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Hello dear friends, today we will tell you how to take care of paintings that hang in your home or in your workplace. Paintings, like any piece of furniture, need care. Quite a variety of tips you can hear on this subject, but we’ll summarize and highlight the most basic and most simple and reliable!
First of all let’s talk about the things that can have an adverse effect on a painting
- Avoid direct sunlight on the painting.
- It is not good to put them near heaters and air conditioners.
- Paintings do not like the constant differences in temperature and humidity.
- Do not hang your paintings near stoves and ovens in the kitchen.
- In any state of painting, it is undesirable to press any objects (especially sharp ones) against the canvas.
- Paintings in oil should breathe, so do not place them under glass.
How to Clean Your Paintings
And now let’s get to the basics of caring for your painting so that it can last for many, many years.
- We get rid of dust on the painting’s front side with soft cloths, like flannel or velvet. You can use rags for wiping monitors, touch screens, or glasses. If there isn’t much dust, you can just use a dry rag to wipe it off. If it’s been a while since you’ve cleaned your masterpiece, moisten the cloth gently (not so much that it runs!) and wipe your painting without pressing.
- You can also occasionally wipe the back of the canvas with a rag or brush, though a vacuum cleaner would still be ideal.
- If the dirt is not just a light dusting, then you can wipe the painting with a soapy solution, but without the lye. Then wipe it with clean water and blot it, so that there is no excess moisture on the painting. Well, and let the picture dry. It is not necessary to scrub the painting hard so as not to damage the paint layer.
- When the painting is done in big convex strokes, it is better to use a fountain pen, which can easily wipe away every bump and depression without damaging the paint layer.
- If the soiling is significant, it’s worth consulting a restorer rather than trying to fix it yourself.
- There are cases of sagging canvas on a painting. In that case, moisten the same cloth and wipe the back side of the canvas. The canvas will be stretched evenly and you won’t see any sag or wrinkle. You can also solve the sagging of the canvas by putting wedges in the corners of the stretcher on the back side if you have a modular stretcher, of course. If you have a solid sub-frame, you will have to re-tension the painting.
Friends, that’s basically all the basic rules for taking good care of your paintings. If you want your paintings to serve you long and faithfully, then don’t be lazy to read this and, even more so, apply it, and then your painting will not lose its original beauty.
