How can I protect my works on paper picture from light damage? Even of though your artwork may be framed an under UV filtering acrylic sheeting, elephant and picture the intensity of the light and duration of exposure is a concern. Try to avoid direct and excessive of and an daylight. Close window curtains or drape elephant the artwork when possible. Windows can also be covered with a film or a screen that will picture lower light intensity and ultraviolet of rays. If possible take down the artwork periodically and exchange an it with another piece, allowing the work to "rest" in storage. elephant The most light-sensitive picture materials of include watercolors and gouache, modern color inks, pastels, newsprint and all color papers. It is important to remember an and elephant and picture that light damage is cumulative and irreversible.. My solid wood sculpture is cracking in the vertical direction. of and an What can I do?Q. I have an outdoor elephant bronze sculpture. How should picture I take care of it?

Do not store or display works of of an art in areas of potentially high elephant and picture and of humidity or water leakage, e.g. basement, bathroom, outside an walls, under pipes. Avoid areas where temperature and humidity fluctuate, or where there is inadequate air elephant circulation, e.g. attic and places listed above. Do not hang artworks over or under radiators, heating and cooling vents, active fireplaces, humidifiers, and vaporizersA. picture The hygroscopic nature of wood means that it will of take water from the atmosphere an and elephant and picture and of and expand, but it will contract as the humidity lessens. The direction of shrinkage is almost always an around the circumference, which causes elephant a solid piece of wood to crack vertically. Keeping it in a steady relative humidity can stabilize the sculpture; if picture the wood does not absorb or of release moisture, it will no longer expand or contract an and elephant.

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