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| Remaining half of a watercolor of a German town |
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It doesn't take long, when sorting and documenting the massive collection of sketches and paintings, for the damage of a flooded basement to become evident.
Many canvasses and sadly, many watercolors and other sketches are damaged, if not totally destroyed. It's hard to say whether it was due to Saskatoon's heavy rain flooding of 1982, where the water rose to one meter high downstairs, or other, lesser basement flooding in the small old house. The heartache of such a discovery is the same, regardless of the cause.
Thanks to photo editing software, however, many of these works can still be included in the inventory, and potentially in some of the planned book publishing. Restoration in print will likely be more successful than tackling it on the originals. Or is it best to just throw it all out.
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| Historic view of the Saskatoon City Hospital with water damage |
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| Water damage on a watercolor sketch of a lake in summer |
