I am hoping you can help me or refer me to an expert in comic book
restoration.

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From: (Frank Gregory) <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: cleaning a mural


> Hi Britney
>
> What you are looking for is Damar Varnish.  Damar is a crystalized resin
> that is disolved into turpentine, usually gum turps not odorless thinner.
> It is used as an isolating layer and protective coat for oil paintings.
> It's use allows you to remove the varnish when it gets old and dirty
without
> removig the painting.  If you paint over damar, which you can do, you can
> remove your overpainting when you remove the varnish.  It is hard to say
why
> they recommended this without seeing the paintings, but a protective coat
of
> somesort is probably a good idea.  There are wax varnishes on the market
> that are beautifully flat repel dust.  I am not certain, and maybe someone
> here can enlighten me, but I believe most paintings in art museums have
some
> sort of wax on them.  As far as coating them with odorless, I'll bet they
> are recommending this as a way to clean the paintings.  I would consult
with
> a reputable painting restorer before you do anything.  One can only make
> assumptions about how the paintings were made in the first place.  If the
> artist used a medium in the paint that is soluable in thinner, you'ld have
a
> real mess on yoiur hands.  Good Luck!
> Frank  <www.frankgregory.com>
>
>
> At 12:17 PM 02/12/2001 -0500, Britney wrote:
> >I have a question.  I'm not much of an art person so any info will be
> >helpful. We are in the middle of a diorama renovation.  We had a company
> >come out, view the dioramas and give us recommendations on new exhibit
> >designs.  One of their recommendations was to use "De Mar Varnish (matte)
> >to coat our oil painting murals so that we can make touch ups on it
without
> >damaging the original mural.  Another suggestion they had was to use an
> >odorless paint thinner over the murals.  Has anyone used these materials
or
> >know anything about this product specifically.
> >
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