The Resistor - Epliogue
🕑 Added 2023-03-17 15:21:48 +0000 UTC00:14 - 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 but through your whole body
02:44 - Did the hot table get new hoses, why?
04:11 - Talk about quoting a project and the difficulty of unknowns
07:19 - No impregnation on this one? why?
08:24 - How long ago was this painting last conserved?
10:01 - Why is the image on one side of the seam darker?
11:35 - Talk about doing more retouching and blending than normal on the seam.
14:06 - Are oil paints ever appropriate for retouching?
15:14 - Do you mix your own fill-in medium?
16:21 - Are clients ever shocked by a cleaned/conserved painting?
19:08 - How long does it take to come up with titles/themes for the videos?
20:57 - Talk about the different retouching techniques you’d use to mimic the artist’s original work.
23:03 - If you could make the previous restorer write a phrase on the blackboard 100 times as punishment, what would it be and why?
24:15 - Talk about tedium and monotony in your work.
Comments
I would love to see a video with dates added because I do my best to try to figure out how long each project takes (mostly by seeing if I can count the outfit changes lol) but then I noticed a recent video with November 2022 on the label and realized I had absolutely no conception of how long this sort of work actually takes
Is there a way to give clients an idea what a restored painting might look like? Yes, actually there is a way to remove varnish or discolorations digitally. Here is an example created by me usinga rather famous painting: https://postimg.cc/9rNw7XwD (original digital copy provided by google arts)