Art Restoration Fail

Hey everyone, just to clarify; the thumbnail is most definitely a joke. Even with serious work, humor is a necessity, as this experience certainly shows.

If you are worried about your hands when cleaning the back, have you tried a piece of rawhide or chamois?

Flat sums up my impression

This is like watching a woman take off her makeup.....

Amazing how the "restorer" managed to destroy a work of art with such stupidity. I'm glad you were able to get all the pancake out of this poor lady.

I have a question about her bottom lip and below that lip (right side as you face the portrait). It looks to me that you could have retouched the lip to make it more defined. Also, the black area below that lip seemsto need some more cleaning and retouching so it look more like the rest of her face. Am I missing something here?

I found the “fun words” very funny at the beginning, but when I saw just how MUCH overpaint was there, I was like, Nah those words were accurately used. And the skin…..My God the original skin is so beautiful 😍

Wow! Talk about 'coming to life before your very eyes' !!!!

Minie mouse?

Nah, somebody deliberately repainted that to 'make her look prettier'.
Funny how we externalize our own insecurities… 🤔

While watching I was like “FREE HER!!!!!!!!!”

this guy just repainted over the ENTIRE PAINTING

"counting my chickens?"

"Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door" is the phrase that comes to mind as I see you slowly revealing the actual face underneath the overpaint.

The before was a flat and uninteresting portrait. The after has so much more depth and interest. I love seeing a master at work. 👏👏👏 Great job!

I watched a man lovingly destroy another misguided creature's creation. 10/10

Até a senhora da pintura esta agradecida por ter retirado aquela maquiagem horrorosa.

My favorite part is when Julian roasts the previous restorer to absolute FILTH in the most calm, classy voice possible

that was a full on makeup. poor lady time traveled to the modern times😂 now I can laugh but I was fuming while watching the process. JAIL THAT PERSON

Unrestored by Mr Bean, restored by you! 👏 👏 👏 👏

To me this looks like somebody trying to repair too much and just simply not caring about the details and trying to make it look too perfect. The thing about old art is it needs to have texture and those fine details or you just ruin it. Older oil painting can crack and look a bit gritty. It takes some real skills to repair them and keen eyes for the original details. Sometimes less is more. If you're not skilled enough to handle some of the repairs, be honest with the client.

I wonder what time period these were painted the first time.

Yes, that was nuts.

Terrible picture but this was the funniest video ever

You've done a fantastic job - conservation of artworks is no job for an amateur. I was almost angry at that ghastly overpainting and the person responsible for doing it, whose identity you have very considerately concealed. I wonder if they thought they'd done a good job ... more likely, as you suggest, that they started, got too deeply in, and panicked. That was the point at which they should just have stopped, and called someone like you in, urgently.

wow that's horrible. You weren't joking when you said paint by numbers.

That second painting was absolutely stunning!

Watching that overpainting come off was like watching someone remove a Halloween mask. She's so lovely and vibrant.❤

For some reason I fancy a Viennetta...

they tried to yaasify my girl😭

I love the fact that once you have cleaned and removed the paint from half the face, she looks like a Batman villain

they both look fine. you bashed the persons work so much i thought it was gonna be night and day. it was far from that. the persons work you undid was just fine.

this is like 2013 makeup vs. 2023 makeup

You've just removed make-up from a young American girl. Fabulous

Although it was funny, I don't think you needed to be so heavy handed in putting down the efforts of someone with less knowledge and experience. It was uncomfortable to listen to and excessive.

The way I GASPED when he cleaned the face !

Id love to see a breakdown of the mr. Bean scene where he destroys whistlers mother. How would you of handled restoring it.

Sad

Looks like came from copy michind

The fake restoration looked like Felca in "testei a base da virginia" video

Seeing both paintings together at the end warms my heart a bit. Regardless of what the actual marriage was like, the two paintings have been together for years, decades, even under harsh repainting, and now they get to be together again, renewed and whole. :,)

what year was it "restored"?

Butt chins aren't my preference either. bUT THEY JUST YEETED IT, THEY JUST YEETED IT MY GUY.

It’s like she breathes a sigh of relief once that mask of paint was removed.

I honestly have no idea why the ‘restorer’ got this painting and was like, ass two small tails, you know what will fix that? PAINTING OVER THE WHOLE THING. Like wtf your a ‘Restorer’ if you want to be a painter be a painter.

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i wonder if the original restoration was a scam or just really cheap. even though it looks bad, it was probably still a lot of work.