{"id":421,"date":"2025-04-15T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2025-04-18T03:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T03:17:40","slug":"421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"CARING FOR YOUR OIL PAINTINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil paintings are so forgiving and resilient or there\u2019s absolutely no way I\u2019d be able to hang out with them. (Lol). \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But really:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Painting got dusty? <\/strong>\u2014wipe with a dry, soft cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goo was flung onto it?<\/strong> \u2014wipe gently with a warm, wet, soft cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Goo more tenacious than that?<\/strong> \u2014use a bit of diluted dish soap with same wet cloth.\u00a0 Wipe clean with fresh wet cloth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Canvas got dented or baggy<\/strong>?&#8211; because someone leaned into it or it was stacked poorly with bigger\/smaller\/heavier things? \u2014just mist water onto the back of the canvas, and let dry.\u00a0 It\u2019ll tighten up on its own.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Something has STABBED THROUGH your painting<\/strong>\u2014yeeeeaaahhh\u2026you\u2019re probably going to have to bring or send it back here to me.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to have a look to know what surgery can fix it.  I can fix it for a fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*I\u2019ve never repaired a painting on board that has been splintered.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying I wouldn\u2019t try!\u2014I&#8217;m just sayin\u2019\u2014no promises. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>STORING YOUR PAINTINGS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always slot paintings upright in two\u2019s of similar sizes where possible\u2014&gt; face to face, and back to back, assuring that none are poking into the others.&nbsp; Corrugated plastic sheets (coroplas) can be purchased to go between odd sizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil paintings are so forgiving and resilient or there\u2019s absolutely no way I\u2019d be able to hang out with them. (Lol). \u00a0 But really: Painting got dusty? \u2014wipe with a dry, soft cloth. Goo was flung onto it? \u2014wipe gently with a warm, wet, soft cloth. Goo more tenacious than that? \u2014use a bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpstandard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}