How to Keep the High-end Portrait Fresh Forever? (Part Two)

Second, it’s the best to place the high-end oil painting in the environment which is exposed to the natural light. If it’s stored in a light-proof place for a long time, the color layer of oil painting will turn out yellow phenomenon. If it’s exposed in the light for a long time also, the picture will have crack phenomenon. If your collections have already had some situations of yellow, dark or cracking, your artworks will lose its original artistic value and be depreciated at the same time. At this time, you should need the professionals’ help to amend them.

Furthermore, some conditions like a certain temperature and humidity are required in the high-end oil painting collection. In the house environment, we’d better put our collections in the room with small temperature and humidity changes to prevent the dramatic change of the environment. The most inadaptable places for storing the oil painting are kitchen, bathroom, balcony, and bedroom. Oil painting should be hung in the house of visible sunlight but not direct sun shot. When hanging, hoist the upper end to make it front tilted. That can prevent the surface undertaking a large amount of ash.

In fact, the reservation of oil painting collection is not so complicated. As long as we keep an appropriate environment, no matter how many the collections are, we can still keep them very well.

How to Keep the High-end Portrait Fresh Forever? (Part One)

Referring to oil painting, the most concerned problem is how to reserve it well. Nowadays oil painting has become the new favorite of artwork collection. It doesn’t only decorate the house environment, but also have the characteristics of preservation and appreciation, especially now more and more people will buy the custom-made portrait of themselves to hang on the walls of their villas or office.

Although the preserving time of oil painting is longer than the one of photos and it’s not afraid of the wind and the sun. Insiders also rarely talk about it. If it’s under the long-term sun exposure or get wet in the rain, it still needs special care to prevent the happen of oxidative changes.

First, like people, oil painting is born with a strong or weak foundation. What does that mean? It means that the canvas backing, the deployment of raw materials and the painting techniques have a great relationship with the life of the works. For the excellent works of the professional artists, the authors tend to attach great importance to this issue; therefore their works always have strong foundations. As the holders of high-end oil painting, we should have a further understanding to our own collection to solve the maintenance problem.

The Introduction of Oil Paint and Tools (Part B)

1. Pigments are divided into minerals and chemical synthesis. The initial pigment is mostly mineral pigment which is grinded into fine powder manually and harmonize only when it's used to paint. Nowadays, the pigments are produced massively by factories and loaded into tin tubes. Pigment species are also increasing. The performance of the pigments are related with the chemical composition. When mixing the color, chemical action will make some adverse reaction between the pigments. Therefore, to master the performance of the pigments are helpful to fully play the painting skills and make the works enduring. 
2. Brush. Usually the brush is made from animal wool and it includes several types like peak round type, flat front flat type, short front flat type and fan type etc..
3. Painting knife. It's also called palette knife, made from elastic stalloy. Sharp shape and round shape are two types of palette knife which is used to mix the pigments on the palette. Many artists would also use the knife as brush to paint on the canvas directly or paint some skin text partially to increase expressive force. 
4. Canvas. The standard canvas is to tight the linen or canvas on a wooden frame and use the glue or oil mixed with white powder to brush on it afterwards. Usually we will make the canvas oil-proof and has a certain grain effect, or make it half oil absorb or completely oil absorb under the needs of creation. Rough or fine of the grain effect can be decided according to the size of the picture and the painting effect. Some painters would like to use the besmeared canvas which is easy to unify the color tone of the picture, and they can reveal the impression unintentionally while painting. After the besmeared process, the oil-proof wood board or cardboard can also replace the canvas.
5. Glazing. Glazing is used to keep the picture gloss and prevent the air erosion and scale after the painting finished. 
6. Frame. A piece of complete oil painting includes the frame, especially the realistic painting. Frame is the boundary of the works showing to the viewer, which makes the picture complete and concentrated. The objects in the painting develops horizontally in the view's feeling. The thickness and size are depending on the painting's content. The frames of classical paintings are mainly made of wood and gypsum, while the frames of modern paintings are mostly made of aluminum alloy.