Well, my first semester at Queen’s University in the Master of Art Conservation program is finally wrapping up. I will be handing in my last assignment very soon. Then I get to breathe a great sigh of relief and give a toast to myself for a semester well completed. I feel like I started off…
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making wheat starch paste in the lab
Over the last couple of weeks, I needed to use paste in the lab as I have begun some tear repairs on the WWII poster. I wanted to share my class notes on this because I think some of my friends back home will enjoy this very methodical method of making conservation grade wheat paste….
multispectral imaging in the queen’s university arts conservation lab: foster freeman vsc 8000
This past week I’ve made use of the Foster Freeman VSC 8000 (pictured above) quite a bit. I’m lucky to have access to this machine and I really enjoyed learning how to use it. It’s marketed for use in forensics, but we have one in our conservation lab for investigating heritage objects. Here are some…
thanksgiving weekend
I had another busy week at school, but I think I am finally starting to get a good handle on everything that is expected of me. I felt more prepared for classes and I have a good grasp now of how I need to approach all of the readings and homework. We learned some cool…
the past two weeks
I’d planned on keeping a pretty regular post once a week, however, that idea hasn’t quite panned out since it’s been two weeks now since my last post. All I can say is that the last two weeks of September have been a bit of a blur for me. There always seems to be so…
a bit about summer and moving to Kingston
We spent much of the summer getting ready for our move to Kingston, but were able to still get away for a short weekend trip to Canmore thanks to our friends Geoff and Gill. On our last evening there we did the Grassi Lakes hike and we had the trail nearly all to ourselves thanks…