How to Restore your Old Masterpieces on Wooden Canvases
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When exposed to excessive heat or stored improperly, the paint on an oil painting's canvas can deteriorate. This guide will demonstrate how to restore old oil painting and improve its condition.
Other online oil painting restoration guides are typically in hard-to-read instruction sets filled with insider jargon. This guide, however, is intended to simplify the process into six easy-to-follow steps with another optional seventh step.
Warning:Â Oil paints and oil paint restorers contain chemicals that can lead to injury and or death if improperly used. Please refer to the manufacturer's safety guidelines for each product. Keep paint and paint restorers off of the skin. Paint in a well-ventilated area.
Warning: Oil paints and oil paint restorers contain chemicals that can lead to injury and or death if improperly used. Please refer to the manufacturer safety guidelines for each product. Keep paint and paint restorers off of the skin. Paint in a well-ventilated area.
Use the hammer's peen to remove each nail from the painting on the frame.
Lightly remove the canvas from the frame.
Not all paintings are nailed to their frame. If your painting is attached to the frame in an alternative way, contact the framing company to discuss ways to the safely remove the frame.