Restoring The Faceless Painting Part 1

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Over the past 25+ years as a conservator, I've come across plenty of interesting and challenging projects that require creativity, tenacity and humility to complete. But in all of the obstacles I've faced, none has been as heady as this faceless painting.
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[katrinkabuttlin]

Okay, YES. Featuring Kit and the owner is SUCH a good move! Love seeing this!

[Dusty_Ham]

"Very astute observation" I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. You guys are all such treasures.

[apollion]

"Kit is proud to have won the tack removal process" got a big laugh and a thumbs up 🙂

[mertfox]

I am glad to see that Kitt is now more involved with the procedures. Her humor and spunk are very healthy to see. Keep her in the videos. She's a great artisan.

[lauriivey]

Love Kit's comedic relief against you drier humor ... Nice switch up in the routine. And looking forward to the repair of this one

[axelackens]

I'm not just watching your video out of interest only,
I'm also watching it to improve my English,
your speaking speed matches my comprehension speed.

[talamioros]

Hooray Kit! and more--THE OWNER also gets a part in the vid?? This is great! Now we can hear the interplay of owner's vision and conservator's methods

[XYGSteve]

I don't know anything about the prices of art (for purchase) nor for restoration, but just watching you and Kit scrape adhesive for hours leads me to believe that the cost to restore this piece will far surpass the purchase price of a painting with a ripped face.

This is also the reason why I suspect that museums must have in-house conservators, outsourcing must be too expensive to be practical on a regular basis.

[nedlindstrom]

A craftsman passing on his trade, seeing the apprentices skill and confidence, being honed becoming as sharp as the teachers is well just magic. Thank You.

[loravura]

Unfortunately, BetterHelp has some very concerning practices regarding patient privacy and counselor competency. Excited for this project though!

[elberethreviewer]

As a painter, if one of my pieces was this badly damaged, I would understand it being thrown away. I'm also thankful for people like you.

[emmabroughton]

The next part of this cannot come quickly enough! Thank you, Julian and Kit.

[coreySLC]

I have never encountered this level of pushback regarding a sponsor. Clearly you struck a nerve! How impressive that your subscribers think so highly of you (myself included) that they voice their displeasure directly rather than just move on and you never know why.

[SenorTucano]

Scraping, scraping, scraping…. Another slow descent into madness

[gwencrable]

I love in the beginning when Kit was like, glad you volunteered 'cause I'm out.😄So happy to see her back in front of the camera. Can't wait to see how you finish this one.👍🏾❤️

[gbrooke]

I surmise that you wouldn’t have started this painting if you didn’t have a clear plan to success for the face. it’s nice to see you and Kit working together again on camera.

[tinlizzie]

Yes, descent into madness! Oh My Goodness. My heart is breaking at each chunk of canvas that disappears because it wasn't done correctly the first time. This one will be a necessity to see it to the end.

[Rozmere]

KIT!!! I'm so happy to see Kit back! Kit we love you! <3 <3 <3 <3

[dawsie]

It was mind boggling at how much damage someone did to the painting, I’m so looking forward to seeing this picture come back to life, thank goodness this artist has painted so many pictures along this theme that they can use his other works to make this picture come alive and tell the story he had tried to capture.

[jennastephens]

This painting and its consevation remind me a lot of my field, cartography. We never just make stuff up when data is missing, even when we're 99% certain of what should be there because we can never be completely certain. In our case, our clients really need accurate maps (I mainly make maps for mega wind and solar farm installs) to get planning permissions, to know what access they have, to know what is there already, to know what they'll need to purchase, etc. We just don't nessessarily know the original feature as we don't know the orignal intent of the artist (in this case, the artist is a farmer putting up fences deep within rural America, but you get what I mean)