00:13 - How come paintings can be sitting on the hot table during treatments? Won’t it damage them?
01:01 - Couldn't the “punch” for removing the dowels be made of something more ...
2023-10-06 16:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey gang,
If perchance someone were to take a film crew and you into a museum with an all access pass, what would you find interesting, what questions would you ask and what would you j...
2023-09-26 16:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Inherited from a relative, this painting of Venice's Grand Canal arrived worse for wear with some glaringly obvious problems. There were however, a few surprises in store for us along the way...
2023-09-24 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
00:56 - Did the owner know just how bad the old work was?
03:09 - Would x-ray or infrared imaging been useful to see through the overpaint to the original paint layer?
05:20...
2023-09-15 14:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey gang,
I know that I have epilogues due for the screen and the about face video and they’re coming, but I’m thinking about recording one for the fail video first and getting that out-...
2023-09-13 13:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We've all seen it time and time again; the best of intentions gone horribly wrong. But what happens after the gawking and attention wanes, the painting is still in need of care and attention ...
2023-09-10 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The ability to stand in front of an object composed of wood, fabric and paint and become lost, to transcend time and space and lose one's self is something that no medium other than painting can ac...
2023-08-20 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
00:33 - Talk about different lining canvas weights and how you choose one
02:13 - How come the paint doesn't detach form the canvas when the old adhesive is removed?
04:33 -...
2023-08-14 12:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Paintings are meant to be on the wall, viewed from a distance and certainly never touched. Until they're not. Such is the case with a standing screen painted by the owner's father despe...
2023-08-06 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
01:07 - Why was the animal glue so tenacious this time?
02:17 - Talk about the research that Cameron did and who is actually pictured…
06:02 - Why don’t you feature more...
2023-07-31 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Like every collector of artwork, every painting lives a life whether the artist envisions it or not, and throughout that time a piece can be subject to any number of factors that can undermine its ...
2023-07-16 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Like every collector of artwork, every painting lives a life whether the artist envisions it or not, and throughout that time a piece can be subject to any number of factors that can undermine its ...
2023-07-09 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
03:18 - Were there any reference photos of the painting and do you ever use photos?
06:26 - Wait Julian, this paper is almost what?!?! What was that cliffhanger?
07:16 - How do yo...
2023-07-03 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Of all the tens of thousands of paintings I've seen and worked on, there's one type that has the ability to consistently capture my attention and heart and that's portraiture. Even though thi...
2023-06-18 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes, despite our best attempts and hopes, a confluence of events come together to threaten a painting on an existential level. For Brian Dean a climate change advocate and expert and th...
2023-06-04 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes, despite our best attempts and hopes, a confluence of events come together to threaten a painting on an existential level. For Brian Dean a climate change advocate and expert and th...
2023-05-28 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
00:30 - Did you discover that you’ve been saying Washi Kozo wrong all along?!
01:24 - Why are you still using sheetrock and cinder blocks to press paintings instead of a high-tech too...
2023-05-14 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A Painting of a woman carrying water, the artist doing the heavy lifting of telling her story and the conservator carrying the weight of preserving the story and the artistry.
2023-05-07 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It is not uncommon to look at a painting and right from the outset know that the scope of work will be broad and demanding. The hope is that despite all of the problems and challenges, the pi...
2023-04-16 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It is not uncommon to look at a painting and right from the outset know that the scope of work will be broad and demanding. The hope is that despite all of the problems and challenges, the pi...
2023-04-09 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
00:52 - ABSTRACTION!!! Also, talk about the possibility of reversing the repair you did.
04:43 - Is the paper pulp patch thick enough to prevent bleed through from the back? ...
2023-03-22 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Things are disposable. We'll be happier if we don't become attached to objects. Everything can be replaced.
Or, maybe not...
Sorry about the late pos...
2023-03-20 17:31:04 +0000 UTC View Post
00:14 - Do you listen to music and do you keep the studio at a set temperature/humidity?
01:17 - Talk about the motion you use to scrape and how it’s not confined to just your wrist b...
2023-03-17 15:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Damage can disrupt the way we look at a painting; it can break the illusion, flatten the space or interrupt the flow of the composition. This diminutive painting by the African American paint...
2023-03-05 06:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
00:58 - A sartorial question…
01:22 - A comment about the state of the finished frame.
01:57 - Would you ever work on a frame within the same ethical confines as a painting?
03:...
2023-02-22 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We finally wrap up the work on the stubborn painting that will not go quietly into the night.
Apologies for the late post… Simone forgot to do his job 😜
2023-02-12 12:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post
It may seem like damage to a painting is purely accidental and just part of the life of a given object. But the conspiracy of poor materials, neglectful care and downright bad past conservati...
2023-02-05 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A shorter one this time around but still great questions!
2023-01-26 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
While conservation is often described as a non-creative field, there are moments of intense creativity; in the selection of materials, in the solving of a unique problem with technology and sometim...
2023-01-22 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes the smallest distractions can add up to destroy to ability of the viewer from appreciating the scene writ large. But if those distractions can be addressed then we may just be able ...
2023-01-08 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post