restoration..okay i can do that..

so the apartment hunting is still going on..seems there may be a contender. and yes..there is a STOVE. hurray. but the art continues. this painting was randomly brought to me thru my aunt in jersey. her friend loves it and kept it outdoors where, unfortunately it became a slave to the elements. the floral motif was slightly visible, dirtied and worn. my aunt has much faith in me and volunteered me to restore the painting. i thought it to be way easy at first..."oh yea, i can restore it..no problem" well not as eay as i thought. this woman loved this painting and wanted it to appear as it did originally. originally....hard to see the details that were original. so came the improvising. turns out the painting was freehand which is awesome, but the inner circular band was never centered. and me...in all my perfectionist glory, was completely thrown off by the unbalanced motif. anyway i let myself unwind and slowly move away from the ancient mathmatical circle drawing tool that was my fathers in his art director days, and i allowed myself to go with it. i think it turned out ok. i tried to keep some of the antique-yness to it which wasnt easy. and there was alot of prep to this piece being that the surface was so dirty and bumpy. but in the end im adding restoration to my list of know-hows. maybe not metropolitan museum of art restoration..but def ericas basement apartment restoration.