Now my last course has ended (only waiting for the number on that), and the only thing remaining is my thesis. For which I still don’t have a subject...

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Now my last course has ended (only waiting for the number on that), and the only thing remaining is my thesis. For which I still don’t have a subject...
It is a bit terrifying that this is my last year of school and now I am almost done with all my courses, but I still don’t know what the “flip” I am supposed to do after school....
First whole week of work done! I’ve learnd how to take documentation photos and how to package them properly. Also I’ve been helping with changing an exhibition at the museum. So I think this summer will and this job will be really nice.
The third year is now over and the summer is slowly getting here. And that means of course the beginning of my second internship. I’m going to work 4 months at a museum so I have my hopes up for a great summer!
Finally finished this piece, it isn’t pretty but at least it is finally done! Also the project work seminar is now over so that’s nice as well. Now there is only one more decorative painting to be done and then this semester is over!
A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish Courtesy Philip Mould
PAINT RESTORATION OF MESMERIZING
I saw this on Twitter. He’s using acetone, but a cellulose ether has been added to make it into a gel (probably Klucel—this entire gel mixture is sometimes just called Klucel by restorers, but Klucel is specifically the stuff that makes the gel).
Normally, acetone is too volatile for restoration, but when it’s a gel, it becomes very stable and a) stays on top of the porous surface of the painting, and b) won’t evaporate. So it can eat up the varnish.
It looks scary, but acetone has no effect on oils, and jelly acetone is even less interactive with the surface of the paint or canvas.
Will someone PLEASE clean the mona lisa
For those who are wondering, they cleaned a copy of the Mona Lisa made by one of Da Vinchi’s students, and here’s a side by side comparison:
CLEAN THE FUCKING MONA LISA.
A couple problems with cleaning the Mona Lisa:
The Mona Lisa is a glazed painting.
A Direct Painting is one in which the artist mixes a large amount of paint of the correct value and shade the first time, and applies it to the painting. A Glazed Painting is a painting in which an underpainting is painted, generally in shades of gray or brown, and a allowed to dry, before layers of very thin glaze - a mixture of a tiny bit of pigment and a lot of oil - is applied to the surface. Some artists, such as Leonardo, choose to work this way because it provides an incredible sense of light and illumination (look at how the real Mona Lisa seems to glow).
The Mona Lisa is an incredible work of glazed painting, but that makes it fragile, so fragile that many conservators don’t want to work on it because it’s extremely difficult and a conservation effort go wrong for many many reasons. One of the reasons it could go wrong is that the glazes and the varnish layers are actually a very similar chemical composition, and a conservator could accidentally strip off layers of glaze while removing the varnish.
In fact, in 1809 during its first restoration when they stripped off the varnish, they also stripped off some of the top paint layers, which has caused the painting to look more washed out than Leonardo painted it.
The Mona Lisa also has a frankly ridiculous amount of glaze layers on it, as Leonardo considered it incomplete up until he died, He actually took it with him when he left Italy (fleeing charges of homosexuality), meaning it never even got to the family who had commissioned it, and instead constantly altered it, trying to get it just a touch more perfect every time. That makes it really fragile, with countless layers of very thin paint, many of which have cracked, warped, flaked, or discolored. It’s not just the top layer, its layers and layers of glazing throughout the painting that have slowly discolored or been damaged over time.
Speaking of damage, look at the cracking. That’s called craquelure; it happens with many painting’s (even ones that aren’t painted with this technique) because the paint shrinks as it dries, or the surface it’s painted on warps. Notice that the other painting has very little of it, even though it’s almost the same age.
The reason the Mona Lisa has so much craquelure is because Leonardo was highly experimental, almost to the point of it being his biggest flaw. There were established painting techniques, and then there were Leonardo’s painting techniques. The established painting techniques were created in order to insure longevity and quality, but Leonardo didn’t stick to any of them. This has made his work a ticking time bomb of deterioration.
Don’t believe me, check it out:
This is how most people think The Last Supper looks
But this is actually a copy done by Andrea Solari in 1520.
The actual Last Supper looks like this:
The Last Supper has been painstakingly and teadiously restored, with conservators sometimes working on sections as small as 4 cm a day. To get to it you’ve got to walk through a series of airlocks (AIRLOCKS!?!?!) and they only allow 15 people at a time because the moisture from your breath and your skin particles will damage it. Despite all of the precautions and restoration, it still looks like that.
This is because Leonardo painted the last supper using highly experimental methods. He didn’t use the traditional wet-into-wet method that fresco painters used, and insead painted onto the dry plaster on the wall, meaning the paint did not chemically adhere. Before he even died the painting had already begun to flake. It’s a miracle it’s still there at all.
They’ve done what restoration they can on The Last Supper because the painting will absolutely disappear if they don’t. The Mona Lisa, which is delicate, but much more stable, doesn’t need the same kind of attention. And, like many of his works, is just too delicate to touch, and the risk of doing irreparable damage to it is far too high. The Mona Lisa is insured for something like 800 million dollars, and that’s a lot of money to be ruined by one wrong brush stroke. (fun fact: the most expensive painting ever sold was also a Leonardo, the Salvator Mundi, and it went for 450 million dollars.)
Furthermore, there are probably only 20 or so authenticated Leonardo paintings in the whole world. If you look through the list, most of them aren’t even fully done by him, are disputed, or aren’t even finished. It’s simply too difficult and too risky to restore the Mona Lisa, one of Leonardo’s only finished and mostly intact works, when there’s hardly any more of his paintings to fall back on.
Now the painting you see in the video above is 200 years old, not 600 years old, and I assure you, the conservators decided the risk to restore it was minimal (after extensive research, paint testing, x-raying, gamma radiation, etc.) and that the work they were doing was worth the risk based on the painting’s value.
Conservators make the decision all the time about how much they can do for a painting, because really, they have the ability to completely strip a painting of all varnish and glazes and just repaint the whole thing (which happens to a lot of badly damaged paintings, especially when there’s no way to save them - one of the very small museums in my area recently deaccessioned a Monet because it was barely original, and no one wants to look at a Monet that’s only 20% Monet’s work) - but doing that to the Mona Lisa, removing the artist’s hand from the most famous piece of artwork in history? Hell No.
(also, I’m not a conservator but I’ll be applying to a conservation grad program sometime next year, so sorry if any of my info is at all inaccurate)
I found this really interesting, thanks for sharing.
My first decorative painting completed. It looks ugly as hell, but at least it’s done now and I can move to next project.
That feeling...
When you’ve been at school from 8am to 8pm. I can tell you it’s not a nice feeling.
Few photos from 2017, or to be more precise from autumn. We’ve done quite many things this semester and now starts a new year with new things to learn. Happy new year to all!
In the middle you can see the finished painting, and for comparison on the left is the picture without the finishing touches. I also wanted to include one artsy photo, so hence the last photo. Today the painting was dine as secco.
Yesterdays fresco painting practice. Unfortunately I didn’t finish the painting, so today the practice continues as secco painting.
Today visting ELKA for some research work, hopefully we have time to read trough all the documents...
Yeah, haven't really updated anything here lately, because for some reason I am not able to post pictures here... So yeah that's really fun. But I am doing ok in school although all my assignments/ works are late, but most of our class is the same so maybe everything is ok.
Malala really is a class act for standing up against the horrors many women and girls face around the world. She needs to be protected at all costs, bc the world needs more people like her.
A Hero.
What the Signs Eat
Aries: rocks
Taurus: enough pb&j to feed a small town
Gemini: candy and caffeine
Cancer: home cooked meals.. especially if they’re not the one doing the cooking
Leo: birthday cake and chicken nuggets
Virgo: green stuff??
Libra: the occasional fancy meal and ramen the rest of the time
Scorpio: dick
Sagittarius: absolutely anything. The greasier the better
Capricorn: cardboard
Aquarius: individually-packaged Japanese snack food
Pisces: crayons
Yep, so... here are some examples and models for our wood turning and carving class. And I am already wondering how am I supposed to do anything like these pieces!?
First day of the school behind and the second day still ahead of me... (and the rest of the semester as well...)