Armed with a scalpel and patience, two restoration painters scrape the old layers of paint from the Overcingel estate. The buildings of the estate in Assen will be repainted this summer and Karin Veldman and Jantina Veltman are investigating what color the building originally had.
“The woodwork is now quite white,” says Veltman RTV Drenthe. “That does not mean that it has always been like this. We search for original layers of paint to see if there is still something to be found.”
They seek those original colors by scraping away old layers of paint. Whenever they have found a new coat of paint, the restoration painters go a further coat right next to it. The two have already scratched away so-called ‘color steps’ in various places.
“A color step means that you are going to scratch away layer by layer with a scalpel blade until the wearer”, says Veldman. “That can be wood or stone. And that’s how you visualize the entire color history.”
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