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The Vargas Girl

We have put up so many contemporary silk screens recently that I decided that for this week's post we needed to do some fine art. So we are, as this week's title suggests, documenting another Vargas drawing that John worked on. This particular piece is a sketch on tracing paper. When we received it the paper was extremely creased, most noticeably in two sections that ran right though the drawing. Because of the nature of the tracing paper and the fact that the medium Vargas used was watercolor pencil, washing this was not an option nor was using John's isinglass technique. Any moisture that moved across the surface could potentially take the whole drawing with it. So John devised a strategy that used a limited amount of moisture, the flat press and the heat press to remove the creases. Pictured: The Vargas Girl before we began work. You can clearly see the two creases running through the whole drawing. John set up a small humidity chamber on the glass topped tabl

The Imaginarium of... Poster Mountain

So, we took a little hiatus the last couple of weeks because we have been swamped with projects in the back. Some of them you'll get to see on here over the next couple of weeks! For this week's blog we have a cameo appearance. Erik is a silkscreen collector who came in for a couple of days to experience what we do here at Poster Mountain. He worked with John in the conservation department on a couple of projects. This particular one is a silkscreen poster of the movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus . It was printed  by Mondo and the art is by Martin Ansin. It was donated by another collector and it will be given away via an inter-group lottery on the Facebook Silkscreen Poster Fans and Artists group. The poster had some damage that was probably caused while it was rolled. Pictured: You couldn't see the damage on this poster until I made it super big. The poster also had this same damage at regular intervals across it, which is what made John think it was dama