At 15:26 01/06/2000 -0800, you wrote: >Any guesses as to how long your average watercolor painting, (artist's >original) endures before noticeable fading? And an acrylic painting? > >I don't think I have ever seen this question asked. Seems like we could >be doing overkill if artist's originals fade in 20 or 30 years under >Willhelm display conditions. > I have some water colors that I painted in the 80's that have been dark stored (just too bad to display). The paint is fine, but the paper has yellowed very badly. It wasn't arches, but one of the other "fine" watercolor papers of the day. And I have wondered... -vicki Vicki Ralls =========================================================== Xaos Gallery If Order is Life, then Xaos is Art http://members.home.net/johnralls/chaos.html =========================================================== - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.