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<p>[QUOTE="Mill Cove Treasures, post: 308119, member: 60"]Brad, I'm cringing. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post a photograph of the back of the painting and a close up of the canvas on the back. If it is a 19th century painting, the canvas may have been treated with a rabbit skin glue. Using water or other non mineral spirits can soften the glue again and you will crackle and/or damage the painting. The same things goes for genuine gold leaf frames. Using anything but mineral spirits will harm the gold. Water is not your friend when cleaning gold leaf. I don't think the first one is gold leaf. It looks like bronze powder paint with silver leaf under yellow varnish. I can't tell from the photographs if the second one is gold leaf or not. If you can take a picture of the edge from the back, it might show if there is gesso underneath. </p><p><br /></p><p>Under the general discussion board, I posted some photographs last week of some frames I just restored. Your damage looks fairly easy to fix. Please do not paint them.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>To clean the painting, do a test area in one of the bottom corners of the painting with spit. Do a very small area, 1/2" by 1/2". Make sure your mouth is clean without any food or mouth wash. Drink some water first, wait a few minutes then you can just put a q-tip in your mouth to wet it. Change the q-tip each time you go over an area again or a new area. Don't reuse the dirty side. You may have to go over it the area more than once. I've read about artificial saliva but I have never tried it. I've always cleaned my paintings with spit.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mill Cove Treasures, post: 308119, member: 60"]Brad, I'm cringing. Post a photograph of the back of the painting and a close up of the canvas on the back. If it is a 19th century painting, the canvas may have been treated with a rabbit skin glue. Using water or other non mineral spirits can soften the glue again and you will crackle and/or damage the painting. The same things goes for genuine gold leaf frames. Using anything but mineral spirits will harm the gold. Water is not your friend when cleaning gold leaf. I don't think the first one is gold leaf. It looks like bronze powder paint with silver leaf under yellow varnish. I can't tell from the photographs if the second one is gold leaf or not. If you can take a picture of the edge from the back, it might show if there is gesso underneath. Under the general discussion board, I posted some photographs last week of some frames I just restored. Your damage looks fairly easy to fix. Please do not paint them.:( To clean the painting, do a test area in one of the bottom corners of the painting with spit. Do a very small area, 1/2" by 1/2". Make sure your mouth is clean without any food or mouth wash. Drink some water first, wait a few minutes then you can just put a q-tip in your mouth to wet it. Change the q-tip each time you go over an area again or a new area. Don't reuse the dirty side. You may have to go over it the area more than once. I've read about artificial saliva but I have never tried it. I've always cleaned my paintings with spit.[/QUOTE]
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