Moldy Watercolor Painting Restoration | Time-Lapse 

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Absolutely wonderful work, Emily!! 🤗🙏🏼🤗

Amazing! Art and science are coming together, but mostly art! 😊😊

Amazing craftsmanship.

Silently looking for faults but leaving impressed 😄

“Japanese paper” Me: (whispering) Washi Kozo

It feels kind of like cheating

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Don't tell Julian we are moonlighting

same, Baumgartner fan here as well

@@tbnalfaro Also Baumgartner fan!

I am also a fan of Baumgartner, been following him since the beginning. I recently discovered that conservators don't really like his practices.

As IC Weld’s Isaac says, this is not the only way to do it, it’s just how I do it. Another artist in a different medium.

@@ginismoja2459Conservationists might moan about some restoration methods but his clients know what they want and if art isnt restored to allow it to be enjoyed and appreciated whats the point, have it stored away?

Fine prints can be restored too. I've seen demonstrations of restorers literally giving a print a bath in order to deacidify them and so forth. You probably couldn't do that unless the ink was oil-based though. They use many of the same techniques shown here as well such as fixing tears and missing pieces etc. I've seen them clean works on paper with some kind of powder as well...they use it dry and it gently scours the dirt from the fibers. All very intriguing stuff!

Me Too!

Clearly not watercolors.

@@picassomooon It is possible to bathe, and even bleach, watercolours. You have to be trained, educated and experienced, though.

of course it is. You can also leave the half of the mushroom culture on it and put it in the frame...

What I find absolutely gorgeous is where it could not be fully restored, they integrated the damage into the painting as a whole- Yes, you can tell it was restored, but in a way that gives the painting more character

Except it didn't look "back to original" to me. It still looks like it has significant staining from the mold, as well as missing sections.

@@markjaycox7524 That’s because watercolor is transparent, so it only goes darker not lighter. Anything that was added to the original is also pretty much irreversible because watercolor soaks into the fibers of the paper and a lot of the pigments are staining. Messing with the original could also run the risk of disturbing the original paint.

I haven't seen Julian restoring a water color painting with mold and water stain damage

That's what I was going to comment. They must not know much about watercolor to get the paper description wrong.

@@dawnchesbro4189 Lot 308 - Ben Graham, 'FUR TOR, DARTMOOR' appears to be another in this series sold for 50 pound in ireland 5 years ago. Described as a watercolour drawing.

@@erbigimbi9903 I’m not debating if it’s a watercolor painting. What myself and OP are saying is the canvas isn’t solely watercolor paper. It appears to be paper mounted on a board or another substrate. Watercolor paper doesn’t peel apart In layers like that.

Thankfully we have you here to set these novices straight. @@dawnchesbro4189

@@dawnchesbro4189 I get that, everyone is commenting on it, they said it was watercolour, not that it was actually on traditional watercolour paper or the usual mounting. I love that there is such a lively interest in this video.

I lol’d at this comment. Because that’s what I would’ve said. Thank goodness there are others who have the patience and passion to conserve and restore!

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I think that, then think I wish I had the money to pay for restoration as I chuck it.

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@@theshmoo560 you must be my soul mate, first thing I thought of as well

not watercolor, sadly.

@@paintspirationsunlimited Yeah, this looks like an acrylic wash to me. If it was true watercolour, unsealed, it'd have been rinsed out of the painting by flooding.

If Julian and this guy got into a street fight Julian would smash him!!!

@@Kevin-xi6ts I think this is a woman and not a guy haha

If Baumgartner was involved it would be three parts long and the same process over and over again. At least this woman just does it without the endless yapping.

@@dr.hankins4682 not at all - the craftsperson herself has it featured on her site also, which appears v authentic

@@rickvaiBBBnope. You have the wrong opinion.

i agree entirely! thank you for saying all this. :•)

If II tried, it would look like ecce mono.

there are people who do this type of stuff as a hobby like me this is a difficult one personally I would be very unsatisfied with the foxing left at the top of the painting this type of foxing is minerals left by the flooding an easy fix normally but this is a watercolor which complicates things and makes this damage impossible to remove. with a print or etching, I would dunk it in hot water for a short time and the foxing will be extracted into the water like the tanning of tea leaves leaving the sheet completely clean with watercolors that's impossible to do for the paint would also be extracted. great job but I'm sure the expert was probably very irritated with this type of foxing.

I so agree. People are critical on everything these days. Only because they can hide their faces.

@@tinovanderzwanphonocave544you do know the memes they make of hobby restorers’ work?

Bc mold is literally i side the paper fibers. Until they find a way to bleach it without sabotaging the paints itll stay

Pigment paint is often very resistant and it's usually the base material (paper) that got damaged, which could affect the look of the color. Molding and bonding damaging is another story though. I'm pretty sure the color is still there, it's just that re-exposing them can be very tricky. (It might be better to imagine the damaged painting to be a hidden gem, just that they are only a few microns in thickness and is extremely fragile when trying to be exposed.)

you better not be shading baumgartner restoration (Julian, my luv) 😠

@@missgurlyteengurl Interesting that you saw "shonky operators" and went there...

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@@missgurlyteengurl You just insulted him by assuming this comment was about him, soooo…

​@@Misscaitimac i dont know man, there arent really others well known, well known enough to have dislikers, art conservators on youtube. What is this middle school argument.

That’s what I want to know. How does anything they did kill the mold that’s still in it? I didn’t see anything used that would stop the mold continuing to grow and ruin it even further, particularly in the sky area. I’m not saying I know what could be done, I’m just concerned.

Now that you mention it, I agreed. Edit: I got to the end and suspect it was previously mounted on similar board as the new mounting.

Perhaps, the owner did not want to fully remove this "page" from the history of the artwork. It has suffered serious damage but survived, and this dark spot at the top is a reminder of this event. I see some similarities to the japanese kintsugi technique, where the aim is not to fully hide the damage, but to acknowledge it as a part of an item.

Watercolours are tranparent, so you can't paint over dark colurs with light ones since the dark will be visible through the light colurs.

I was wondering the same. The damage from the mold is clearly visible. Leaving it does makes sense. Thank you for clarifying.

I assumed it was because this sort of painting doors not provide for an isolation layer, so there would be no way to reverse the work later if someone in the future wanted to. That combined with the difficulty of getting a light watercolor to work over the dark seems like it would have had to cross the line between preservation and repainting.

Because watercolors are a transparent medium, any painting over the stains would still show the stains. They would have to use gouache for the opacity, but it'd be imminently obvious since gouache and watercolor have different optical properties.

yes... this one is less... I don't want be mean, but the results are just not the same. Julian is a perfectionist really.

Oilpaints and watercolours are two very different materials.

@@stormmoster He does all sorts of techniques, and materials! He has even restored scupltures, pieces made out of wax, painted on glass (from behind), repaired frames, paper, canvas... You think he wouldn't be able to paint with water colour? Plus, the retouching is only a part of the restoration.

@@nicolasfiore My point is that ou can't clean a watercolour painting the same way you clean an oilpainting. I couldn't find an video where Baumgartner cleaned a watercolour painting, can ou put up a link to one? Cancel Reply

@@stormmoster Even if so, I don't think the aspect ratio of the original and the restored one would be different. It literally lost half of the sky. There other problems too that Julian wouldn't have made, IMHO.

She might have treated it with something to kill any more spores during the process? Or maybe now the painting is dry and clean, the mould won’t come back?

I've heard that some artists from the XVIII century have already been booking their restoration by the hand of this Master (and they are still waiting) :D