damaclese

my friend i dont think you need to do this i belive this problim has ben publicly sorted out put them back but you will have to edit you old post to put the picture back in

Pleas every one i love this thread! the pictures are spectaculer and to me are litil windows in to were you all live and traval it brings a grater leveal of intamace to are conections and i value that i cant see how this hurts any one and if Jerred needs us to clear the decks so to speek he will tell us of his own acord

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momoese

Paulo, I thought about you when I opened this month's Bark magazine and found an article about the Norman Rockwell exhibit called "Behind the Camera" There are several images containing dogs that he painted that they show in the magazine that are really cool. I'm trying to find them online but in the meantime here is a look at the exhibit.

Norman Rockwell Museum|Archive|Behind the Camera

damaclese

yes im vary familure with his work as a kidd my Grandmother use to have a supscription to the Saterday Evening Post i would look at the covers endlasly
i was perticulerly intraseted in Rockwells ues of cute and oftin iconic ideams of amrican culture of the 40 50 and 60 i was vary influenst but not as much as with Tomes Hart Benten he lived not far from were i grew up and my high school had a rather larg colection of Bentons as he was a big supporter of my school and donated the colection i was vary fotunat to have meet many famous artist in my chiald hood as Kansas City not a well known fact that many lived there in the 40 threw 60 becaus of the Mission Hills district (not to be confused with Mission Hills Ca)

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CookieCows

I LOVE THIS ONE!! I love rocks and boulders, mountains and water! I love the north west. I miss the Rogue River.

We have a great big picture in our living room of Mt. Shasta that is painted on cardboard back in the 40's or 50's by a friend of my husband's grandfather. I worry about it being on cardboard!

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damaclese

sounds like its vary dear to you hart

I would worry about it being painted on card board too as this typ of paper is not desinde to be uesed for exstended time its laced with acids that were uesed to brake the wood pulp down in to smale threds caled fibrils ones this is don they will tangal more easaly forming the craft paper that is tipicly uesed in card board if the painting is valubal to you i would cunsalt a art conservator that spealises in paper restoration there are some things they can do to stabalise the paper its worth it if the painting is valubal how they do this depends on its age and what medeam has ben uesed to paint with if its pre 1900 you are probly safe as the papers uesed back then were fairly acid free but modern papers have to be put threw a bath of sodeam Bicarbanat to nutrals the acids and make what is caled a acid free or conservation paper i ues Archech 100% cotton papers they last for hundreds of years but on the down side each pice of paper that i ues cost 18$ US and many artist are just to poor to get this type of paper

wihich bring up an inportint fact if you love art and plan to buy any work of are make sure you ask the dealer of artist what he or she uesd to make there work this may seem a bit silly but i can tell you this after you pay from 500 to 50000 dollers for a water color or drawing and then find out such as you have that it has ben done on a unstabal pice of paper and that with in 10 year it will yelow and start to cumbal under the inflowins of acids left in the paper you will want to cry this aslow gos for work being properly seeld all water colors are suseptibal to the acid that hangs in are modern industrealised atmosphir so all workd need to be behind sonservation glass treated to keep uv light out and acid air at bay of your works will yelow and fad with time i do two thinks to insur this dosint hapen i apliey wax sealer to my water colors a vary uncomin pratis put it never yelows if its mad from bees wax and then i make sure that i ues good glass and seal the back of the pating with all conservation matireals dont for get tap it has acisd in it to get acid free taps and the art boards youed to mat your work must be acid free sorry i know you asked a siple question its not coplicated but it is hardt to exsplane in texst

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CookieCows

Your explaination was good. I'm ignorant of this subject. We don't collect art except for afew things painted by family members which aren't worth anything to anyone but us. We try to carry on the personal touch to everything, like the frame for this one is very simple that my husband made with a neighbor telling him how to do it. We did go in and talk to the owner of an antique store once and he said basically the same thing you did. We've ignored the situation for now because of what kind of $$ this could cost if anything can be done at all. I think someone wrote the date on the back and we can see if it goes back far enough to be acid free. I know there is a little story handwritten on the back telling about this painting being bought for a couple pennies and some land traded between the two friends. I just took some pictures of it and will post it.

Deb

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I don’t say much but that is also the way I fell.!

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Dalmatiansoap

Course, this is a great pleace for meeting other peoples, pleaces and cultures.
Why ruin something like that?

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CookieCows

I think everyone is jumping the gun by deleting pictures. I don't post very many but the last year I pulled them in from photoshop because that is where they were. No one told anyone to delete photos. I saw it merely as a decussion that was put out there.

I won't be able to post the picture of Mt. Shasta until tomorrow. My computer froze and now I have the grandkids here that have taken my computer over.

Deb

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CookieCows

I'm not good at taking pictures and I need a new camera! The glare is from the window. I did learn something today that I didn't know before. It's not painted on cardboard! My mother-inlaw has always just called it cardboard and maybe it's sort of like cardboard. Do you remember that thin pressed board that would be on the back of old console TVs, or what they made little kid record players out of. It is sort of like almost pressed board but if you break it in half it is like glorified cardboard that might even have some sort of fiber made up in it. Anyway, it's oil based paint, painted on that, in around 1942. It's looking faded and dirty and at some point, push is going to come to shove and we'll need to take it somewhere to have someone look at it.

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Our old village. One of rare with traditional stone white roofs.

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momoese

From today's AKC agility trial held under a pavilion on a rainy day. Getting a good exposure was not easy today!

damaclese

thanks for sharing this piture with us it looks to be in good condstion to me
if you want to clean it you can take Q-tips dipped in distild water and lightly and slowly clean it in smal serculer mostions taks time but it will clean the dust off the surfice but if you rub to long and to hard it can lift the varnishes that most artist ues to seel there work but looking at it id say its not been seeled as it would have yellowed by now and it doint look yelloed to me at all as a mater of fact for 1942 it looks almost brand new id say the board its on it probly some sort of fiber board mostly mad of pine fiber which out of all the wood you could use is vary acid if that fram is pine you sould take ot off emideatly it will ruin the painting over time the best woods to ues for frams are tropical they are fairly nutral like teek or mahohany i ues only mahogan frames no pine or ash or charry paer percimon or any other fruit woods theas are all highly acidic in nature if you do desice to replace the fram make sure that just becaus it looks like mahogany that it is in fact thers alot of cheep pine frams dyed to look like mahogany thats how they keep the cost down

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conejov

Mitchel those pictures look great. Im sure you might have answered this before but what equipment did you use to take these?

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Thanks Alex, for these I used a Nikon D90 and a 75-300mm lens.

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momoese

That made me laugh out loud Ante! Thanks I needed a laugh!

CookieCows

Oooh ..... well, there was a white film across the picture from the glare so I clicked on 'auto fix' and it made the colors so much prettier!! It really looks somewhere in the middle of the original photo and the vibrant color one. But it IS in good condition, I hope for the age and all the unknowns about it. It is turning a sort of yukky color on the low sky line on each side of Mt Shasta and into the trees to the left. Ric made the frame and he thinks it's oak and then he rubbed a stain on it. If we need to take it off we surely will. I've learned so much in these few posts from you!! I will take a q-tip and some distilled water and rub just a little on a corner and then let it sit for a month or so and if nothing happens I'll do a little more.

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