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Cleaning Smoke Stains Off Oil Paintings?

How would I go about and what could I use to clean smoke stains from pictures painted with an oil based paint. I don't want to remove any paint.

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March 7, 20050 found this helpful

If this is a valuable painting, or old, I would suggest you seek advice from the people who clean and conserve paintings at your local museum or art gallery. If the painting is valuable only to you, as a start you could use a warm water and mild detergent solution. This shouldn't do any harm and may be all it needs. Dip a cotton ball in the mixture and wring out as dry as possible. Choosing one spot rub the picture gently until the dirt/smoke stains start to lift. Discard the cotton wool and move to the adjoining spot with a new piece of almost dry cotton wool overlapping the clean spot a fraction.

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Keep changing the cotton wool as soon as it starts to get dirty and move methodically over the whole picture. I did this with a Victorian scrap screen and it removed loads of dirt but I just left it then - I didn't want to damage that patina of age - I certainly wouldn't have put anything stronger onto it without expert advice.

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Jo

 
July 3, 20190 found this helpful

Thank you

 

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