I love my work

[DaveHawk]

Just finished up the touch up after the conservation was completed. I need to clear coat for protection and stretch the painting back over the stretcher frame. Then I have to get to work on another painting and a porcelain statue.

 

[Danvet]

Wow, how'd you make him face the other way?

 

[DaveHawk]

I just smacked him to get him to turn the other cheek.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I bet that guy is against choose your weapon too.

Nice restoration. Really like the before and after. Amazing what talented folks can do!

 

[NChunter]

Wow, that is great work!

 

[DaveHawk]

The man in the pic's name is Robert Hazall. He owned a Textile mill in Richmond and it was burned to the ground in the Civil War. This pic was painting about 1850

 

[tarheel]

The man in the pic's name is Robert Hazall. He owned a Textile mill in Richmond and it was burned to the ground in the Civil War. This pic was painting about 1850

Burned the man's mill.....those blue bellies just loved to burn things down didn't they? What ever happened to honorable behavior in war? My great-great grandpa died in Richmond in 1862.
Nice work as always Dave!

 

[DaveHawk]

He was also good Friends with Lee, so I think he probably had a strong understanding about the war himself.

 

[noharleyyet]

Dave, you ever have any' uh oh' moments?

 

[DaveHawk]

Had one this morning as I was getting ready to put the painting back on the stretcher frame. Took a few deep breathes and figure out the solution. Nothing is written in stone doing this work and chemical situations come up often. Cleaning solutions mainly, what kid of dirt and what will remove it with out damaging the paint.

OH my son was shooting darts the other evening and when I came in the shop the next morning I saw the score card him and his friend were keeping and the painting is a few feet away from the board he set up. I let him know how irresponsible he was and what could of happened.
My son is an awesome craftsman with repairs ,and is much better then I am so he got the message LOUD and clear. So now he is thinking of school for conservation. I wounder if it is just to appease me. But he would very good at this work.

 

[DaveHawk]

I finished up the painting for my friend and we made a trade. He seems to always get the better end of the deal but I am very happy with the trade.
It's an 1830's 42 cal Percussion Fowler made by Joseph Sells from W.Va.