How to Clean Artwork

Video Transcript

"Hi, welcome, everybody. I'm Lars Erik Robinson, and my company is LarsERArts, All-Around-Art-tainment. Today I thought I'd talk about how we clean our art and finer art. If you already have your piece framed, and right after you've done it, normally you don't have to worry about cleaning your finer art, and that's the best way I recommend to keep it clean. But if you would ever have to take the piece out of the frame and clean it, one way to do it is actually to take a dry brush, that's a, that you could actually just go on top of it and get into the crevices of it, push in, and push out, and just like dust it off, if it's actually a painting that you don't have framed. Usually that takes care of it, if it's an oil painting, you would actually take, you could take a sponge and put a little, dip it into some soap, water, soap, water. Dip it in there, squeeze it out, and just take it and go from one corner. Try it in one corner first, so rub it there. If nothing happens in that corner where you know it's going to be framed, you're really lucky that you can go all over it. But just apply it on there gently. You could also take a Q-tip, for example, and just rub it with a cleaner, there's a certain cleaner out there that you can get, you can research how to restore oil paintings, there's different resources that you can use for that, and you basically just rub it from one corner to another. And that's what they've done for Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. They've sat there and just cleaned it and rubbed it off gently from one corner to the next and it's an amazing process that they go through. Well, I hope that gave a little more understanding what it is to how to clean your projects."