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Well we've had the dog sitting on a canvas; browsing through Facebook today, when I should have been doing something more useful, I came across a thread by George O'Hanlon from Natural Pigments (a very useful site for those painters interested in the technical stuff: I know not everyone is). He reported a painter whose picture had developed a bloom (because it had been hung next to a laundry room) - don't know if this has ever happened to yours. Anyway, although the painter knew an art conservator, he Googled the problem, and found an answer on Wet Canvas....
Now here is why you should be very careful about advice from Wet Canvas.
He was advised to try a coat of Three-in-One oil - the stuff you might squirt over your bicycle chain. It's spindle oil plus, basically - a good product: for cleaning rust on metal; oiling moving parts on sewing machines and typewriters (if anybody still has one) - again: generally metal ones. But he coated his painting with this liquid, which by the way did remove the bloom; and then he wiped it all off (except you can't: traces remain). And then he varnished it. What will happen subsequently, I have no way of knowing, though it's almost bound to yellow at the very least - but perhaps he'll get away with it. Nothing is impossible. But, if you saw the same advice, and thought of taking it: seriously - don't.
