I have yet another question about the law and art. A friend of mine wishes to do mural painting in very elaborate and well-to-do homes. In requesting this, the company who constructed these elabo...
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Is there any reason why using an MDF panel well-coated with strong rabbitskin glue, without gesso, would lead to problems, cracking, etc?...
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The famous portrait by Vermeer has been cleaned.
The Danish conservator that carried out the removal of the old varnish told a curious thing about it.
He was surprised to discover that the old...
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I'm not certain this is posted in the correct place, but I am in the middle of this painting and I have a huge problem. The canvas was bumped off of the easel, fell, and caught the corn...
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A frame store sent a lady over today who has just moved to our city. In transit, a portrait of her father was injured.
This is a photograph circa 1900, that has been colorized with pastels. It eve...
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A friend of mine has asked if I might be able to repair a painting she owns that was recently damaged. It's a portrait of her grandmother when she was young and it apparently has a big scuff mark acro...
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I acquired two oil portraits in a local auction. They are over 60 years old & covered in a film of dust & dirt. What is my best cleaning method?
They are on stretchers but not framed.
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At an auction recently there was a beautiful street scene by a listed Russian artist. From the distance I was at (approx 50 ft.) I could see huge cracks in the paint. Because the piece sold for a few...
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I saw the Sistene Chapel after they cleaned the ceiling. I wanted to cry....I think that they removed a lot of the "atmosphere" and important parts of the painting that were meant to be ther...
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If you're not looking to actually strip layers from the surface of a painting, but just clean up an old painting that has collected dust or soot or bad karma, or prepare a recently-dried painting for ...
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I doubt that anyone here paints on silk, but I thought this section at the Smithsonian's site on how they cleaned silk paintings for an exhibition might prove interesting:
http://www.asia.si.edu/e...
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Hi all,
This is a great forum! Portraiture can sometimes be a lonely profession/hobby but a forum like this makes one feel not alone in the painting struggle! My question is about cleaning old (19...
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