Frugal Tips!
 

Attention!
Gentlemen, collectors and art dealers.
After reading the post. ---- "What would it rub?" ---- Decided to write.


If you got the dust and dirt rabota.Pered how to do something with the picture (rub onions, potatoes, fruit juice, wash acids and alkalis), think about the consequences and decide how you treasured this thing, on which you will be spending exhumation.
If you do decide and fully believe in the book of the 19th century for housewives Set a recipe for "revival" of the old cloth, my humble advice, start with a small sample locations (preferably at the edge of, but not where the signature).

       But seriously, if you've already decided to do yourself, you need to be extremely careful. Anyone, even the most harmless way (water) can cause great damage to your work.
The fact that 99%of you do not know what work is covered (the composition of varnish, etc.), and not even always, the written.
 It is very possible that you do not paint vodorastvorimaya.Uveryayu every professional distinguish oil from a temperature, but can be a complex combination of different binders.
Good chance that the water may become cloudy lacquer film.
Using vodka, alcohol, pinene, acetone, etc. The probability razmolozheniya lacquer film, its partial removal (in texture painting), rinse lessirovok, remove the patina, etc.
 All options are processed in small, small parts, and only after that can be a very neat work on all fabric.

Absolutely true! "Gold, gold - a popular word ."
Step one . Cut onion , and while no one is looking - it halves to wipe the dirty surface mama pictures.
Step two . Boiling water to dissolve the powder badyagi (drugs made ​​from the same water sponge ), and carefully cover up all the bruises and abrasions. Evening left a compress on the damaged areas - in the morning should be a little one half opened eyes ...

I am sure that the this forum can not find people who are capable of that. They , at least , will not want to ruin your investment. IMHO.

"Oh, how you prepare wonderful discoveries enlightened age .."

Yeah.
And the spirit - even more ...
:)>

And as you stick a picture on the canvas, stationery glue, face to the glass ..... Working without stretcher dumped ...
:shy:>

This is exactly the case when "hi pass is not necessary" .... (already)

Little did perverts in the world?
:D>

I was surprised ... I'm not surprised at anything this one .. "collector "
saw the ax of the Bronze Age , coupled with the Scythian nazhdachkoy polished tips ... The question " Why? ? " "What would have been prettier , and then some green ..."
It is a centuries-old patina on the artifacts ..

Pecheneg, it is necessary to warn (which is not for the faint of heart) , and then on your sshoobscheniya valerian not napasessya ...
I lie almost breathless ... " nuplyavasche " (C)

I have a couple of bushes in the garden grow , share ... :)>
And as a follow-up to skazannomu.Moe one of the favorite places in the city, an outdoor museum Pedagogical University, where collected Arrivals Polovtsian stone idols , stone bab.Posledny time was in the spring of last year, and today decided to visit the "stone of friends" and was in shock . From the time the stones were covered with dust in places overgrown with moss .. Well, in general, have an ancient, picturesque, pleasant look. So they decided to clean up and put in the appropriate form , clean, like new now ... Maybe I do not understand something in the conservation of stone artifacts, but as the Japanese say , " Every thing should bear stamp time" ...

Pecheneg, I am.
(To be honest, after your stories) expect their color (or whitewashed), well, moss will grow ..
(Fu, relieved ...)

Complex question. If we start from the aesthetic views of the author famous essay "Praise the shadows", then - of course ... For polished to a high gloss kettle - guts out, his throat with a razor, and - well!
But. I can not remember who owns the next terrible rasskazka (A.A.Rybnikovu great, I think), when returned to the halls of the Hermitage after the restoration of "small Dutch" - groan stood in the ranks of the true connoisseurs of old paintings. It turns out that it was sufficient to remove a layer of dirty varnish to not only completely change the impression of the color scheme and other nonsense, but to destroy the base idea of ​​painting an entire era. About how!
A "wash or not to wash?" there is a reason for the perennial debate between two different directions in the restoration.
If you remove the pages stopisyat theoretical considerations, it is the following: Dear century - do not you dare touch it, to respect the author - is restored to its original form. (Although the experiments on the reconstruction of ancient marble sculptures paintings left mixed feelings, and themselves Kuroshio pink with golden hair reminds me of colored concrete local craftsmen on the lawn gnomes ...)

Icons of the same "open", there is a time "print time" from the darkened varnish yes candle soot formed that faces could hardly be distinguished.
No, I understand that the yellowed varnish on an old painting gives a certain charm, but underneath it is painting itself-and not seen often, that I am a "wash", unequivocally. :)>
And as collectors themselves should decide in what form in their collections will be their items - coins in a green patina or brushed, painted a picture in a darkened "Museum" form or restored to copyright paints.
By the way, the frame-all trying to restore, with a broken stucco somehow do not like to broadcast them on the walls and the furniture restoration, do not want to have the furniture in the house at the Manilow - <! - ~ 7 ~ ->

Yes, of course, open the icon , but it remains the basis of age-old , ancient timber , remove the old olifku it again and cover art, is its charm ..

Here one can clearly say so ... if patina thick, green or other lakovoblestyaschaya and then a coin preserve and lay down on the tray ... and if the coin is covered with copper oxychloride or nitrous , it must be cleaned clearly which way the chemical or mechanical, decide on the spot based on the state of the coin.