One of my loyal readers was seeking advice cleaning an oil painting:
My grandmother did several oil paintings before she died. They are lovely, but only valuable to our family. My mother, a heavy smoker, hung a small oil painting (about 12 x 18) in her small studio apartment for many years. This week she is moving, and gave me the painting. It is sticky and drippy with smoke residue.
My local art gallery wants almost $200 to clean it!
Is there a home-remedy that I could attempt? Obviously, I dont want to damage it, but its not a valuable piece, and I just want it cleaned enough to hang in my kitchen (still life with wine and fruit). Thanks for any advice you can offer!
I cant make any guarantees (because Im not a curator) about the safety of these methods for your particular painting. But I can tell you what I do to clean the paintings I own.
1.The safest option, but wont work on sticky areas is to use a very soft brush to remove dust and soot particles (super soft paintbrush, baby toothbrush, shaving brush, that kind of thing). You can buy a micro attachment kit for your vacuum that has small brushes (under an inch in diameter) for deeper...
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