Fine Art Conservation - The Cleaning Process
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2018
- Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago documents the process of removing a discolored natural resin varnish from a portrait of twin sisters.
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While not meant as an instructional video, Julian discusses some of the approaches to cleaning paintings, why that's necessary, and how one might understand the delicacies and potential issues with such a procedure.
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“Those are all interesting opinions, but they are all inaccurate” me in a group chat
crazyreader21 that was my favorite moment. This guy knows how to utterly roast these guys and he knows it but he’s respectful still
But you can tell he knows this fact
I loved the little pause before interesting. one of the most sophisticated ways of throwing shade lmao
4:07
Sounds like something drumf would say!
For sure hahahaha
If only a cotton swab could remove the dark circles under my eyes like it did for the subjects of this painting...
BRUH same :(
It is what it is, some things you just have to retouch (using reversible materials).
It can.... just needs help from make-up
Oh god yess
😞🖐
"Those are all interesting opinions but they're all inaccurate."
These moments where he lowkey roasts others in his field are my absolute favorite parts of these videos.
I think he’s arrogant and cocky but he’s still talented
@@shiny5068 I'd call it 'confident" and it's confidence justly born from talent and experience. It's still hilarious.
@@telamindel Who art these people? What are their names? Where do they work?
telamindel spill the beans
telamindel I’ve tried to find literally any evidence of this and can’t.
I love how he says ‘this painting arrived in my studio’ like it just appeared on one of his shelves and he was like ‘welp. I guess I have to conserve it’
It might have. It looks haunted.
He is a magician, so it probably did.
You had to remind me of the pink baby 😖
He lives in the three-quarter sphere shelf Uzav-Kugra, facing the lobby of the sleeping peoples of the solar system, because there is a planet there he highly suspects he came from. "Earth" it is called. The humans who live there never stop painting. Their paintings carry so many different meanings, love, memory, and a fight against mortality - a fear he can barely remember.
Their paintings are only slightly less temporary than their lives! A well-kept painting six hundred years old sometimes feels as rare as a sunflower grown six meters high. But he does what he can. At first he asked the sauntings of the ivory fleet to capture max-resolution matterfields of the threatened paintings of the earth humans. The results of those scans appeared in his cargo room each morning, atom-for-atom recreations made to meet his immense need for authenticity as well as a copy ever can, for he is no liar and no thief.
He works as he lives, carefully, gently, thoughtfully, patiently. And when he is finished, the original is replaced with an atom-for-atom copy of his restored version. Sometimes he restores forgotten paintings with no one to care for them. also, paintings left to crumble in attics by careless owners he will sometimes repair without consent, in the hopes that their children will one day appreciate that painting. But thankless work was not enough for him, and he also wanted to repair loved paintings, and positively impact lives of their admirers with his literally superhuman skills. So he created a company to form customer relationships to this end. It's called Baumgartner Restorations, founded and operated by a convincing android avatar that set him back a few billion credits - a small price for his cause.
It was only 2011 when he upgraded the android's control unit to a Q-band neural integrator, and began his life among humans through it. Now he works on paintings in person, and can touch the same material that was painted hundreds of years ago. Even though the infallible scans were never a threat to anyone's enjoyment of the paintings, and no difference could be seen or felt or even tasted, he now prefers for the original to live on in its purest form, and works to this end, never creating matterfield copies while working anymore. He doesn't even rely on backup matterfields to let himself work with less fear of mistakes. He is truthful, even when he could lie without the faintest chance of being detected. That's how many spectators from beyond that star system came to an odd agreement - to call an ancient inhuman mind in a mechanical body "the most honest human."
@@justbg I was just thinking this painting would be a perfect prop in a horror movie.
Wow, removing the old varnish just shows the incredible detail the artist did at the time. To believe other art people think old varnish shouldn't be removed is crazy as they're missing out on seeing how amazing these painting should look
This comment speaks to me lol. I do custom framing and there are people who insist on having old style glare resistant glass which is almost like a lightly frosted glass which obviously obscures details. Even when they see the new style glare resistant glass which is even more clear than typical glass they’re like nahhh. Why?? Don’t you want to see your art??
... they can't be like the original ones, they aren't going to look like before just for a simple reason. The paint ,as the barnish, is old. The end.
@@teresamaqui1200 Yes I know that but what the artist would have envisioned when they were painting it, not a miscoloured version like they look when the varnishes ages
Exactly! Agree 100%
They're probably placing value on the age of an object, and want people to know how old their artwork or antiques are.
When he finished cleaning the first girl, and u can see the huge difference of color between them, that’s so satisfying
@One Blue Boi both girls on the painting are the same race lol I hope this was a joke
Um one had a dirty face and one didn’t what’s racist about that lol
Right! I am so glad he takes the old varnish off, I feel like he is honoring the artist so much by exposing what he/she wanted the painting to be. It's just incredible. He takes such care I really like this guy.
@One Blue Boi stop smoking crack before you comment on TH-cam homie
The fact that people say "DoNt ReMoVe ThE vARnIsH" just kills me. Why do I want a green painting? I wouldve never seen the pink in her cheeks or the softness of her hair. She looks sad in the varnish, but without it she looks much cuter and innocent. Good job to the artist. The is absolutely brilliant.
@@gavinthegreat2 yes! Correct me, sis! 🤣 THEY look better!!
Taylor Sanders also the eye look so much more expressive
@Variety_Vids oh lol i dont remember commenting here
@William Michaels if the artist wanted a yellowed painting, they would have tinted it as such. The varnish is just to protect the painting, and once yellowed removes what the artist intended.
God I hate it sm, the varish covers so much
'The old varnish is not the artist's original vision.'
Why the Moana Lisa should be cleaned!!!
The risk for damage is very high and not many people want to restore it. (Or so I have heard)
Da Vinci used very unusual and experimental paints and painting techniques, some of which made his work more fragile than other paintings. It is impossible (currently) to clean/restore his work without damaging it.
The Mona Lisa cannot currently be restored. Da Vinci’s technique for painting her makes it physically impossible to strip the varnish without removing the top layers of paint themselves. It is believed that he adjusted her so many times that there are hundreds of layers of varnish and paint on the canvas.
I like Moana.
Da Vinci didn't used the same techniques as the other did, he directly painted the pigments in dry canvas which is if the mona lisa is restored, the moments the solvent was swabbed, the paint will mix in and their will be nothing left except a old canvas.
4:50 when you get a foundation that’s darker than your skin tone
Hahaha
laura soto HAHHAHAHAHAHAH
10:50 when you just came back from vacation and everyone has tanned dark skin but not you
Faf lsr 😂
True lmfao 😂😂
The cleaning is my absolute favorite part!
My favourite part is the retouching! 😊
My favourite part is when he apply the new varnish
the whole process is my favorite moment :-)
Nessys oooo yeah that part is very satisfying
bimacz ain’t that the dang truth!
Me taking my makeup off at 3am
😂
You wear makeup? Why bother when you are already hotter than the surface of the sun? 😊
Pseudonayme 77 you smooth devil
@ welp some of us fall asleep with it or go out so 3am is a good time to take it off
And you are even more beautiful
Someday someone will do conservation work on Bob Ross' paintings. They might accidentally remove the original paint, Bob Ross will speak down from the cloud:
"No worries, just have fun. It's not a mistake, just happy little accidents".
He used so much oil in the white foundation layer that the paintings are certain to yellow through and through. The paintings were not the point anyway. The point was to teach people an easy way to have fun messing around with paint. That and to sell art supplies.
underrated comment by far!!!!!
honestly if someone messed up one of my paintings trying to conserve them in the future, i'd probably come down from heaven and throw hands
I hope conservationists check out Bob Ross's paintings someday soon. They are not being conserved at all just boxed away in a garage. Would be sad if his paintings just rod away in there. The paintings and Bob made me so happy as a child.
@@paullynlu6683 What about Wilhelm Alexander's paintings? He taught Bob Ross his "quick" wet-on-wet technique. Mr. Alexander was fun to watch paint.
The difference is breathtaking.
True
The rosy cheeks coming back was great to watch
i remember seeing art work like this as a kid and wondering why the artist always used weirdly yellow/brown colours
The painting is "Grady's Daughters" - oil on canvas, Jack Torrance (American) 1921
Terrible mess.
werent the grady twins the ones from the shining too?
@@izziemayboyce8011 lol it's a joke, jack torrance is the main character of the shining.
@@justbg lol I'm so dumb
Thanks ! I always try to date the painting by myself and I was so frustrated when he didn’t tell the answer haha
I was today old when I realized that artists didn’t just paint with a sepia filter back in the day. Like wow, they had light paint and bright colors back then? Everyone wasn’t just jaundiced? I feel like an idiot. 😜
same. i just thaught "ugly" was the popular style back then 😂 it was only when i saw art restoration videos like this i started to see the beauty. no wonder the mona lisa looks like ... tHAT
swimfan3588 same omg i just thought that was the style and they didn’t have brightly colored paints
@@armymelodyloe1308 It makes me sad that we can't clean the Mona Lisa. da Vinci's painting style makes it so even cleaning it would take off the paint layers. I'm so disappointed since he was was so talented, yet we can hardly see it anymore.
@@tristonanan eh, i mean one of Leonardo's boyfriends did a copy of the mona lisa so we know what she would look like if we could clean up that filth. its basically like we have two of them. i dont think that particular painting being unrestorable is that big of a tragedy tbh.
I never knew painting restorers exist...
Oh my goodness, eyes got so much dimension after removing that varnish, everything got that effect, but for some reason change in eyes was the most striking to me.
same for me
I'm a custom picture framer and I love my work. But sometimes I think this is my dream job.
I was a custom picture framer and this seems like a logical next step, though I know very different work.
Humans place a lot of symbolism on the eyes, more so than any other part of the body, I think.
Exactly!! I realized how they had highlights in them and all the small details little by little as he removed!! I was just lost in the process of this video in fascination!!
If i were a professional artist i certainly wouldnt want people to be keeping some dingy gross varnish on my painting after 300 years. It would be kind of insulting; why would someone be letting my artwork be destroyed just because it looks cool?
This. I don't varnish my paintings because I haven't found one that doesn't oversaturate the living hell out of my work. I work in bright colors picked at the time and mixed down to a given smoothness and softness because they worked. But when varnished they go into a state of nasty. It feels plastic instead of soft and touchable. Like people who see my stuff reach out to touch it. I want them to keep doing that. So if some asshole varnished my pieces...and then let them get dirty as shit, I'm going to haunt their stupid ass for wreaking my painting and praising the dirt on it like dirt has more value than the work I put in.
I'll never understand a collector who thinks the dirt has more value than the art.
You wouldn’t care cause you’d be long dead, the people who owns the painting is the person who gets to decide how it should be treated.
@@DembaiVT Can you upload photos of your paintings?
It depends how you want to look at a piece of art, is it the piece of art itself and the age of it is just a part of it? or do we want to keep the artists intention? there's no right answer i think, but i love watching him clean it :b
Isn't it the purpose of varnish to protect the painting from aging and dirt to make it last for hundreds of years?
as an artist myself, I want to thank you for the bit about why you remove the varnish. If I had intended a piece that I've painted to look yellowed, I would have done it myself. When I put paint on, I put it on with the intention of being the exact color it was when I chose it. I wouldn't want it to look yellowed or brown or aged. I'd want it to look like how it looked when I finished it. You are just returning the painting to how the artist wanted it to look and that's wonderful.
You're a very talented restorer.
Wow, we must follow a lot of the same channels, because I see you all the time in the comments. From bats to art! 🙂
Hey there! Yes, I do follow several bat rescuer channels. I'll look out for you around TH-cam. :-)
Jademonkey is your couple name. TH-cam soul mates.
@@morningcoffee1111 I ship them now
@@Fluffymonkeyem I ship it
Gosh, watching those painted eyes come alive as the old varnish was removed, was nothing short of magical.
It was! I don’t know how people can argue that you should leave the old varnish on
It was like they were starring into your soul
It kinda is uncomfortable to look directly into their newly cleaned eyes. It make the painting alive
When you realize he’s put in a phantom of the opera piano cover to make it even more classy
Dear greyztone ...dont flex. Sincerely, me
I knew it! I just wasn't sure xD
Ethan Britt i knew it! I still can’t figure out what song it is though. At first I thought it was a mellowed down overture
Ethan Britt do you know what song it is?
@@alexsantoro597 The Music of The Night
“They are all interesting opinions, but they are all inaccurate”
He is the master of subtle insults
this is honestly one of my favorite channels on youtube. not only is it relaxing but i have learned a lot about something i never knew about
Same
Gosh! Those girls came alive as you were taking off the old varnish! It seemed as if the first sister you did woke up as you were cleaning her eyes, face and hair... Thank You for sharing your work.
smartoldlady I feel like when he cleaned them they were alive again like before they genuinely looked dead and not real after he cleaned it was like whoa
What solution can be used to remove the varnish and dirt?
When you buy a new bronzer and get overwhelmed with it 4:44
I love when it’s narrated, I learn so much about art. The cleaning is peaceful, and the transformation is wonderful ❗️❗️
I love you almost correcting art snobs who feel the old and discolored varnish is "a part of the appearance", when it isn't what the painting looked like when the artist made it. And as an artist (feels weird calling myself that, but I am so I will!) the idea of my art being preserved the way I envisioned it is satisfying to my soul. Keep the good work up!
JewelCat Demon Princesses Mood! I am loving oil painting now that I’ve started and I would be distraught if no one cared to maintain the portraits and pieces of which I pour my heart and soul. I’d add a small note on the back of the canvas giving information about your varnish so people will know if they ever want to restore your work :)
I can't imagine if someone varnished my unvarnished pieces (they're supposed to soft and almost touchable FFS) and then after the varnish yellowed and got all ugly went 'its supposed to be gnarly like that'. Like no.
Varnish puts a barrier between the viewer and your paint. You varnish my shit over my dead body. Now admittedly...they're going to get dirty and so forth, but cleaning wise I'd want them to remain soft and absorbing, not shiny and oversaturated.
you do knopw there are maaaaaaany diff types of varnish... @@DembaiVT
Yes those snobs. They regard art restoration like it’s done by hobbyists, and not trained professionals who take time researching and learning different art techniques.
Dembai yeah your fanart is just gonna get dirt all over it. Stop being cocky, if the person owns your painting they have the right to poke holes in the canvas if they want to.
i know nothing about art but i love ur channel so much!!
Same here! :)
Same
This video as well as some others you've done conclusively settles the argument over whether to remove old discolored varnish or leave it on, for me. These two sisters' faces communicate very little emotional content when they're covered by the old varnish. But when they're cleaned, their expressions are revealed in all their complexity, and the emotion shines through. I cannot envision a painter that would prefer the muddy, dingy painting you started with..
plus keeping the old varnish on distorts history i have lost count of the number of comments that express the inaccurate view that bright colours are more popular now or just weren't possible in the past.
"and those are all interesting .... opinions ... but they're all inaccurate." lol
thank you for advocating for the artist's vision and intent 🙏
I’m currently at the age when you have to start deciding what career you want to pursue, and it’s funny that something that I didn’t even know about a few months ago is now something I would be interested in having a career in! Thank you for inspiring me and showing me something new and interesting.
Thanks for the likes everyone x
Good luck!
Try "perusing" a dictionary before you use words you dont understand and make an ass of yourself in public.
Szgerle She obviously meant and misspelled pursue, there is no need to be such an asshole. She knows what pursue means. The fact that you don’t understand that just means you have no common sense. Also, to point out the hypocrisy; it’s spelled “don’t.”
@@Szgerle you're the only one here being an ass.
@@hardboiledegg7324 "oh noes, I must defend the fair maidens honor on the internet" keep it coming, its amazing
im an artist (but i do illustration rather than fine art) and these always make me so happy. the care and time put into these! it makes me warm to imagine someone putting this much love to conserve something of mine
Illustration is fine art my dear. Have faith a pride in what you do! Most "fine art" pieces were illustrations of the bible. Just done in a different medium.
Dave Jackson i guess youre right! i never thought about it like that, thank you!! i always worry that illustration is ‘lesser’ than the fine art i could choose to do so this was nice :)
I can’t believe the painting went from a Victorian nightmare to a beautifully detailed and vivid portrait ❤️ incredible work
I’m currently painting a memorial for my hamster who died. I don’t have much going on, I’ve never had many pets until her, and even though I’m 19 and she technically belonged to my sister, she was always closer to me. Your videos have acted as a company for me. I’ve been home alone a lot recently working on the piece, which doesn’t look like a lot, but the lettering has taken several days by itself. Thank you for sharing what you do. Because it has kept me company through such a dark time for me, between changing medications and being alone for a long time every day, you have helped me so much, both coming to terms with everything and valuing my work.
That’s so sweet.
Amazing work.
Dan! You watch these videos too!?!?! The transformation is always so amazing to watch!
Well hello Dan Bell!
++++++++
Ay its dan!
Dan why do I find you everywhere. Aren’t you busy rummaging through disgusting motel rooms?
I appreciate that you are now taking the time to explain to us all the background events you go through leading up to the actual process, including researching the solvents and the paints used and the artists methods. Thank you for sharing with us. It truly is fascinating to watch, listen and learn from you.
I love this, it helps us to realize that the painters back then didn’t always make dull boring paintings like we expect, they make them just as colorful as we do today
Also when he says “the arrest can apply a petena to the painting” is also a thing it’s like they COULD have made it all dark and muddy but they CHOSE not to.
I used to think “Wow everyone In the olden days were so jaundiced.” Never would have thought it was just dirty!
I think a lot of us would like to see longer videos about the cleaning process! They don’t need to be narrated all the way, we just want to see the process and admire the change! It is the most satisfying thing ever. Thank you for your work!
Honestly find your videos so soothing to watch
This is so interesting. In 1987 I went to the Sistine Chapel and they were in the process of cleaning the ceiling. It was amazing to see half of ceiling looking the way we all have perceived it through the years and the other half of what it must have looked like when it was new. You're work reminds me of that. I so appreciate that there are people like you that are bringing back the true image of what the painter wanted to portray when he/she made the work. Thank you.
There was an awful lot of controversy about the Sistine Chapel cleaning, with some people complaining that they were 'removing the patina'. The big shock was discovering that Michaelangelo used such cartoon like colours : watermelon pink, lime green etc.
This makes me stressed as an artist for so many reasons, including my art ever becoming this yellow, and the fact that people might wanna keep it yellow, and that fact that I am 17 and have never sold or plan to sell a painting any time soo and I should NOT be worrying about stuff like this rn
I so love and appreciate your videos. Can you please do a video on your training/education for those interested in conservation?
I'd like to see that too. I have a friend who's interested in becoming a restorer.
Yeah, that'd be great
Well you have to go to college ....
Maria Heart yeah that much is obvious. It's just that I live in a different country so it would've been interesting for me to see how the process differs in the US.
Because back here in Germany, you gotta have at least a year of practical experience in such a subject to even get accepted into university.
@@mariaheart6980 I'm fairly certain that just going to college doesn't make you fit to be a fine art restorer.
Such a beautiful painting its literally like night and day after the cleaning
i love how he goes through each individual step
like
he dissects exactly what he means when he says a painting is 'dirty'
and what he's removing
and how
that's what some art classes fail to explain when they get you to do something
I can't believe people actually think artists back then would be happy with people just letting their work rot because you want to preserve the "natural integrity of the peice."
My only comment is I would love to see a before and after at the end to see the transformation of your work:)
When you cleaned the eyes it brought them back to life. How incredibly beautiful what the original artist did and what you're bringing back.
Watching these videos make me realise how much I would love to do this. I feel that at my age the chance of doing this is already far behind me, but that doesn’t change the feeling I get when viewing each of his restorations.
You literally reached back in time and retrieved the mood of this piece. At first it was gloomy, conveying something sad and stressful. I didnt like it. Now it is light, liberated, vital and youthful. The girls look safe instead of imperiled, even a bit impish. You have remarkable judgment, touch, instinct, and competence. The vision and skill of the original artist has been resurrected and restored.. I'm so impressed and moved by this!.
I love how the painting reveals itself as you clean it. It's amazing how much the old varnish changes the look of the painting over time. Thanks for stepping through the process.
Oh wow, what a wonderful painting. Before the removal they looked like a flat image but after the shading came back in full force. Their eyes look so real
My first impression of the girls was: How sad.
Then I saw the girl on the right and she slowly changed to somebody who is mischievous and hiding it under a serious surface.
Nice work.
Found the painting description on an auction site. “ Early American 19th C Portrait Painting of Twin Girls in Matching Red Dresses. Oil on board. Housed in an antique gold leaf frame. This painting has been in the same Connecticut family since the early 1950s when it was purchased at an estate auction in Millerton, New York in Dutchess County along with the Tiffany & Co sterling silver sold in our October 9th auction. Research and comparison to known works has suggested this painting could be the work of Ammi Phillips (April 24, 1788 - July 11, 1865) who was very active in the area having lived in the Dutchess County town of Rhinebeck, New York. Additional images and video are available by email request. Painting itself measures 21 x 29 inches, frame measures 27 x 35.5 inches.”
You are really a knowledgable and intriguing man! You clearly have love and compassion for what you do and you make the owners of the painting so happy as well! Thanks for the video!
The narrator has such a soothing voice
I'm really enjoying watching your restoration videos. As an artist, I have to agree with your sentiment about removing the discolored, aged varnish. Had the original artist wanted the painting to be that way, they would have painted it that way in the first place. I bet if they could see their works coming back to their full, vivid color again, they'd be very happy and would be thanking you. I think the people who like the patina are the ones who are more focused on the value of preservation, meaning the painting hasn't been meddled with in any way, and sure, perhaps there's value to a painting like that, but it does the original art no justice.
The added detail like the illumination of the top of the hair and side of the cheek with the rose pigmentations is so superb after the gunk was removed. The vibrancy of the dress it’s like night and day. The girls looked so somber before.
How beautiful this painting is.. I don't know why but there's compassion warmness and love of two little sisters😍😍🥺and it's making me emotional!
Wow! Didn't know varnish could be removed with compressed air. I would love to see an example of that once another chance to do so comes by your studio.
This is a beautiful painting.
This made me become emotional and I don't know why haha idk there is just something beautiful about restoring the intent of an artist
It's like getting a rare glimpse of the past, a view of a moment in time that will never come back. I get emotional too 😊
Absolutely LOVE this channel. I'm writing a thesis at the moment and it's so nice to be able to relax and immerse myself in these videos for a few minutes. Instant recharge!
I just wanted to say I love your videos, this is like my form of ASMR. Very informative, and interesting
i really love your videos whenever i need to clam down i actually watch a video by your, truly what you do amazes me
As the original paint was expose I started to tear up. The quality of the work is gorgeous. There is something about this one that is just so touching.
I totally agree. The painting is formal but there is a great tenderness to it as well.
I’m amazed that anyone could give a thumbs down to this channel. You do a wonderful job and thank for saving these beautiful paintings and bringing them back to life and letting us see what the artist created.
You've breathed life into this painting again, I imagine the original artist would've been so glad to know the people of today were able to see the painting in its original glory.
I thought I'd seen all your old videos, and suddenly TH-cam decides I hadn't.
What a beautiful example of your exceptional skill. What a lovely end-result!!!
What an incredibly satisfying way to spend one's days ... To see the before and after is nothing less than stunning ! I think the spirits of artists past must breathe a sigh of contented relief to know their work has found its way into your skillful hands...
At 1:15 it sounds like the phantom of the opera "music of the night"!...just me....ok (I really love ur videos btw x)
Allysa Macdonald I thought that to ! I know that number to well and it’s my fave performance
Will you be doing more FULL conservation videos I love them and feel really satisfied once they are finished
I have a few coming up that I should have after Thanksgiving. It just takes a lot of time to do the conservation and then the editing, etc...
All your efforts are so appreciated 🙌
I love how this painting came to life. Beautiful
The presence that appears once you cleaned the first eye
was astounding! Such a difference in depth between the
two eyes which really brought the piece alive.
Wonderful job.
I wish to see the clients' reactions to the results, really. If some of them allow you, please show record them and show us.
Seconded!!!
So glad you said that about "patina". Drives me crazy how people fall for dirt & grime & think that's just soooo cool. And how dealers sell people dirty & beat up pieces at a jacked up prices because "ohhh - THAT patina!"
Thank you!!
I love the longer video’s explaining the whole process for each painting but man I’d love to see more ones like this that are just the cleaning process coz man that’s satisfying
I am permanently disabled by carpal tunnel syndrome, and will not restore any paintings, still the videos are enriching, entertaining, healing, and relaxing. Please keep them coming.
Varnish is a thing they often did replace pretty frequently, as a part of the mainteance of the paintings so removing it is not a big deal as said since it most likly has allredy been done several times on old paintings.
(i accidentally deletd half of this post, was i wrote here was this, if one want to do that "at home" on a less valuable painting, it's extremly importatnt to NEVER EVER use chemicals that contain mineral based oils/petroleum products or any sort of plastic. because mineral based oils will slovly destroy both paintings and also textiles and wood, like old wooden furniture ower time, plastic will trap moisture and ower time create a perfect home for fungis and bacterias wich will also slowly break down the surface ower time beside the fact that most types of plastic are it self bad for the substrate, NEVER EVER use plastic paint or syntetic oils on valuable old furniture.)
Just a word of warning if a non professional want to try it on a less valuable painting, sometimes parts of the shading is done with the same materials as the varnish and not with oilpaint as the rest of the picture so one need to be careful to not remove those layers if it's the case.
Everytime he says varnish take a shot
*dies
And solvent 😄
Yep
So you have a death wish then? Because that's how you get dead. Lol.
Yes I know I said get dead. I did it on purpose.
Whenever I can't sleep, I play one of yalls videos. Julian has such a soothing voice and the piano in the background makes for great help to go to bed aha
lol I flinched every time he touched an eye! Truly breathtaking results
i love these videos so much - everything about them are so therapeutic
Thank you for this good mood❤
Today has been a very hard day for me. I’ve had a full blown panic attack and a mental breakdown. Lots of things have happened today that’s made me upset. But I instantly came to these videos because I know they’ll be calming and relaxing. Thanks Julian.
It’s amazing how the eyes come alive when cleaned. A total transformation.
This video has answered SO many questions about restoration!
Thank you SO MUCH!! xx
Y’all do great work so others can enjoy these works of art
i don’t know a thing about art but this channel videos are the best thing that happened in my life
besides the dirt, the painting is in really great shape... must have been pretty easy to finish comparing it to other paintings that are in real bad shape.
loved the video and I'm happy you had a painting to rest a little since you didn't have to scrape or repaint.
Resembles a still image from a nineteenth-century version of "The Shining".
Ikr!!!!
I scrolled through all the comments looking for this one
I love watching these videos. This one in particular was sooo satisfying to watch. I'm curious about how you entered this field - it would be cool if you were able to make a Q&A video!
I would also like it if you did a video on what college courses and training you have been through. I watch these with my children as a way to expose them to the many different things that one can choose to do with their lives and a list of the courses and training would greatly help them see what they would have to do if they found a passion for restoring art...
6:56.... when this eye becomes alive...!
It must be amazing to rediscover the original colors of a painting, , even after years of experiencing renovations!
As always, amazing work!
These videos are really great.
I swear to god that the way he explain his works feels like im reading a technical textbook. Amazing work.
This is a darling little painting! I love those little girls. I can’t help but imagine how difficult it must have been for them to maintain a solemn look. You know little girls of that age are gigglers. Lol