Posted 10 years ago
wpj
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Not sure if this is the right category for this 1945 oil painting that was
buried under 68 years of cigarette smoke and neglect but wanted to
share what could be done to save and conserve these pieces. This
piece was just cleaned, not retouched. I love the finished product.
This particular painting was painted in 1945 by a local German
immigrant/self-taught painter. What a beautiful eye he had for
detail and for nature. His name was Gilbert Schumann.
Stunning piece my friend...and you have a great eye for everything :)
Thanks my friend!!! Same goes for you, same goes for you! Love
all your posts!!
The colours are great!
Aren't they, and the water is blue not brown!
What did you use to clean this so well without hurting the paint?
I usually use Windsor and Newton cleaner but this painting smelled so foul
and was really making me sick and then the cleaner made it worse. The weather
was very cold and I could not get any fresh air so I Googled it and found that
diluted soap and a soft baby tooth brush can be used. One has to be careful with
the water to not let it permeate the painting or sit on it very long. This painting
had heavy nicotine on it and the cleaner did not seem to work anyways so I tried
the soap and water and look at the results. I varnished it with Damar gloss and
decided it needed a matte finish which has a sheen and it looked great afterwards.
Of course, I would never do this to a painting that has monetary value but because this painting had no chance as it was I took the chance on it. :)
Dawn diluted 1 part to three parts water
Yeah, soap & water works well on antique woods.
well done, big dif...................
I have done this to several other hopelessly dirty paintings and they all
come through it fine.
I did the same to one of my cabelle oil paintings which have more then just oil in them ..lol
dawn is great.. I use it on wood bowls as well
I started years ago by cleaning lithographs and just recently got
brave enough to try oil paintings. It's fun to rescue old stuff.
I agree ..its fun to find something and bring it back to life.,...an old fella would tell me you gotta lay it down in order to pick it up ..lol... hmm was that for betting at the track ...lol
As I was cleaning this I saw that each bird was perfectly shaped, each had its wings at a different angle and that only one bird had its mouth open ( guess he was the leader). Then the colors started to surface and what I thought was grey was purple and the clouds looked on fire. I thought that this artist really put himelf into this painting and how fine it must have been when he first completed it. I do know that he did commit suicide at some point too and it
was neat to think that something of himself had come back to life.
(I thought that this artist really put himself into this painting ) most people think just cause its by a paint by the name of bla bla bla ..but what real counts is what kind of day there having and what they paint that Day .. and how many they put out that day ...then they will pick out the best ones for them self's .. to sit on
and dump the others at a art dealer to keep them in paint and such painters like cobelle lost his best paintings in a fire at his house and mine is sign cobelle not charles cobelle which dates it for me as well ..... ... ...lol
Ive lived in the southwest US for 30 years and every once in a while we will get a "pre-cleaned" sunset. I actually dont mind it that much because those rich golden (nicotine) sunsets do happen naturally and not often. Also get lots of post-cleaned sunsets as well, I immediately thought of SW US. Both color schemes are accurate out here. Either way I like it.
So true, so true, unfortunately we have more "pre-cleaned" sunsets now than we used to have. That "post-cleaned" was 1945, probably after a cold front came
through.......................