conservation
Find below the portfolio projects related to conservation:
Mrs. Daydí Pastel portrait by Fèlix Mestres
Conservation of pastel drawing on paper and cardboard by Spanish painter Felix Mestres. Portrait of Mrs. Carolina Daydí. Dry cleaning, mould removal with HEPA vacuuming, in-painting of foxing stains.
Workshop: Match your Infill (The Hague, 2024)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Lecture: ‘Diving in wet treatments’ 2nd edition (IPCE).
First edition of the confernces cicle Re-Enpapelamos was held solely in-person. This year it is repeated free and on-line. ¿Which are the main benefits of bathing? ¿Do wet treatments justify the potential drawbacks involved in them? Let’s see it in five diverse artefacts, washed from least to major degree: a pencil drawing, a gouache, two hand-coloured technical drawings on tracing paper and one pastel drawing.
Course: Match your infill (London, 2024)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (Tartu, 2024)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Map by Blaeu cartographers
Conservation of 17th c. map by Blaeu dutch cartographers, 1630 Hand coloured print with gouach and golden paint. It had kraft paper patches and discolouration caused mainly by light exposure. The conservation treatment consisted on dry cleaning, old repairs removal, wet cleaning (slanted capillary wash) and flattening.
Session: Use of paper pulp on paper conservation (Amsterdam, 2024)
Questions and answers session about the use of paper pulp in paper conservation. Dry application, wer, on suction table, manual and leaf-casting machine. Discussion of types and qualities, and how to adjust the colour.
Pencil drawing by J.A.D. Ingres
Conservation of pencil drawing by J.A.D. Ingres. Pencil drawing on woven paper with discolouration and foxing stains, tears, insect depositions. Dry cleaning, mechanical removal of depositions, wet cleaning, chemical treatment and reinforcement.
Woodblock print by Albrecht Dürer
Woodblock print "The holy trinity", by Dürer, 1511. Removal of recent patches, wet cleaning, chemical treatment, deacidification, tear mending and losses infilling.
Course: Match your infill (Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (Prague, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your Infill (Art Institute of Chicago, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (València, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Techniques, materials and products to infill an in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, digital retouch, colour, tips and tricks for retouching.
Course: Match your infill (Leiden, 2023)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Mould casting of textures (either acrylic or cellulose powdered based), matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Conservation of plan on natural tracing paper
Proudly showcasing the conservation treatment of such a stubborn tracing paper: folds and wrinkles appear white due to loss of translucency. Before and after photos are taken with a black background, so that you can judge the results on the whitish parts.
Conservation of Game-Boy box
Original box for Game-Boy by Nintendo with wrinkles, tears, and pressure-sensitive label. Minimize as much as possible the damages and remove the price label.
Course: Inpainting and Loss Compensation on Paper Conservation (Oslo, 2022)
Techniques, materials and products to infill and in-paint. Use of micro-powdered cellulose in paper conservation, mould casting of textures, matching colour with paper pulp, dyes and colorants, colour, light, tools, criteria, un-restoration, digital retouch, tips and tricks for retouching.
Conservation of varnished map
Conservation of an oversized map, varnished and with a linen backing, dated 1906. Varnish removal with gels, backing removal, capillary washing, tear mending, infilling, lining, flattening, retouch, varnishing and finishing (tapes and slats on edges).
Conservation of renaisance astronomy book. A stiff board parchment binding with slotted spine
Conservation of rennaisance astronomy book. Conservation of stiff-board reverse parchment binding with slotted spine. Clavius was a reputated astronomer, contemporary to Galileo Galilei.
Conservation of cartoon drawing by Quino
Conservation and flattening of a cartoon drawing by Quino using the same paper for the infill of the loss.
