The Survivor 

I know it's a meme, but "complete loss" in terms of insurance does not mean beyond repair. It only means that potential repair costs would exceed the value of the painting.

@@LizZard1988 the term has a different meaning here. While a car or other commercial product is (technically) often replaceable, a piece of art, especially a painting is unique and irreplaceable.

I mean, it’s still a complete loss. The restoration is ok, but it’s no near a valid restoration to commercial means.

Chuckle chuckle……..

Julian at the end saying he would "encourage them to revisit that assessment" was the most polite middle finger ever.

Yes I loved that addition.

Seconded

100% agree. When the final diagram popped up, I went, "Ooooohhhhh.... Yeah, that's bad."

Seriously lol!

I agree, diagrams are a little underrated and deserve more love.

For real haha

Even better, I believe he leaves full details of the restoration with the painting. Future restorers will know what the first varnish was made from and thus know how to deal with it. No need for guessing from a video

The owner could even put a QR code with the URL pointing to this video on the back.

it's an ungrammatical and unidiomatic use of the verb _begrudge_

The alliteration ... *chef's kiss

@@DrWhom Settle down, Francis.

@@DrWhom grammar is a suggestion bro

Aggressively Added Alliteration Awes All Ages of onlookers, Allegedly.

I would love to see the owner's reaction to this. Marvelous! 😍👌

@@bellydancerjasmina5562 My thoughts exactly. I hope that someday, Julian and just the right sort of owner will agree to filming the moment as it happens.

I wonder if any of the owners watch the video of their painting's restoration? Definitely cool provenance.

I don't think he's a "dude".

@@vincentmancini6279 ...this guy has a biological son with his wife, i'm pretty sure he's a male

He, the Avatargartner

I hope he pins this comment. 😂 Bravo

the canvasbender

At 70 years old even I got this! My daughter just rolled her eyes. lol Good one.

@@kouriec6866 Yes I am thank you. lol👍

When things are dire, you use very risky, strong tools. That's what the hot air pen is.

@@JackHudler Yes. Risky for the work that he is doing, mate, not in general. As he says *in the video*, heat is very potentially dangerous to paintings, and that heat, via fire, is what caused the damage in the first place. If he had any other method at hand he'd have used it first, rather than utilized heat directly on the paint to soften it and then manually depress it with a silicone spatula, because of how careful he needs to be with it.

@@JackHudler I'm sorry; I can't take anyone seriously that uses the tools of their trade to singe a single leg off of an 🐜 and then tries to barter that bullsh*t for YT clout

I’m wondering what hot air pen he used, I think I’d like to buy a similar one. Julian, if you read these….

@@thelaco951 looks like a Weller WAD101. They're quite expensive, Hakko is a good alternative if you still need an air pen 9 months after posting lol

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It’s just ok tho. Still a complete loss

It's. Not. A. Lost. ..it's. A come. Back...👍

@@edwardtranfaglia8397 Like the Phoenix

In Japan they sometimes fix a broken pot by filling and emphasizing the crack with pure gold. This painting is not a loss, it's a phenomenal save.

I wish we could've gotten their reaction

@@Karmy. I KNOW, RIGHT?

Based on the clues he provides the owner was probably a reseller or auction house. So this was probably more a financial thing.

@@invalleria I think it was a little bit of column A, little but of column B; remember that the coat of varnish over the paint also is what is going to take the brunt of the damage, so removing it will also remove a lot of the surface-level damage. That doesn't mean that doing so doesn't slightly obfuscate damage to the paint layer at a glance either, as you say, though.

Gotta wonder if they have like a little forum somewhere where they geek out over restoring certain conservation celebrities.

Seeing the little deer at the end was my favorite part too!

You should buy some thrifted banged up furniture or little picture frame and repair it. Take a before and after pic and show all of us. :D

absolutely am with you on this

I to have mention Julian to my therapist

Julian IS a therapist. I wonder if he's in my PPO network?

There's his voice, and the slow, repetitive nature of the work, and the beauty of the result... If that soothes you, maybe you should consider a craft of a similar nature, like embroidery, lace-making, or, yes, painting, colouring, but also some woodworking (with all the sanding, polishing, varnishing), and probably dozens more I am not thinking of.

@@stereonacht2247 i love art!!! I used to learn wood work and pottery and painting in college (liberal arts student) and it always made me feel so much better. I'm a makeup artist now and I'm always the calmest when working 💗💗

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They are literally my go-to anxiety attack ender

ikr? I always watch his videos before going to sleep, which is kinda of a shame because I don't watch part of the content lol, it is sooooo soothing, I love it

I totally agree. Stop my brain turning over for 30 mins with rabbit glue and staples. Life saver

Me too!

Totally agree!! I watch, listen and restore my mood ♥️

Watching in work lunch break to set my mind for a tough day :)

Absolutely! This does wonders whenever I'm feeling anxious or overwhelmed. Thank you!

I prefer doctor house personally, but yes.

Dr House : Lupus ... NEXT !!!

yes I would love to see how it could make some water look realistic at boiling point or something

@@chelseakisil8722 It reminds me a lot of children's books that I used to see, with textured art that was intended to do exactly that.

It sounds like it could be really pretty, but very hard to conserve years later.

It wouldn't last very long if done intentionally. Think about it--the paint is protruding off the support and is only attached around the outermost edges--totally different than thick impasto (which is still attached to the flat support).

Spray paint artists sometimes use such a technique

same here

Literally what I came here to do + de-stress.

And disagree with other conservation videos because that's not how JULIAN would do it, hmph!

@@heidi_mcheidiface oh my God.... Haha, that's *exactly* what I do!!! 😆😅

couldn't have said it better myself

Same here. Not sure I've ever had that reaction to another artist's paintings.

due to the nature of his work.... I doubt it... unless they are like a centurion

Not really. Think of all the accidental damage that can occur regardless of age like this fire damage, or water damage, or like the one that had a horrible corner tear when it was dropped.

I think the artist would not survive the ordeal.

I think livin authors dont have that much damaged And yellowed paintings

I have oil paintings done by local artists that are still alive. Paintings I found at Goodwill and such. With a famous historical well-nown artist, doubt it, because the wor has to be around a long time to appreciate it. My oil painting of a raccoon in a tacy gaudy gold frame from the late 1970s liely wont have any value. lol

I'd be curious to know which financial decision this restoration led to. I could only be reasonable that Julian's work would be compensated, but perhaps, as it was written off already, the insurance company had already given the client a compensation sum?

@@09conrado If the insurance company paid out for the painting then I would imagine that the painting now belongs to the insurance company. They would be the ones requesting the conservation with a view to being able to re-sell the painting and recouping some of their losses from paying out.

@@cresswga I'm not sure this would necessarily be true, I know art and cars are different but when both the bumpers on my dads car were broken in an accident, it was deemed 'written off' because new bumpers would cost more than the value of the car, so the insurance paid out the compensation for a new car but my dad still got to keep the old car and it still belonged to him

@@bonniecole130 If the paint bussiness is like the car bussines, damage or total loss = company pays you the damage (be it partial or total) and the damaged/wrecked item is still yours; but if it's stolen, company pays you and the stolen item now belongs to them, should it appear again - in which case they give you the option to return the money and recover the item, or keep the money and let them keep it (I know because _exactly that_ happened to my car).

@@09conrado Hi, I work for an insurance company! It could work either way. Since it was originally written off as a total loss, they probably would have received the payment for it already. But if they decided “actually I wanna try and get it restored” then they can certainly attempt to do that. But if they want to be reimbursed for the price of the restoration instead of the loss of the painting, then they would have to make sure not to cash the check for it, and send in the receipt for the restoration. I don’t know how much this painting was originally worth though, they may have been better off getting a total loss check for it. The insurance company wouldn’t take the painting from you, they think it’s trash anyway so it’s up for the customer to do what they want with it. It seems like that customer had a few different paintings that needed restoration so they probably just sent a list and photos of what was damaged to the claims department, and an adjuster said “this one can be repaired, this one can’t, etc.” Then the customer gets a check for all the damages combined. Hope that makes sense :)

I can only wish that therapists could do this much restoration of beauty to broken minds and hearts. At least we have these videos to help us get away, if only for a while...

@@toomanythings Hahaha yeah, that'd be... quite nice. My mental state could certainly be compared to a burnt and bubbled painting, just need to find someone to slowly flatten and re-secure it!

Furthermore, I would really like to know what the outcome would be when the same who wrote it off look at it now again, auctioners, insurance etc. and how its value now compares to the value before the damage. Not sure if that is even possible to happen to have them revisit this, but would be interesting for sure.

Welcome to cult, my friend. Grab your snacks and prepare to enjoy some truly classy shade while the comments section devolves into insanity.

Yes! I have to be careful if I watch his videos on my bed.

Some of the videos on Juliens channel are specifically ASMR and are particularly good if you have seen the narrated version first.

hold my bier hehe

He's one of my absolute favourite landscape painters too! Loved to see this restored

Know what I'm quoting to my therapist next week.

But people are not paintings. People are living things, capable of growth and change--and, most importantly, healing. There may always be signs of what you survived, scar tissue to mark where a wound had been, but the important thing is that you CAN survive, and you CAN heal. A painting relies entirely on the hands and the care of another to be brought back to a state of completion, while the hands and the care of others can help us become what we're meant to be.

Take in the last line of the video, too. "The painting's not just surviving. It's thriving."

Agreed! The fact that heat was both the cause and the solution to those horrific surface disruptions was fascinating.

I've seen those on reddit

Trash talking Julian?! Men, we ride at dawn.

"By the power of Washikozo!"

Look man, I'm the first one who don't know shit about this work but don't tell me that technology hasn't advanced since he was trained because this isn't true. New techniques are developed continuosly and those comments are right. Dunno about all the others

Indeed. Jealousy is a powerful feeling. I'm sure they would like a big YT channel with millions of views.

I'm guessing $5K - $10K for this type of work. Worth it depending on the value of the painting which I assume is worth way more than that.

​@@charvelgtrs being a bierstadt it is definitely worth it.

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He mentioned that he could only work on the painting for a couple of hours at a time because the level of concentration was so high. Several weeks of intermittent work probably equals a week of full time.