huntingtonlibrary: The #ProjectBlueBoy gallery experience is almost complete. For the last few month

huntingtonlibrary:

The#ProjectBlueBoy gallery experience is almost complete. For the last few months, conservator Christina O'Connell has been working on inpainting, a process in which new conservation colors are added to areas where the original paint is lost or missing.

As part of the ethics involved in the profession, any paint added by the conservator is easily reversible and separated from the original surface of the painting by a layer of new varnish; and the conservation colors added during inpainting are carefully mixed to match in color, texture, and transparency.

To see the delicate process in person, stop by this Thursday for the final day of scheduled conservation work in the gallery. Starting Oct. 1, Blue Boy will be off view and in the conservation lab for final analysis and inpainting. More details here: https://www.huntington.org/project-blue-boy