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#easylikeSundaymorning restoring this badly damaged 300 year old painting from the UK.
There are tears and holes in the canvas and missing paint.
Art restoration brings together my love of restoring things to vitality, painting, science and woodworking / cabinetry making.
There are tears and holes in the canvas and missing paint.
Art restoration brings together my love of restoring things to vitality, painting, science and woodworking / cabinetry making.
I started by patching the tears & holes by using archival acid free glue to add new linen canvas to the back of the painting.
You can see how deep the holes are. Lots of layers of gesso, hide glue, & paint had been used 300 years ago. I have filled in the holes with Gesso, a kind of stretchable plaster. I added Lots of small layers until the gesso was just a little higher than the surface of painting
