Mounting canvases on??? Logistical question
Posted: July 20th, 2006, 1:54 am
To all you artists out there... I've got a question.
I've been working on 2 different pieces.
A diptych (2-piece painting) and a 4 piece painting (quadtych??? I donno if that's what you call a 4-piece painting... just guessing)
What these are are paintings that I am painting together at the same time with the same pallette which when touching each other, form a bigger painting plus each piece can stand alone.
I'm finished with them. I thought I'd hang them separately right next to each other with about a half inch or inch space in between them but it didn't look good that way.
So, what I want to do is to mount them together on something... and I don't know what... to make it look like one canvas instead of my original plan for diptych and quadtychs...
Once I have the canvases assembled and mounted, I might fill in the gaps between the paintings with caulk or something and make it look like one piece, then paint the joints so it looks like one piece.
I tried attaching the boards of the canvas frames together in the back with a piece of metal and screws but it's not working. It's bending at the seams so it's not flat.
Any ideas about what I could use to mount the canvases together to turn them into one piece instead of several?
I was thinking maybe a piece of plywood might work but I can't figure out how I'd glue the canvases to the plywood.
LR suggested masonite but I did some research on the net and I'm not sure if that would work.
Plus, I need advice as to what adhesive might work to glue the canvases to the plywood or to the ??? whatever... lol
Thanks for advice from the artists out there.
Damn... I really need a resource for LARGE canvases.. like 4 feet by 6 feet.... also non-standard shaped canvases... you know like 2 feet high by 6 feet wide...
Thanks for your advice if anybody has any ideas and/or canvas resources.
Might have to make them myself and stretch the canvas myself but boy I so do NOT want to do that! It's enough for me to try to create a painting!!!
I've been working on 2 different pieces.
A diptych (2-piece painting) and a 4 piece painting (quadtych??? I donno if that's what you call a 4-piece painting... just guessing)
What these are are paintings that I am painting together at the same time with the same pallette which when touching each other, form a bigger painting plus each piece can stand alone.
I'm finished with them. I thought I'd hang them separately right next to each other with about a half inch or inch space in between them but it didn't look good that way.
So, what I want to do is to mount them together on something... and I don't know what... to make it look like one canvas instead of my original plan for diptych and quadtychs...
Once I have the canvases assembled and mounted, I might fill in the gaps between the paintings with caulk or something and make it look like one piece, then paint the joints so it looks like one piece.
I tried attaching the boards of the canvas frames together in the back with a piece of metal and screws but it's not working. It's bending at the seams so it's not flat.
Any ideas about what I could use to mount the canvases together to turn them into one piece instead of several?
I was thinking maybe a piece of plywood might work but I can't figure out how I'd glue the canvases to the plywood.
LR suggested masonite but I did some research on the net and I'm not sure if that would work.
Plus, I need advice as to what adhesive might work to glue the canvases to the plywood or to the ??? whatever... lol
Thanks for advice from the artists out there.
Damn... I really need a resource for LARGE canvases.. like 4 feet by 6 feet.... also non-standard shaped canvases... you know like 2 feet high by 6 feet wide...
Thanks for your advice if anybody has any ideas and/or canvas resources.
Might have to make them myself and stretch the canvas myself but boy I so do NOT want to do that! It's enough for me to try to create a painting!!!
