A couple brought us this inherited painting. They liked the painting, but it had very heavy tobacca smoke on the surface. They wanted us to remove the layers and layers from the heavy smoke environment.
Antique Oil Painting Restoration Houston Our client had this portrait of his great grandmother who he had been named after that was about 135 to 140 years old. It had been in a box for about 40 years. He asked the art teacher at a school he worked at how he could get the oil […]
Art Conservation Houston – Art Preservation Houston As an art conservation and art preservation expert in Houston, Maris Salmins loves his work. Art is his passion. His passion is the art conservation and art preservation of oil paintings through restoration. His skill in oil painting restoration brings new life back to old, damaged oil paintings […]
“Maris, the work you do means a lot. I am glad you helped me to decide to save something that may have otherwise been gone. Preserving old art is important. I like the way the colors are visible but that it still keeps to the muted shades of the low daylight. I can see your attention to preserving […]
Paintings restoration service Houston is a good description. We are also conservators. Suggestion… take a look at the testimony areas of the website. You will see that we restore antique paintings in Houston and beyond. We not only do restoration for galleries, auction houses and collectors, […]
If you are needing picture restoration, Life on the Wall is here to help! Art restoration, Houston, is our passion! If you need art restoration, you know that you can trust someone who will supply you with more referrals than you probably have time to contact! Cleaning an oil painting is just the beginning of what […]
The first word you need to consider on the subject of oil painting restoration cost is “RISK.” Of course, you can always find a cheaper restorer, but you must ask yourself why they do not charge more for their service. If they are new and working out of their home with no presence in an […]
This is an example of restoring oil paintings that need more than cleaning. As you can see there is a small area on the top left which still needs to have a paint touch up which in “our circles” is called in-painting. You may wonder how to clean an oil painting. We say, keep wondering. […]
When you have a painting with tears, we will be happy to restore it. We don’t recommend that you take the risk of doing this yourself. If it is a modern painting with a sharp cut, that restoration will be less complex than the restoration of an antique painting with a torn brittle canvas. Over time, canvases […]
