Venetia

Today I’m happy to show you one of the paintings I’m working on at the moment. It is not signed and I can’t tell you who the artist is. I found it in an antiques shop in Munich. When I first saw it I thought this might be a nice cleaning job, I didn’t really like the painting itself and it was affordable. It’s not really my style though. But now, working on it, I somehow started to like it. It’s painted very well I think and whilst discovering more and more details it just hooked me. And besides it’s fun to work on as I make quick progress. Even taking off only surface grime and dust it’s colors are becoming really vibrant. Have a look!

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Venetia – before cleaning
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St. Mark’s Basilica – Before cleaning

 

I’ve already made some progress on cleaning, see:

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Half cleaned
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Testing cleaning solvent

Isn’t it amazing?

I’m planning to take the varnish off and see how the colors come up then.