touch varnish on an oil painting?

Also, can you put regular varnish over re-touch varnish?


Finally, why does it say on the bottle of my winsor-newton bottle of re-touch varnish that it's only for ';temporary';?


Ugh...I wish I had kept my notes from college...Can you paint over re-touch varnish on an oil painting?
Yes, you can varnish over re-touch. I have never had a problem as long as you keep the layers of varnish fairly thin. Too much will look too goopy and glossy.





Retouch varnish is meant to be a temporary varnish, just to get the dried paint colors to look as if they were wet so you can do touch ups with some accuracy. ';Regular'; varnish is permanent, to be applied when your painting is done.Can you paint over re-touch varnish on an oil painting?
You want to match materials. Do you know how old the painting is? Older varnishes yellow with age, so touching up with a non-fading varnish will make a glaring stripe over time. Try asking the Metropolitan Museum's contact page, they have world class restorers.