The oil painting portrait has been in our client’s family for generations. It was originally in Connecticut and moved around the US until it ended up here in Houston. It had quite a few cuts, abrasions, holes, spills, stains, and indented areas, plus it needed cleaning.
He brought it to our Houston oil painting restoration office filled with soot and had a hole, scratches and missing paint.
A fine art oil painting collector came to our Houston oil painting restoration and conservation service… Holes? Tears? Scratches? Dirty? Frame Damage? Abrasions? This fine art oil painting had all of these issues and needed restoration! It had been previously restored by another restorer who had just painted black paint on top of areas that […]
As we began the precision cleaning, we made a startling discovery. . The varnish used by the previous restorer was similar to thin translucent animal skin.
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It is always a blessing to find the right fine art restorer in Houston! Finding Life on the Wall online, this charming lady brought three paintings to Maris Salmins, Fine Art Restorer and Artist. She very much wanted the paintings restored and had even considered taking them to back to Italy for restoration. Before the […]
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If you are needing picture restoration, Life on the Wall is here to help! Art restoration, Houston, is our passion! If you need art restoration, you know that you can trust someone who will supply you with more referrals than you probably have time to contact! Cleaning an oil painting is just the beginning of what […]
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 […]
