I found the cleaning process outlined in this video fascinating yet, it seems a tad bit laborious. I’ve been using a quicker method, successfully for decades: … for an oil painting that is less than a hundred years old (and at least 6 months since it was last painted) and is in good condition, one can eliminate dust and thoroughly spring clean the surface with a simple potato: slice the tuber in half and with circular motions rub the cut potato onto the surface of the painting. The slight acidity of the tuber eats into the paint just enough to prepare the surface for a fresh coat of paint. Instead of a potato, one can also use cuttlefish bone (rather than high grit sandpaper) To finish, rinse the painting in the shower (yes, the shower!) and use a shower squeegee to remove excess water. If you intend to work on the painting anew, apply a very, very fine coat of linseed oil. If you paint with acrylics - go straight to the shower: apply water to the surface of the painting and then with a wide (4cm), soft brush loaded with a spot of detergent, clean the surface of the painting with circular motions. Rinse off the bubbly water and shower squeegee the surface. Now the above method may seem brutal, but fear not - your painting is almost certainly a lot tougher than you think. And if you are squeamish, try gently rolling small soft balls of bread onto your painting. Bread will take off a lot of the dirt and dust.
Thank you, this was terrific. I have a few questions, and I especially like your scary Windex degreasing tip. Given the fat over lean rule, did you paint this piece with anything fatter than Liquin? Liquin is a pretty lean medium. Was this painting painted with Liquin? I am thinking because I use a lot of umbers so I use a fair bit of stand or fat oil to counter the sinking in, and I oil out (walnut + spike + optional stand oil) a few times in the course of a painting just so I can see my values when it's sunken in. I used to use alkyd media (Galkyd Lite) but I stopped because the medium started to dry almost as fast as I lay it down and that made it difficult to get even values when working with transparent pigments. Lately I've been using Rublev's Oleogel to solve the sinking in problem with less fat because it's not an alkyd. I've found most of the alkyd mediums I've tried so tacky and with so much drag that you simply couldn't go over it with a paper towel without the towel coming apart and leaving lint, especially if, say, a month had gone by since you first opened the bottle. So, why did you choose an alkyd medium for this process?
I will try this out, I have several paintings that I want to take further or rehab. Do you oil out with Liquin? I've seen another artist apply a Liquin glaze that he then painted into, I have never tried oiling out with it. Thanks for the demo, Love your work and this channel!
I have used liquin for the past 20 yrs to oil out with great success! i have a great story about liquin i’ll share one day on here, about the inventor of it!
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Beautiful painting David, process very well described, thank you 😊
Thank you!! ❤
Fascinating idea, David! I have several paintings that I have abandoned through the years, so this is an interesting thought. Thanks for sharing!
thanks man!!
Wonderful, very helpful thank you for sharing. I look forward to see how the painting develops.
Beautiful painting
Thats a great method of rejuvenating abandoned works., very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it
I found the cleaning process outlined in this video fascinating yet, it seems a tad bit laborious. I’ve been using a quicker method, successfully for decades: … for an oil painting that is less than a hundred years old (and at least 6 months since it was last painted) and is in good condition, one can eliminate dust and thoroughly spring clean the surface with a simple potato: slice the tuber in half and with circular motions rub the cut potato onto the surface of the painting. The slight acidity of the tuber eats into the paint just enough to prepare the surface for a fresh coat of paint. Instead of a potato, one can also use cuttlefish bone (rather than high grit sandpaper) To finish, rinse the painting in the shower (yes, the shower!) and use a shower squeegee to remove excess water. If you intend to work on the painting anew, apply a very, very fine coat of linseed oil. If you paint with acrylics - go straight to the shower: apply water to the surface of the painting and then with a wide (4cm), soft brush loaded with a spot of detergent, clean the surface of the painting with circular motions. Rinse off the bubbly water and shower squeegee the surface.
Now the above method may seem brutal, but fear not - your painting is almost certainly a lot tougher than you think. And if you are squeamish, try gently rolling small soft balls of bread onto your painting. Bread will take off a lot of the dirt and dust.
Thank you, this was terrific. I have a few questions, and I especially like your scary Windex degreasing tip. Given the fat over lean rule, did you paint this piece with anything fatter than Liquin? Liquin is a pretty lean medium. Was this painting painted with Liquin? I am thinking because I use a lot of umbers so I use a fair bit of stand or fat oil to counter the sinking in, and I oil out (walnut + spike + optional stand oil) a few times in the course of a painting just so I can see my values when it's sunken in. I used to use alkyd media (Galkyd Lite) but I stopped because the medium started to dry almost as fast as I lay it down and that made it difficult to get even values when working with transparent pigments. Lately I've been using Rublev's Oleogel to solve the sinking in problem with less fat because it's not an alkyd. I've found most of the alkyd mediums I've tried so tacky and with so much drag that you simply couldn't go over it with a paper towel without the towel coming apart and leaving lint, especially if, say, a month had gone by since you first opened the bottle. So, why did you choose an alkyd medium for this process?
I will try this out, I have several paintings that I want to take further or rehab. Do you oil out with Liquin? I've seen another artist apply a Liquin glaze that he then painted into, I have never tried oiling out with it. Thanks for the demo, Love your work and this channel!
I have used liquin for the past 20 yrs to oil out with great success! i have a great story about liquin i’ll share one day on here, about the inventor of it!