THE HATCHING METER AS A TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE WORK IN THE CHROMATIC REINTEGRATION PROCESSES

In order to achieve a reintegration that manifests a consonance and general homogeneity in all the losses present in a pictorial surface, it is important that the adjustment of the vertical streaked lines is made in an invariable way to achieve the procedural analogy. This is relatively simple when the work is carried out by a single operator, with a particular and uniform modus operandi that is defined by the quality of its stroke. However, the procedure is more complex when the interventions require the collaborative work of several restorers, especially in large-format artworks or where the size of the losses determines this circumstance. For that purpose, it is proposed a work tool that we have named “hatching meter”, which is useful to determine the calligraphy and measurement of the lines to be used in the discernible processes of chromatic reintegration by each one of the restorers involved in the intervention. This referential measurement tool is composed of a total of sixteen cells, ordered from left to right and from top to bottom, from lowest to highest tonal value or luminosity. This gradation is achieved with the modulation of what we have called LCTD variables, referring to the various parameters with which the line is constructed and which depend on its length, contour, translucency and dispersion.