Client, knocking on conservators' front door: Hi, i have an old painting i'd like you to take a look at, i- Julien: **spits 142 tacks in spit-bucket** , yes, of course, let me see here- Client:
Same! When I went to Italy 5 years ago, I've visited some important cathedral that had various artworks displayed and I was stunned by all the colours! The paintings were so lush that it almost made me felt like a sinner. I was thoroughly shocked.
If I knew how to ain’t I would use those colors, as a way of setting the atmosphere most of my painting would have. After all, they are supposed to reflect off your emotions or lack thereof.
The way he considers if future restorers will be able to restore the painting from his work is so amazing...even hundreds of years later, his art, his work, his dedication will hopefully be examined by another of his skill level and care.
Someone else: * puts tacks in their mouth * Me: you idiot wtf Julian: * puts tacks in his mouth * Me: there is no end to this man’s talents and skills. Amazing
That is how you are supposed to do it. What a stupid comment. It's how humans have done it ever since nails and tacks have existed. And likely before then.
@@Luckingsworth Not really. Because most people arent trained to do it, as well as the fact we are taught from a young ass age to NOT put sharp objects in our mouths.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Which world do you live in where you have to be specifically taught how to put a tack or a nail in your mouth without hurting yourself..?
My grandfather, in alarm at seeing the colors radically change: What is he doing?! My grandmother who has been taking care of her mother and grandmother’s paintings for the last 30 years: It’s called cleaning Phillip, maybe you should think of doing that sometimes.
What Julian says: "Someone in the past covered this painting in polyurethane, which is about the WORST thing you could cover it with." What Julian means: *Gordon Ramsey voice* "WHAT the everloving SHIT was going through this person's head?! POLYURETHANE??? A MORON. A FUCKING DONKEY. AN IDIOT SANDWICH."
I don’t perceive it as roasting. I reckon it’s more that the earlier conservational work has been made at a time where the modern day’s materials, techniques and technologies weren’t available or even thought up/invented. My guess is that the lead paint may even be a century old or so (but it’s just a guess).
Julian: “ **puts tacks into mouth** this is an old technique whereby the tacks are held in the cheek” Me: “lmao yea right ok” Julian: *doesn’t say “I’m kidding”* Me: wait what ???
I have to imagine a very corpulent black man not unlike big smoke watching this video very carefully and with full attention, commenting this with the utmost vigor.
This man speaks like a lifelong friend who has experienced more than you but never judges your own experiences and only wants to see you do well and improve as a person
Hah, I noticed at 4 mins in - "man, is Julian having a rough week? starting to get some scruff on!" I admit it wasn't till I noticed a fair amount of growth on his neck, about 2 mins before he mentioned it, that I realised it was deliberate.
Julian: "if it does need to be taken off in the future, it will be much easier than a big lead patch" wow the shade Julian is such a master of subtly dragging the previous convervators
my favorite part of watching these videos is judging the (bad) past conservation attempts as if I have anything more than basic knowledge of art conservation
Can confirm, one of my friends ended up moving to the other side of the world in order to get her masters in art restoration and I refuse to believe she wasn't influenced by videos like this one
@@simselchen2293 That's what I was thinking. I've known a few experienced, professional seamstresses who held pins in their mouth, and inhaled them. One woman got a pin stuck in her lung, and she had to have surgery to remove it.
"average person eats 3 tacks a year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person eats 0 tacks a year. Tacks Julian, who lives in a studio and eats over 10.000 tacks a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
@@caseybouquet not really. Julian is just an exception because what he does takes long no matter what and it needs to be good. If I take a week to finish some quality reports but the deadline was 3 days I'm getting reprimanded or fired. Especially if their not even that good
mom, from other room: what are you watching? me: the conservation of a religious painting mom: *walks in to see a man pour himself a handful of steel tacks and eat them*
"I'm gonna be using a technique called the spitting tacks technique" puts tacks on his hand me: haha what's he gonna do, eat them? him: shoves a handful of tacks into his mouth me: surprised pikachu face
Can we take a moment to appreciate how straight his work is on the Bridging technique to hold in that patch... holy crap... They are literally PERFECT and straight...
I mentioned the same thing to him months ago about the amount of cotton swabs used in one particular restoration and a got a smart ass answer, like “a lot”. Ok. 😏
I felt like a kid who had just been called on by the teacher. I thought he was going to ask me the name of the next tool he was going to use or something!
Ok but DOES THIS MAN KNOWS HOW ATTRACTIVE HE IS?!?! His delicacy, he's manner of talking, his hands, his face, his KNOWLEDGE is attractive. Idk if you understand but DAMM
Other conservators: polyurethane, staples rabbit skin glue, lead paint patches Julian: hold my conservator grade, fully reversible, water and alcohol soluble, archival adhesive
A real conservator would never put lead paint patches o polyurethane in an art work, but staples can be a very good choice in some cases and also rabbit skin glue is totally reversible. Your welcome
Lucía GC Excuse me, I sought to make a contrast between ineffective, archaic or simple materials and Julien’s state-of-the-art adhesive, not detail what a “real” and “not real” conservator would do. By the way, *you’re. You’re welcome.
Sometimes I get emotional thinking about that original artist who, unknown to them, will have their work be so lovingly treated and whose original vision will be so faithfully followed. As a student training to be a research scientist, part of my job someday will be to leave behind research and data for the next generation to build upon. I can only hope that my own legacy will be treated with such care, and watching Julian work on these paintings has influenced the respect with which I treat my predecessors in my own field. Both art and science are conversations that span centuries, and if you know how to listen, even long-gone masters can have a whole lot to say.
@@handuo6301 That's good to hear. In the 1990s I did my PhD in chemistry in an area related to wood and glues, so that's why this channel became interesting to me. SEM would be a cool area to get into if you're interested in binding, adsoprtion and absorption. Good luck with it.
'Hell yea imma use this knowledge!' But then I realise that I rarely use paint... And that I've been transitioning to digital art for the past three years... And when I do use paint, it's mostly watercolour on a very tiny scale... 'well never mind then'
Good thing these restorations are online, the future conservators masters will be able to see your methods and the why you used said methods to conserve the paintings. To me it's fascinating the work that is needed and that is put into these projects. Great job Julian !
"tacks? tACKS? by far the worst and most inappropriate method of conservation, j u l i a n, staples are the only option" (of course they only know its julian from the neat belgium linen tacking edge held down with tacks)
Funny story uhhhh I was helping my uncle who is an electricion He was doing this technic to hold big nails He accidentally swollen around 4 And my uncle grew up in a farm so he refused to go to the hospital So he decided to eat as mush as possible So they could get out naturally and he had around one week of pain from nails that damaged his stomach So my family convinced him to go to hospital then he had to go get surgery So yeah it is painful lol
Thats how he so good. He always imagines the old guys from the Muppets talking shit about him in the corner. "Did he just eat a nail?" "With any luck he'll tack him self to the painting. Ahhahahaha"
It happens. There was one time that one of his videos got to the front page of reddit and the top comment was someone claiming to be an expert conservator and criticizing his work super harshly and unfairly. It was obvious that they'd never actually watched or listened to any of his videos because a lot of what they criticized were things that he explains in almost every video.
I love restoring things and using power tools to do it. This video was on my feed and I thought painting restoration?? Give me a break… So I watched a few minutes of it thinking big whoop, but the longer I watched it, the more I began to understand the intricacies of each and every step and the type of personality equipped to manage such a restoration. Your patience, your knowledge and your equipment, blew my mind. Never did I think I would make it through 10 minutes let alone the full length of this video. Bravo my friend… Bravo!
I like fixing things myself but unfortunately I was born without the patience gene I'd crack up after 5 minutes of scraping and put my foot through the painting..
"i'm working extremely fast because i sped up the video" oh thanks if this hadn't been cleared up i would still be under the impression that julian is just that fast
I was taught to do it with panel pins when training as a carpenter many moons ago ,easiest and quickest way.You do end up with bits of crap in your mouth.
These videos make me want to be an art conservator so much. It looks like something I could focus on for hours every day for the rest of my life without getting bored. Really makes me wonder what local programs there are near me or how else I could go about learning that.
Julain: I'll be using a technique called spitting tacks Me: Haha, that's not a thing Julian: *puts tacks in his mouth* Julian: *keeps putting tacks in his mouth and spitting them out* Me: o.O
@@BaumgartnerRestoration I realize that as you say"gotta do what works". However, I thought you might like to be warned that my Father who was an upholsterer, used to do the same thing with his tacks and he died of stomach cancer which was traced back to his usage of this technique.
@@Teesixhundred These tacks are modern stainless steel, the tacks your father used were probably some crude alloy with who knows what in them (probably lead). These tacks are likely as safe or safer than anything you use to cook your food.
i have a suspicion that baumgardner subscribers are pretty likely to watch every single upload because we know what we're here for and he delivers it straight up
"I did not have a beard when we started this project" Me: *restarted the video to check because I wasn't paying attention to his beard* He really did not have a beard LMAO
*Robber walks in thinking he will steal some paintings* Julian: *Turns around to look at them* Julian again: *Starts to spit tacks like a machine gun at the robber*
This comment is making me realize just how many tools are in his studio that could be used against a robber- Julian could fucking home alone anyone who would dare. Hot table, band saw, toxic chemicals. Let's just say it would be damage that would NOT be fully reversable.
I kinda like the idea that, say, 200 years from now when most of the current records are no longer decipherable, a future conservator will just extract a tack, pop it into their DNA machine and go "....hmmmm, okay, Baumgartner. What do we know about him and his methods?" Intern/apprentice: "well, we know he used Belgian linen..."
Julian: "Well, I know what you're thinking..." Me: "The tacks are going to hurt your mouth! What if you swallow one? What if you get tetanus?! The blood, the horror!!!" Julian: "...what about the saliva?"
@@folasade7433 same, I eat sunflower seeds and will stuff my cheek with them and by the end of the bag my cheek hurts, not to mention my tongue, how he does this with tacks, no idea
Am I the only one that kinda likes those cracks? It just adds to the vibe. You appreciate how old and delicate that painting really is. Of course sometimes those cracks can be very disrupting but overall it adds a certain amount of depth and vulnerability
It's so opposite to what we do in the floor refinishing business. Using a pad after we apply a finish (wax or sealer) will actually bring out a higher gloss shine. You basically use a soft surface pad, and run it on a orbital buffer and it makes a dull floor shiny. I guess felt is more abrasive than I initially thought.
Julian: *pours tacks into hand* Me: "Ah yes, alrighty, time for the superior tacks, go Julian-" Julian: *puts the handful of tacks into mouth* Me: 👁️👄👁️ ⱼᵤₗᵢₐₙ, ᵢ ₗₒᵥₑ ᵧₒᵤ ᵦᵤₜ 𝓌ₕₐₜ₋
Wow, the attention to detail and exquisite amount of care you take with every single step in the process is just mindblowing. Incredible work, I bet the seminary was very happy with it!
Why, you are presumably behind a computer screen at home and he is at his place of business. plus he is an art restoration expert not a Delta force operator. Your meme is stupid.
Elmithian bro i literally just watched one video before this one and get the joke already. i got it before i even watched the video because i saw the merch. it’s not that hard to understand.
Hard pills to swallow: Degrees Fahrenheit are the superior unit for the temperatures humans are comfortable in and it's a more precise system without needing decimals. 😎
@@mannys9130 hard pill to swallow : all temperature system are entirely man made and completely arbitrary, there's no superior one, just the one that you're the most used to
@@mannys9130 If it's so superior then why has pretty much every other country switched to celsius? Celcius is much easier to understand, much better way to communicate temperature in a way people can understand intuitively.
I can imagine the old masters looking down from heaven and being impressed & pleased that you’ve done a beautiful work restoring their work of art! Not sure I made much sense! This is only the second restoration of yours I’ve watched & it’s truly fascinating!👏👏😊
I clicked on this video expecting to skip through atleast 35 minutes of it just to see the final result. But this was so interesting and inviting to watch, I'd watched it almost the whole way through before I realised I'd done so. A great educational video for even non-enthusiasts of art. I really enjoyed it.
Client, knocking on conservators' front door: Hi, i have an old painting i'd like you to take a look at, i-
Julien: **spits 142 tacks in spit-bucket** , yes, of course, let me see here-
Client:
oh my, this is so underrated
Gold😂😂
😂😂😂
Oh my god, this deserves way more likes, lol
🤣🤣
"I'm going to have to... scrape... each. and. every. one. of. them. off."
[Flashbacks to the Scraping Of The Painting]
PiskeyFaeri *Vietnam sounds*
But is it worse than polyurethane?
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
IM GETTING FLASHBACKS
@@haleydarby-miller4480 Nothing is worse than PU. Nothing.
I always thought these painters just had a thing for dark, desaturated and depressing colors. Turns out, it's grime.
Same! When I went to Italy 5 years ago, I've visited some important cathedral that had various artworks displayed and I was stunned by all the colours! The paintings were so lush that it almost made me felt like a sinner. I was thoroughly shocked.
Just like how classical sculptures were supposed to be painted, I actually like the white marble grim look
Mixture of grime, yellowed varnish and some pigment discoloration.
I shouldn't be surprised, but I am, at how often much of the grime is tobacco smoke.
If I knew how to ain’t I would use those colors, as a way of setting the atmosphere most of my painting would have. After all, they are supposed to reflect off your emotions or lack thereof.
The way he considers if future restorers will be able to restore the painting from his work is so amazing...even hundreds of years later, his art, his work, his dedication will hopefully be examined by another of his skill level and care.
He has a video where he had to go back and re-restore a painting he'd previously done. I seem to recall he still managed to throw some shade around.
@@TheRealColBosch I’ve seen that one lmao I think he still did a pretty good job though
By then they’ll be like “eugh, Belgian linen, how amateur”.
@@TheRealColBosch do you remember what vidéo it was?
The restoration of Anne. Great video. He pats himself on the back a few times. 😂
Someone else: * puts tacks in their mouth *
Me: you idiot wtf
Julian: * puts tacks in his mouth *
Me: there is no end to this man’s talents and skills. Amazing
Me: Wait wh-
Julian: *puts tacks in his mouth*
My anxiety: *Spikes like hell*
@1ConnectT1 this is gold
That is how you are supposed to do it. What a stupid comment. It's how humans have done it ever since nails and tacks have existed. And likely before then.
@@Luckingsworth Not really.
Because most people arent trained to do it, as well as the fact we are taught from a young ass age to NOT put sharp objects in our mouths.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241
Which world do you live in where you have to be specifically taught how to put a tack or a nail in your mouth without hurting yourself..?
My grandfather, in alarm at seeing the colors radically change: What is he doing?!
My grandmother who has been taking care of her mother and grandmother’s paintings for the last 30 years: It’s called cleaning Phillip, maybe you should think of doing that sometimes.
get fucked phillip
My girl did not have to ROAST him like that but SHE DID. Iconic.
Pfffft roast him like a turkey dinner, gramma 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hahahaha!!! Go Grandma! This made my day!
that did not happen
seeing julien talk directly to the camera felt like something i wasn’t supposed to see
kaeli hes done this before and it’s always unsettling, i feel like he’s staring into my soul
Like peppy pig looking at you straight on
same i feel like that every time he does that
It feels like he's breaking the 4th wall
Feels like I committed a sin
"I did not have a beard at the start of this project"
*goes back to beginning of video to see a clean shaven man*
Ikr lol
@@furiscafynn6275 I didn't think to check (lol)
I had to go back and check too! I was like....NO!.......OMG!
Somebody needs to make a compilations of him roasting past conservators lol
He does it so nicely too. I'd be like " what stupid feckin' eejit decided that lead paint and a hanky were appropriate canvas repair mediums?!"
What Julian says: "Someone in the past covered this painting in polyurethane, which is about the WORST thing you could cover it with."
What Julian means: *Gordon Ramsey voice* "WHAT the everloving SHIT was going through this person's head?! POLYURETHANE??? A MORON. A FUCKING DONKEY. AN IDIOT SANDWICH."
* lovingly * we stan a shady bitch my dudes
YESSSS
I don’t perceive it as roasting. I reckon it’s more that the earlier conservational work has been made at a time where the modern day’s materials, techniques and technologies weren’t available or even thought up/invented.
My guess is that the lead paint may even be a century old or so (but it’s just a guess).
I love how he always talks to his viewers like we're all gonna be little art conservators ourselves one day. Kinda wholesome
Yeah, it really makes me want to study to become a conservator, I mean, at this age I could go into that....
Oml it’s like we’re all his little kids coming into his work and he’s showing us what he does
@@chloevaughn9755 woahhhh that's right! i never thought about it like that...
What? You mean you aren’t?
(The one kid who touches everything)
Julian: “ **puts tacks into mouth** this is an old technique whereby the tacks are held in the cheek”
Me: “lmao yea right ok”
Julian: *doesn’t say “I’m kidding”*
Me: wait what ???
I WAS WAITING FOR THE "I'M KIDDING"
I couldn't help worrying what would have happened if he had accidentally swallowed any of them.
God Lord it was hard to watch that part with tacks and not thinking Good Lord he's gonna swallowe it, oh nooo.
He has such a (please, please pardon this) tongue in cheek type of humor, that it took a long time to realize he wasn't just bullshitting! LOL
That's exactly what I thought 😂 I was waiting for him to say "sike" lol
I'm not gonna lie, the trick with tacks in your mouth was pretty neat. And if you sneeze, you basically turn into a nailer :D
If I were doing that, I would be at risk of BEING nailed IN THE MOUTH because I inhale really sharply right before I sneeze 😅
Thanks mate, you made me laugh out loud, was having shit day 😁
When he said " spitting tacks " I expected him for some reason to just cartoonishly spit the tacks straight into the wood
SAME SAME SAME
the power he holds is not foolish enough for this action
Omg same 😂
You expected that because you know that he could've if he wanted to.
Now that's alotta damage! i thought it was a skit so i was surprised but he cONTINUED 😭😭😭
Love him or hate him, he spitting straight tacks
Cactus Kaktus this literally deserves more recognition and the fact that its not one of the most liked comments upsets me greatly
*get out*
why isnt this the top comment this made me laugh irl
That is a severely underrated comment you have right there....
I have to imagine a very corpulent black man not unlike big smoke watching this video very carefully and with full attention, commenting this with the utmost vigor.
baumgartner: so I’m gonna have to bridge this repair
me: ah yes, no doubt with strips of Belgian linen
Katie C me lmao
No fucking polyurethane get that shit out of here lemme whip out my conservative grade reversible water-soluble archival adhesive
haha
Katie C so you were wrong even after watching the video? individual fibres not strips
Andreas Rydèn You are not familiar with wit?
This man speaks like a lifelong friend who has experienced more than you but never judges your own experiences and only wants to see you do well and improve as a person
Julian has to defend his palette every video. Alright, who’s the one complaining about his palette?
It was me, the destroyer of worlds.
IT WAS ME, DIO
Applejayz19 DIOOOOOOOOO
@@_elliethesmelly it appears that the jojo fans have infested this comment section too, no video is safe from their rampage ig
Ur mom
"I did not have a beard when I started this project"
Well damn...
I actually went back to check, lol
@@strange144 Same!
Hum, yeah. Now better take of that beard again! 😬
Hah, I noticed at 4 mins in - "man, is Julian having a rough week? starting to get some scruff on!" I admit it wasn't till I noticed a fair amount of growth on his neck, about 2 mins before he mentioned it, that I realised it was deliberate.
I was waiting for the “just kidding” when he just casually threw a handful of tacks into his mouth but it never came
Alicia Banister Same 😭
that image will haunt us from now one.
....when did he do this.....?
@@aya-yz6ro 26:30
Imagine swallowing one by accident...
“if ur ever transporting a painting...”
ah yes those times when i, as a teen girl will be transporting an old piece of art. those times...
Me, putting my drawings on a dirty folder and throwing them on a school bag full of trash and open markers.
@@sholmes4593 my old drawings in my old, distorted, folded, wetted and stepped on by my cats and myself sketchbook, are looking at me
You're not going to be a teenager forever
@@almachizit3207 No shit.
@@almachizit3207 Yeah but the fact that they weren't transporting an old piece of art at that time will be forever
Everybody gangsta until the conservator guy start eating tacks
Every conservator gangsta until they accidentally swallow tacks
Everyone gangsta till
I thought he was kidding when he ate the tacks
I thought 'spitting tacks' was just a strange name for a technique for quickly putting tacks in
gourmet
Jay Sage tis’ but a meal for the supreme conservatives
i love how julian is starting to bring more humor into his videos he has such a great personality
he made a joke?
Ill clart your head in
Yes, he has a great sense of humor 😂😂
@@DeuceGenius r
Never before have I ever been so relaxed and lmfao simultaneously. Until Julian. 🤣
1983 : The joy of painting
2020 : The joy of restoring
Joy. Until staples and polyurethane show up
@@fiveseven15 Oh no, no that again
Vandyke Brown Gang rise up
I know you
omg i listen to both of them when i sleep
Julian: "if it does need to be taken off in the future, it will be much easier than a big lead patch"
wow the shade
Julian is such a master of subtly dragging the previous convervators
Luckily the potential recipient of that shade is probably already dead.
Legendary
I love how he makes it sound like a tutorial but we're all just watching this at 3 am
literally 2:45 am right now
3:02 😪
You can stop attacking us now...I feel so called out...
That's what all tutorial videos are
4:57 am
Julian: I’m gonna be doing a edge lining using
Everyone: BELGIAN LINEN
me before this channel: Belgian linen who is she, I never heard of her? 👎
me after this channel: Mmmm Belgian linen, that's music to my ears! 🙌
Everyone: nodding sagely.
There was one where he reenforced the existing tacking edge with silk!
as a belgian, it makes me feel validated lol
Arrana Burden gasps,clutches pearls,reels, Surely Not!😳😳😳(can you remember which one it was and let me know if you do please, cheers)
I love how passive aggressive he is to people who tried and failed to retouch it in the past
its the best part about the voice overs ngl
Aka passionate
If it's worth doing it's worth doing right
my favorite part of watching these videos is judging the (bad) past conservation attempts as if I have anything more than basic knowledge of art conservation
It seems to me that this is an expression of pain that the painting has not been treated in the best possible way.
"I did not have a beard when we started this..." is my favorite line in this narration. What a mood
I look away for one second and he's downing a handful of tacks. 3 am is wild, you guys.
i was gonna like your comment but its at 999
Lol
mm, imagine being drunk watching this.. that could go very wrong
Lol
@@sonijaali That is fair and valid
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly
His mouth full of tacc
Imagine if he swallows one OML
Laughed out loud at that 😂
And with beard, he a snacc.
Lmao
Solid gold comment!
*I was really hoping you'd be spitting* those tacks out, like a machine gun.
Glad I wasn't the only one 😆😆😆
😂
🤣🤣
Just like the cartoons of old! I miss those kinds of things.
You can tell some nasty accidents have happened that way before.
This guy and Bob Ross are one of the few people who have probably made people into an art major. The video was really cool, thanks for the work
Can confirm, one of my friends ended up moving to the other side of the world in order to get her masters in art restoration and I refuse to believe she wasn't influenced by videos like this one
"I did not have a beard when we started this project."
Actually had to go back and see
👏🏻
@@Robberator Same here.. He really didn't have a beard :-D
I love his dry humor!
@@LeeDee5 Not dry enough, needs to be but on the hot table and vacuum out the moisture !
"You may be thinking
A: Thats disgusting.
B: What about all the saliva."
THIS MAN DOESNT EVEN CONSIDER DANGER AN OPTION THATS HOW GOOD HE IS.
My first thought was danger.
My first thought was “huh I’ve seen my dad do that before and just thought he was doing that to hold them, huh”
The tacks he was using didn't look very sharp, a duller variety from what I can see
Ripley the Skull dog I still wouldn’t want to swallow one. But I’d be even more worried to inhale one and have it stuck in my airways 😱😰
@@simselchen2293 That's what I was thinking. I've known a few experienced, professional seamstresses who held pins in their mouth, and inhaled them. One woman got a pin stuck in her lung, and she had to have surgery to remove it.
"average person eats 3 tacks a year" factoid is actually just a statistical error. The average person eats 0 tacks a year. Tacks Julian, who lives in a studio and eats over 10.000 tacks a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
Mm, Cookie Clicker flashbacks.
underrated comment (nice reference)
Same as "the average person has less than two legs" or "the majority of people have more than the average number of legs".
I think tacks Julian and spiders Georg would get along quite well
Giulia mathematically seen-> doesn’t make sense at all. An average person wouldn’t even eat one in a year...
My favorite part is when he cleans the painting; it's just so satisfying.
and my second favorite is when he removes the lines/cracks and brings back the softness of the Blessed Virgin Mary's face.
Julian: nobody’s paying me for speed, they’re paying me for quality.
Amen.
Well the time it takes is included in the price
Shit my teacher is grading me on both there’s no end to school’s inaccuracy to the real world
Cheap, quick, good.
Pick two.
@@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450 ofttimes it's pick one
@@caseybouquet not really. Julian is just an exception because what he does takes long no matter what and it needs to be good. If I take a week to finish some quality reports but the deadline was 3 days I'm getting reprimanded or fired. Especially if their not even that good
mom, from other room: what are you watching?
me: the conservation of a religious painting
mom: *walks in to see a man pour himself a handful of steel tacks and eat them*
LMAO!
right? LOL
And I was like "no way, this has to be a joke", but it wasn't
Stupid
+
Gold
"I'm gonna be using a technique called the spitting tacks technique" puts tacks on his hand
me: haha what's he gonna do, eat them?
him: shoves a handful of tacks into his mouth
me: surprised pikachu face
Didn't really expect him to gobble them up from his palm like a terminal patient taking his fistful of meds but ok.
I just laughed so hard at your Pikachu comment
OMG made my day :D
Roofers do it, too. When I was a kid, I had an older cousin fall off a roof, he swallowed several roofing nails.
@@Revelwoodie Oh my god was he ok !?
i really thought it was a joke until he actually did it and used that tack. i am still in shock
Can we take a moment to appreciate how straight his work is on the Bridging technique to hold in that patch... holy crap... They are literally PERFECT and straight...
Did you notice he lays them in every other woven row? Insanity. The best kind
Instead of a timer when you clean, you need a swab “kill count” somewhere on screen.
He’s unlocked the tactical nuke
I mentioned the same thing to him months ago about the amount of cotton swabs used in one particular restoration and a got a smart ass answer, like “a lot”. Ok. 😏
@@kaliamiller5313 Ah, I see...., a man of culture
K L E O ayyyyyyyyy
Yes!!
When Julian turned around and started talking directly to the camera I didn't know what to do with myself
I felt like a kid who had just been called on by the teacher. I thought he was going to ask me the name of the next tool he was going to use or something!
lol
My mom walked in and said “are you on FaceTime with this man”
@@birdylady3332 XD
@Robert Lee, Countertenor pst lmaoo he’s just to attractive
"I did not have a beard when we started this project."
me: *goes back and checks*
Which minute is this?
Same.
to those too lazy to go back, he did not XD
Around 4:20 for the no beard part, look LEFT
I went back and checked too! xD
Ok but DOES THIS MAN KNOWS HOW ATTRACTIVE HE IS?!?! His delicacy, he's manner of talking, his hands, his face, his KNOWLEDGE is attractive. Idk if you understand but DAMM
bro yeah.
NO BC UR RIGHT AND SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT.
We understand, we understand COMPLETELY
lesbian flag 💀💀
@@sydssolanumsamsys that's how you know he's really attractive. If a lesbian thinks he is, then he is
“Hey dude, wanna go to the bar tonight?”
“Sorry bro, can’t make it. Gotta restore the painting of St. Francis”
😂
Lol
"Dude...that sounds cool".
life goals...
💀💀💀
I love the dry humor that is:
“As you can see, I’m working really fast...
Because I’ve sped up the camera.”
When he just threw back those tacks I was totally expecting him to be joking... but he wasn’t and I’m speechless
Same
Same
I WONT BE SILLLLEEEEEENNT YOU CANT KEEP ME QUIIIIEEEET
CUZ I KNOW THAT I WONT GOOO SPEECHLESSSSS SPEEEEEECCCHHHHHLEEEEESSSSSSS
Panda WTF
i thought this comment was a joke nope he deadass downs some tacks what the fuck
I like how he sounds pissed off and tired but trying to keep his composure, like you can hear how tired and stressed out he is
"I'm pretty sure they used a white glue like Elmer's"
Me: Sweet Mother of Christ what were they thinking?
Watch his video of removing a thick layer of polyurethane from a painting.
were you also eating chips while saying that?
I never ever even thought of any restoration working or school and now I am offended by some douchebag using elmers glue on a 100 yo painting
Me too!!! And WHITE LEAD PAINT!!!
@@rescued1103 this one really got me, only because of my very minimal knowledge of paint.
Other conservators: polyurethane, staples rabbit skin glue, lead paint patches
Julian: hold my conservator grade, fully reversible, water and alcohol soluble, archival adhesive
A real conservator would never put lead paint patches o polyurethane in an art work, but staples can be a very good choice in some cases and also rabbit skin glue is totally reversible.
Your welcome
With a descriptive listing like that just for the adhesive, it makes you wonder what his coffee order looks like.
Lucía GC you’re
Lucía GC Excuse me, I sought to make a contrast between ineffective, archaic or simple materials and Julien’s state-of-the-art adhesive, not detail what a “real” and “not real” conservator would do.
By the way, *you’re.
You’re welcome.
@@Iolovelita thanks guys, English is not my first language
Julian: I’m not really painting, I’m just applying little dots of paint on the canvas
Pointillists: >:(
They big mad😂 didn't they only use the 3 basic colours tho, or was that the one Guy specifically
I thought the same thing, when he said it. XD Have an upvote friend!
Sometimes I get emotional thinking about that original artist who, unknown to them, will have their work be so lovingly treated and whose original vision will be so faithfully followed. As a student training to be a research scientist, part of my job someday will be to leave behind research and data for the next generation to build upon. I can only hope that my own legacy will be treated with such care, and watching Julian work on these paintings has influenced the respect with which I treat my predecessors in my own field. Both art and science are conversations that span centuries, and if you know how to listen, even long-gone masters can have a whole lot to say.
Have you become a scientist, and do you research, in which fields ?
@ I’m currently in my first year of grad school! I’m getting a PhD in physics.
@@handuo6301 That's good to hear. In the 1990s I did my PhD in chemistry in an area related to wood and glues, so that's why this channel became interesting to me. SEM would be a cool area to get into if you're interested in binding, adsoprtion and absorption. Good luck with it.
when he put tacks in his mouth i thought he was joking with like skittles or somethin
...and the question to ask is,
"Does your dentist know that you are doing this!?" 🤨
Julian: and I'm gonna be using a techinique called spitting tacks
Me: lmao he's so funny
Julian: *shoves tacks in mouth*
Me:
Me: say sike right now
i was like.. cut the cameras.... deadass
@@looorazepamy tactful reply
@@user-hr8pz6lh5w get out
@@looorazepamy *wHeEzE*
@Neil Simmons I don’t think you got the *point*
Me: takes note to always roll up a painting paint layer out
Also me: will probably never transport a painting in my life
Lily Von Feldt I am now criticizing every movie I have seen or will see which rolls the painting layer inside.
Me: takes studious notes on how and when to retouch a painting
Also me: has not touched paint since 6th grade
Lol
I have a painting in storage, and I rolled it layer in, *AAAHHGGGGG*
'Hell yea imma use this knowledge!'
But then I realise that I rarely use paint...
And that I've been transitioning to digital art for the past three years...
And when I do use paint, it's mostly watercolour on a very tiny scale...
'well never mind then'
Good thing these restorations are online, the future conservators masters will be able to see your methods and the why you used said methods to conserve the paintings. To me it's fascinating the work that is needed and that is put into these projects. Great job Julian !
You just bet this guy has a perfectly laid screen protector on his phone, without a single bubble, lol
Oh please, nobody has that, it’s impossible!! 🤣
@@BaumgartnerRestoration Lol
@@BaumgartnerRestoration That omnipresent spec of dust.
my screen protecter is on perfectly but since it’s been on i’ve cracked the screen big time
@@BaumgartnerRestoration buffing the bubbles out so much with a piece of Balsa that it ignites 😂
I like to picture a guy 200 years from now restoring a painting that Julian restored and is like "omg there's nothing I hate more than Belgian linen"
"tacks? tACKS? by far the worst and most inappropriate method of conservation, j u l i a n, staples are the only option"
(of course they only know its julian from the neat belgium linen tacking edge held down with tacks)
The inception painting?
this man used BRIDGING?!?!?!?!
Sacrilegious !!!
Who spits on their tacks?!
‘you might think... gross’
NO IM THINKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOW THOSE
yeah me too getting them out will be painful
Thinking about that gives me anxiety
Yeah me too i only thinking how painful that is to get them out
Funny story uhhhh
I was helping my uncle who is an electricion
He was doing this technic to hold big nails
He accidentally swollen around 4
And my uncle grew up in a farm so he refused to go to the hospital
So he decided to eat as mush as possible
So they could get out naturally and he had around one week of pain from nails that damaged his stomach
So my family convinced him to go to hospital then he had to go get surgery
So yeah it is painful lol
what min ?
My grandfather was a carpet layer. He used the same hammer and method to spit the tacks. I always wondered why the tack packages all said sterilized.
9:28 "And so I have to go with my scalpel and scrape. EACH. AND. EVERY. ONE. OF. THEM. OFF."
This man is such a massive mood
I think the polyurethane scraping broke a part of him
That bit made me chuckle
y e s
Some insect poo is stubborn.
Me when I saw Julian filling his mouth with tacks: Oh, he's so playful, love that
me 3 seconds later: holy god he is serious
This painting drove him insane
i love how in all of these videos Julian is like defending his methods, like how many conservator-experts are critiquing him in the comment section?
Thats how he so good. He always imagines the old guys from the Muppets talking shit about him in the corner. "Did he just eat a nail?" "With any luck he'll tack him self to the painting. Ahhahahaha"
Oh I know- but the results speak for themselves clearly
It happens. There was one time that one of his videos got to the front page of reddit and the top comment was someone claiming to be an expert conservator and criticizing his work super harshly and unfairly. It was obvious that they'd never actually watched or listened to any of his videos because a lot of what they criticized were things that he explains in almost every video.
Other conservators exist, you know.
I love restoring things and using power tools to do it. This video was on my feed and I thought painting restoration?? Give me a break… So I watched a few minutes of it thinking big whoop, but the longer I watched it, the more I began to understand the intricacies of each and every step and the type of personality equipped to manage such a restoration. Your patience, your knowledge and your equipment, blew my mind. Never did I think I would make it through 10 minutes let alone the full length of this video. Bravo my friend… Bravo!
I like fixing things myself but unfortunately I was born without the patience gene I'd crack up after 5 minutes of scraping and put my foot through the painting..
i love how this man is so professional and serious and we’re in his comments like “daddy tack man clean MY surface grime off
i hate this comment with a burning passion
Oop-
Nobody says stuff like this and I hope that you’re ashamed of yourself
yeet this skeet I mean.....
Who tf would do such a thing I'm wheezing 😂😂😂
"i'm working extremely fast because i sped up the video"
oh thanks if this hadn't been cleared up i would still be under the impression that julian is just that fast
Reality is a lie ig julian isnt achully that fast
Wait, Julian is not really that fast and it's edited?! Another lie in my life
*running at the speed of restoration™*
he's lying he can't not be that fast
when he put in all the nails into his mouth i choked on my water; i thought he was kidding!
SAME!!!
@@BubblePirates yes, was wondering the same. some needs to clarify! :D :D
I seriously thought he was joking. But then he just continued like it was normal haha. I was thinking "I dont buy it, I see right through the joke"
I was taught to do it with panel pins when training as a carpenter many moons ago ,easiest and quickest way.You do end up with bits of crap in your mouth.
i'm still not convinced he wasn't joking tbh xD
These videos make me want to be an art conservator so much. It looks like something I could focus on for hours every day for the rest of my life without getting bored. Really makes me wonder what local programs there are near me or how else I could go about learning that.
Julain: I'll be using a technique called spitting tacks
Me: Haha, that's not a thing
Julian: *puts tacks in his mouth*
Julian: *keeps putting tacks in his mouth and spitting them out*
Me: o.O
Gotta do what works!
@@BaumgartnerRestoration I realize that as you say"gotta do what works". However, I thought you might like to be warned that my Father who was an upholsterer, used to do the same thing with his tacks and he died of stomach cancer which was traced back to his usage of this technique.
@@Teesixhundred was he using lead tacks by any chance? Here steel tacks are being used.
@@Teesixhundred These tacks are modern stainless steel, the tacks your father used were probably some crude alloy with who knows what in them (probably lead). These tacks are likely as safe or safer than anything you use to cook your food.
...I just imagine the times I have accidentally swallowed gum or ice and knowing...this is how I would die.
“I could remove that patch with a stern look”
Ajita Srivastava I love dry as a bone humour...
He said that just as i was reading your comment, what are the chances?
One of his best lines.
“Every last spot of paint needs to be scraped off”
*polyurethane flashbacks*
oh gods, I had just forgotten about that D:
LMAOO
The scratching , the painnnnnn .
Scraping,scraping a slow decent into madness.
please let me do it julien
Julian looks like he'd be a really good serial killer...Like dexter levels, I mean he's soooo neat. He'd never get caught!
Maybe he is you never know haha
@@fsheee3458 just one time he makes a video and it’s a human body
“I really love when I get to the eyes” *squsssh*
@@hranf 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭
That fact that he can say “you’ve seen this before if you watched my previous videos” and me to nod and completely remember, that’s wild hahaha
i have a suspicion that baumgardner subscribers are pretty likely to watch every single upload because we know what we're here for and he delivers it straight up
Me showing my friend this video: "Yeah he's so precise and professi-"
Julian: *Swigs a handful of tacks
Me:
Me:
Me: Hold up
Fror Firebasher _stop, wait a minute_
Still not 100% on whether that’s a joke or not but I think I can live with that
*Jazz music stops*
Fror Firebasher wait what time?
@@sparklydancingmice 26:25 bon apettit!
"How long did this restoration take?"
*one beard*
@@deliriaa just one very handsome beard
“Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system”
"I did not have a beard when we started this project"
Me: *restarted the video to check because I wasn't paying attention to his beard*
He really did not have a beard LMAO
*Robber walks in thinking he will steal some paintings*
Julian: *Turns around to look at them*
Julian again: *Starts to spit tacks like a machine gun at the robber*
GIRL EVERYONE IN MY HOUSE IS ASLEEP AND IM TRYING TO HOLD BACK LAUGHTER HAAHHAHA
Olivia M lmao same I’m silently laughing like a donkey- also best comment op
This comment is making me realize just how many tools are in his studio that could be used against a robber- Julian could fucking home alone anyone who would dare. Hot table, band saw, toxic chemicals. Let's just say it would be damage that would NOT be fully reversable.
@@tomboy2980 Omg wait- You right. Julian could just flatten the robber then make his own painting.😩
the imagination of people like you in comments always makes my day 🤣 thank you
Julian explaining putting tacks in his mouth
me: all I see is you kissing your magnetic hammer XD
He and that hammer have been through a lot together.
*magic
At first I thought he was pretending to put them in his mouth like they were candy.... nope...
@@jk-ru8wz "god i wish that were me"
Me, in my underwear on a beanbag chair eating cheetos:
"Ah yes, the Belgian linen! Excellent choice! Exactly what I would have done!"
Ron?!?!?! Hahahahahaha
hahahahahahh omg, i'm dead
😆
Ha Ha, like you said you made a good choice ♥️
Not funny
I started watching this hoping to make myself fall asleep... I just ended up getting immersed into the process and almost finishing the vid
“I’m going to bring it up to about 100 degrees, because we don’t need a lot of heat”
*Panics in centigrade*
Still pretty toasty in Fahrenheit.
All hail Celsius
Kelvin would be frosty
oh is that what it is! I thought it’s in celsius and paintings are just used to a lot of heat or something oof
Litterally boiling with panic
I kinda like the idea that, say, 200 years from now when most of the current records are no longer decipherable, a future conservator will just extract a tack, pop it into their DNA machine and go "....hmmmm, okay, Baumgartner. What do we know about him and his methods?" Intern/apprentice: "well, we know he used Belgian linen..."
GrainneDhu “hmmmmm that saliva was really beneficial.”
I love how he went from sounding like an intelectual in the first videos to sounding like a exhausted art student
Lol I can relate being in art is hard😂
as a dentistry student its surprising the amount of dental instruments you use
We use a fair number in my physics lab too!
Julian: *explains about the spitting tack technique*
Me: oh, okay.
Julian: *puts the tacks in his mouth*
Me: What THE everloving hell are you doing?!
Julian: "Well, I know what you're thinking..."
Me: "The tacks are going to hurt your mouth! What if you swallow one? What if you get tetanus?! The blood, the horror!!!"
Julian: "...what about the saliva?"
burymeinpink EXACTLY I was more worried about his cheek that the spit tbh
@@folasade7433 same, I eat sunflower seeds and will stuff my cheek with them and by the end of the bag my cheek hurts, not to mention my tongue, how he does this with tacks, no idea
You have to get a puncture wound, that doesn’t bleed, on a farm with cows or horses to be exposed to tetanus.
@@mechwarrior5727 same but salted sunflower seeds and than I have little cuts and stuff on my lips
Exactly! Like dude, I'm worried about YOU, not the damn painting, at this point!!
roses are red
staples are weird
when he started the project
he didnt have a beard
*claps furiously for Supreme Commander Kim
Such a poet
Am I the only one that kinda likes those cracks? It just adds to the vibe. You appreciate how old and delicate that painting really is. Of course sometimes those cracks can be very disrupting but overall it adds a certain amount of depth and vulnerability
Me: Never heard about buffing out varnish before.
Also me: Ah, yes, of course, use felt for the micro-texture scratches to diffuse the shine.
So delicately and observantly stated. Eloquently done. (Now I must clean the coffee I snorfed out my nose reading your comment).
I mean, it makes enough sense lol
It's so opposite to what we do in the floor refinishing business. Using a pad after we apply a finish (wax or sealer) will actually bring out a higher gloss shine. You basically use a soft surface pad, and run it on a orbital buffer and it makes a dull floor shiny.
I guess felt is more abrasive than I initially thought.
@@MrJin520 Might've accidentally thought you were talking about using sanitary pads... Was very confused for a good three minutes.
I love the " take note everyone, this is the ONLY time you'll see me use staples"
I'm surprised he even owned a staple gun.
Julian: *pours tacks into hand*
Me: "Ah yes, alrighty, time for the superior tacks, go Julian-"
Julian: *puts the handful of tacks into mouth*
Me: 👁️👄👁️ ⱼᵤₗᵢₐₙ, ᵢ ₗₒᵥₑ ᵧₒᵤ ᵦᵤₜ 𝓌ₕₐₜ₋
omfg this text i cant💀😂
Lol I'm dying
Oh 👁👄👁 no
Julian I love you but what?
@@chrisding1976I think they meant is as "I love you but what the [expletive]"
Wow, the attention to detail and exquisite amount of care you take with every single step in the process is just mindblowing. Incredible work, I bet the seminary was very happy with it!
Julian: *takes out staple gun*
Me: *confused and scared screaming*
Why, you are presumably behind a computer screen at home and he is at his place of business. plus he is an art restoration expert not a Delta force operator.
Your meme is stupid.
@@COUNTERCOM r/woosh
@@sofiasalsabila9264 I mean, it is a very niche joke which you have to watch number of his videos to understand.
Elmithian bro i literally just watched one video before this one and get the joke already. i got it before i even watched the video because i saw the merch. it’s not that hard to understand.
@@Elmithian I'm new it doesn't take much to understand
"I ate a bunch of nails for breakfast."
"So?"
"Without any milk"
totally watched that episode yesterday lol
I need to rewatch all the old spongebob episodes
I'm glad the fine art restoration community still watches spongebob
Welcome to The Salty Spittoon, How tough are ya?
@@nico-9805 spongebob *IS* fine art
"I'm only bringing this painting up to a 100 degrees"
Me, a european : °_°
Me, sees it's in fahrenheit : relief
I'm Canadian and saaaame
me too... I'm Saudi.
Hard pills to swallow: Degrees Fahrenheit are the superior unit for the temperatures humans are comfortable in and it's a more precise system without needing decimals. 😎
@@mannys9130 hard pill to swallow : all temperature system are entirely man made and completely arbitrary, there's no superior one, just the one that you're the most used to
@@mannys9130 If it's so superior then why has pretty much every other country switched to celsius? Celcius is much easier to understand, much better way to communicate temperature in a way people can understand intuitively.
I can imagine the old masters looking down from heaven and being impressed & pleased that you’ve done a beautiful work restoring their work of art! Not sure I made much sense! This is only the second restoration of yours I’ve watched & it’s truly fascinating!👏👏😊
Julian: *starts talking directly to camera in real-time*
Me: HUh wHAT
Wait, that's illegal
baumgartner's favourite song is 'nails for breakfast, tacks for snacks'
YOU DID NOT!!!! YOU DIDNT ISNSHXBSSB STOP THAT OMG
Holy fuck that is a memory I was not prepared to resurface
Gf: I'm feeling kinda dirty tonight
Baumgartner: LATHER-RINSE-REPEAT
Alden D'souza that was funny
*silently takes out a bag and places cotton swabs,balls and bottles of solvent down neatly on a table* "where?"
I clicked on this video expecting to skip through atleast 35 minutes of it just to see the final result. But this was so interesting and inviting to watch, I'd watched it almost the whole way through before I realised I'd done so. A great educational video for even non-enthusiasts of art. I really enjoyed it.