Tuesday Treasures - April 30, 2024

 Two pieces of art from the Goodwill Bins.

This first is a pastel with a smudged, since it is unfixed, signature. Consensus is R  _ _ _  Scott, with a possible e after the R.  It's that letter before S that throws us.  It looks rather like a capital A, but no other letters are sharp like that, and if it was a capital for a middle initial, it's too short compared to the R and the S.  It was taped to a foam board, so survived the Bins with just a few smudges.

This was only taped in a mat, no backing, so it's amazing it still looks good!  A companion by the same artist didn't fare as well, it was tattered and impaled on a golfclub.  I believe this was done in some sort of pencil.  Close examination shows no evidence of it being a print, although I may be wrong.  The paper is a textured watercolor type not usually used in prints.  Simply signed FD.

I have another wonderful painting, an antique, I got at Goodwill, but I'm waiting for olive oil soap to come in the mail tomorrow to clean it before I share.  I read up on cleaning oil paintings, which it is, and olive oil soap is recommended for do-it-yourself.  The soaps locally sold aren't olive oil based.  I'll do a tiny little bit of some dark corner to see how it works!