Mounting drawings

[Holly Snyder]

Did the pastels darken?

They most likely did, but it wasn't noticeable. However since it was greyscale, I didn't care as I would guess all values would have darkened the same amount, thus not changing the modeling or anything. I've read other posts with your concerns with various sprays darkening the blues more than other colors, which would be difficult to deal with.

Laura,

I would be interested in hearing of your procedure for mounting pastels. I would guess it would be helpful for others as well, best started as a new thread?

Thanks for your comments,

Holly

[Laura B. Shelley]

I'll go make a new thread for the mounting procedure.

I guess there must be a lot of different dry-mount adhesives! I'd assumed they were all the same, but I've never had it done myself.

[Sharon Knettell]

There is quite a lot of material on mounting works of art and it can be quite confusing. Let me start with this article I posted on securing pastels (among other conservation concerns) to a substrate to minimize the damage from movement: http://www.bmi.net/knapp/iapsmerrill.html

Followed by an article refering to THAT article by the Connecticut Pastel Society: http://ctpastelsociety?usefullinks?html

Add to that: http??www.nybooks.com/articles/6051

I cannot for the life of me get the URL of Talas to work. It is a conservators supplier of tapes adhesives etc. . It discusses and sells Beva products. Do a search tor Talas on Google and click on the site and then click on adhesives.

[Holly Snyder]

Ah, more light bedtime reading I see. Seriously, thanks for the links - it seems conservation is near and dear to your heart. I had problems with some of the links however. The first one is simply www.bmi.net..., the second and fourth links I'm not sure about?

Holly

[Sharon Knettell]

[QUOTE=Holly Snyder]Ah, more light bedtime reading I see.

Ah yes. Better than bodice rippers.

I am a computer neophyte. I have not learned all the cutting and pasting and have to write all the URLS by hand and I always miss a dot or two.

I fixed the first URL, so the rest of the post may seem clearer.

The Connecticut Pastel Society has a link to a panel maker that has a reversible heat activated glue on it. I was curious as to what that might be and I found a discussion of Beva and a website that explains and sells it.