Care & Supports

Oil paintings do not like direct sunlight. An ideal place for them is a room with ambient lighting. Incandescent bulbs also adversely affect the quality of the painting. Varnish of course protects the paint, but not to that extent. Under the direct sun, it could begin to fade.
Never hang a picture near a stove/oven - it will be very difficult to clean a picture from soot. Air temperature changes may “kill" the painting. Please, do not hang the painting close to the heating appliance. Due to constant exposure to high temperatures, paint may start to crack.

Don’t put oil paintings under glass - this has a detrimental effect on their quality, since it creates a greenhouse effect

You can clean the painting from dust and dirt with an ordinary soft cloth so as not to damage the paint layer. Best suited special cloth for monitors and glasses. Formerly, velvet was used for this purpose. The rag should not be too wet so that the base of the picture (canvas) is not soaked with water. Excessive abundance of water can soak the ground.
Please be very careful, don’t scratch or push on the back side of the canvas to prevent damage to the protective layer of varnish from the front site of painting.

This happens with humidity changes in the rooms. Do not be afraid of this. Place painting on a flat, clean surface with the image down, and wipe the back of canvas with a wet cloth. You do not need “to fill the painting with water”, make sure that the water does not flow from the rag in streams and that no puddles form on the canvas. Just slightly moisten with water - the canvas will immediately stretch evenly. It is necessary to leave the painting in this position until it is completely dry. If this procedure was not enough, then you need to contact a specialist in a framing workshop.

The method is the same as with sagging canvas (see above number 6). The difference is that there is no need to wet the entire canvas surface, it is enough to wet only the damaged area. If the dent is deep - after the painting has dried for the first time, wet the dent again.

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