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Painting Restoration Definitions

PAINTING RESTORATION Definitions Art Restoration:  The repair or renovation of pieces of art which have been damaged or have normal aging or decay to bring the works to a state that more closely resembles their original undamaged appearance. Cleaning:  This is one thing that has brought us paintings that have been damaged by unskilled “restorers” or do-it-yourselfers. […]

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Art Restoration Houston

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  This is an example of restoring oil paintings that need more than cleaning. As you can see there is a small area on the top left which still needs to have a paint touch up which in “our circles” is called in-painting.  You may wonder how to clean an oil painting. We say, keep wondering. […]

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Oil Paintings – with Tears

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When you have a painting with tears, we will be happy to restore it.  We don’t recommend that you take the risk of doing this yourself. If it is a modern painting with a  sharp cut, that restoration will be less complex than the restoration of an antique painting with a torn brittle canvas.  Over time, canvases […]

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Oil Painting Restoration

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I have been restoring fine art oil paintings for many years and am happy to say that I have a plethora of happy customers. Many of these have become repeat customers. Those customers along with others have referred their relatives and friends. Oil paintings are very clever and manage to get damaged in many creative […]

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How to Clean an Oil Painting or Oil Paintings

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When you have a fine art oil painting that needs to be cleaned, the last thing you need to do is to attempt to clean it yourself or to take it to a restorer who does not have an established professional  reputation. If the cleaning takes off any of the original paint or tears the canvas […]

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History

Our first website was built in 2002 and has, thank God, brought us much of our business. You may have seen it at lifeonthewall.com. We will probably leave it up nostalgically for a long time. It brought us so many great customers, who we consider friends. As we restore more and more paintings, our challenge […]

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