Caring Tips For Your Watercolor Marine Art Prints

By Walter Murray


Our home is our safe ground and our comfort zone. We must ensure that we always keep it lovely to look at and that the interior should be refreshing to our eyes. Some of the things that make it beautiful are the furniture, antiques, art paintings and many others.

Artworks are always beautiful. It adds beauty in our homes and makes our interiors look livelier and not boring. Buying some of these artworks, especially those watercolor marine art prints, and displaying them in your home is indeed a good idea.

Paintings are of different kinds and they differ in regards to the medium used. There are paintings like oil painting, pastel, watercolor, charcoal and many others. Having these items are good possessions but whatever these arts are made of, we must give it an utmost care since they are a treasure to the painter. Consider some of these methods in caring for your artworks.

Handling paintings is one most common cause of the damage of these items. When handling it, avoid touching the painting itself. Once you touch them, the natural oils in your fingers and the dirt would also transfer to the painting, which could then damage it. One way to perfectly handle these things is to use a clean gloves and touch it only on the frame.

Paintings really look good when displayed at your home but beware also as to where you would display it. Avoid displaying them in an area which directly faces the sunlight. Doing this would greatly damage the appearance of your painting. It would discolor the appearance and leaving it a yellowish and dry. Better put it in area that is dark and away from sunlight.

Remember also not to expose your paintings to a spot in you house where there is too much heat. Avoid putting it near the cooking area, back of your refrigerator or any spot where there is extreme presence of heat. The heat will absorb the moisture of your painting, and leaving it dry and unattractive.

Create also a proper storage for these items who are not on display. See to it that the storage area is dry so as not to damage the painting, that it is also clean and dust free. Make sure that the area is well ventilated and the temperature of the interior is not too hot. For those unframed ones, place it in a platform and lie it down so that it will not crumble.

Artworks would usually get dusty through time so make sure that you clean them. Use only a soft feather duster when removing the dust away from your paintings. For picture glasses, do not over spray any cleaning agent unto the glass because it might cause a bit foggy. Use a cleaner that is suitable for those types of glasses.

Avoid the do it yourself repair for paintings if you are not an expert. To be safe, consult someone who can do repairs in the framing of your painting or who could restore the painting itself. Just leave this aspect to the expert because they have wider knowledge as to how they will restore you precious arts so that it can be displayed again in your homes.




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