How To Stretch A Canvas Print - Gallery Wrap - DIY For Beginners
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Wrapping your own canvas prints can save you sooooo much money. I have been wrapping my own prints to sell at art shows and festival for many years. This is an easy and fast way to gallery wrap your giclee or regular canvas prints.
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I have a print that came folded and there are crease marks; they are not sharp creases but they are there. Will these go away when I stretch them, or do I needed to do something about them before-hand?
You can flip it over and iron it with a cool iron to take out the creases. Place it on a towel and test a corner first before you iron the entire print. I hope that helps.
@@LisaMoralesMixedMedia - Thank you, and thank you for this video!! My project came out, I think, acceptable for a first try.
My mother-in-law moved into a facility and she and my wife started picking out wall treatments. She's on a budget (she's 90) so they went the "nicest, cheapest things available" route. In this case ordered what they thought was a canvas wall-hanging but what turned out to be just a folded-up canvas. My wife was crestfallen.
She was going to send it back when I opened my big mouth and said "Let's see how much it costs to get it framed before you do that." So I went to the frame shop near our house and a $200+ estimate later, came back home and started looking for DIY options.
I found a place onine to order stretcher bars and I found your video put it all together today.
The corner folds are on random sides and I'm not convined this thing will hold up in the long run; it probably could have been streched better. But it's done and like I said, looks acceptible.
I do have to say that my first thought when I finished it and flipped it over was "That's nice; she'll like this ... I'm so glad I'll NEVER have to do this AGAIN!!" 🤣.
I'm sure I could get better at this over time; but it's just not something I want to invest the amount of time it would take for that. I have all the respect in the world for how easy you make this look!!
And while I still would never pay someone two bills to do this, I certainly understand someone asking that kind of dough to do it for me!!
Again, thank you for the video; I would have completely botched this without it!!
What canvas paper do you use if you don’t mind me asking
I don't print these canvases myself. I use Penny Lane Publishing for the printing. They print and ship to me flat and I wrap them.
Lisa Morales Mixed Media how fast is their shipping ?
@@blakeyhustle2082 Email kbenton@pennylanepublishing.com to see what their turn around is right now. They represent me for art licensing but I think if you have a hi-res image of what you want printed, they will print on demand. Not totally sure about that but Kathy can answer any questions for you.