Floral Still Life (board)

Floral Still Life, Charles Ethan Porter, 1880

The paintings are printed on thick cartridge paper and mounted to card with wood glue. They are covered with a HD sellotape to preserve the ink. They are treated with a coat of wood glue to emulate the texture of old varnish before being finished with matt acrylic varnish. (I hope in time the layers will yellow - if this happens and is undesirable, you will be able to peel it off and apply your own varnish to the protective tape without damage to the painting.) I have applied marks to the backs of the paintings, aged with pencil, paint, chalk and varnish.

Size: 2.7 x 2.1 x 0.1 cm

Varnish is far from indestructible. Please treat your paintings with common sense - don’t scratch, wet, or rub them, keep them out of direct sunlight, don’t expose them to excessive warmth. If you lean them with other pictures or pieces, be careful of sharp edges or points, move them every now and then, and store them separately in hot weather to prevent them sticking. If you ever need to repair the varnish, I have a how-to video on Instagram. I recommend storing them in the silicone paper sleeves I use to package them.

All paintings used are public domain; I have edited them in various ways so they translate to miniature.