gaaaaaah!!! delimma time!
finished the hooker. aw, ain't she sweet?
i went to aaron bros today and found a frame i really like. so i bought it and brought it home. and now i'm totally stuck as to what comes next.
i took the glass and the backboard and all that crap out. the painting still sticks out from the back of the frame a tiny, tiny bit, so the little metal hooks you should be able to just bend over to hold the thing in are completely covered and useless.
100 points to the first actual real useful answer as to how to finish framing this thing - i've been looking for answers online and coming up with jack squat. it's frustrating because i've been on this painting for months now and just want to be completely done with it. i have the attention span of a 7 yr old with A.D.D. sometimes.
so yes - how do i get the canvas to stay in the frame, and am i supposed to do anything else with it once it's stuck into the frame? and where do babies come from?
(p.s. - don't be tellin' me where babies come from and expect 100 points for me. the points are strictly for framing answers!)
posted by Steph Calvert @ 4:16 PM
20 Comments:
Josh: Yowza.
Steph:
My parents used to own a framing shop.
There are these metal pieces you can buy separately that you wedge between the canvas and the inner part of the frame.
It holds them together and make both fit snugly.
I don't know what you call them but they are bendable metal things.
I SWEAR they have em somewhere...I will look for the name of them online and post back atcha a little later....
Aw fuck it.
I'll never find what it is online.
Best bet is to go to a store like Aaron Bros. or whatever and go to their framing supplies section, you know the one that has the eye hooks to screw in the back of the frames that don't come already suitable for hanging? It should be in the area with those and the wires.
What you are looking for are small arched, thin pieces of metal that once you flatten in between the frame and canvas, will still retain its arch, thus, holding both together.
There.
Now, to travel back in time, you must get your Dolorean up to 88 miles per hour, thereby triggering the flux compacitor...
PS- I love your hooker painting.
Awesome as always!
GAHAHAHAHAHHAA okay if someone besides josh can tell me what movie or tv show his comment came from, because he did NOT just say that out of the blue, i will give that person 50 points.
josh, no fair pretending to be someone else to get points!
trav, i'm going to the aaron bros website shortly to investigate - congrats on the 100 points!
i think if i can't get those, my plan is this: black illustration board, cut to slightly smaller than frame size, nail it all together with some very small nails i've got. is that too ghetto?
also f.y.i. to everyone, maria graced me with a tshirt purchase today and her points shot way up... be forewarned...
nope, i'm lost. can't find the things trav's talkin' about. 50 points if you can!
i dont know what the hell they're called either. i know some of those things are in that felt art i gave you last year though. they are keeping it in that frame. but dont go stealing em out of there!
and i just found out i put em in the frame WRONG!!!!! you should open that shit up and put em in like this
http://www.matshop.com/images/rearofframesL.jpg
gees im retarded!
Yeh Steph...I am sorry I don't know what the hell those things are called.
They are made specifically for canvases going into frames.
The whole "sticking out of the back" part is gonna happen regardless....but you can keep the frame together with the painting with those lil' metal things...I will find out from my dad what they're called and let you know!
okay i'm not getting it. do i look at the pic on the right or left? i should be looking at the right, right?
i can see how they work when the artwork doesn't stick out from the back of the frame, but i'm not gettin' how it works when the artwork is further out than the back of the frame... but yeah - if y'all know it'll work and can find where i can get some i'll go with it. (50 points for a link to where i can buy 'em!)
seriously, thanks so much for the info.
hey guys, scroll down to the drawing of the offset clips here. if we can't find the springy things, this will do what i want it to do, right?
or am i looking for the item at the very bottom of this page? it looks like you'd see the clamp on the side of the frame, yes?
or what about these canvas frame clips? that would work, right?
ps i forgot to mention in all of this - the solution has to work for a wood frame, not aluminum...
Steph-
You are absoolutely right...I just realized looking at the pics that the spring thingies were for metal frames only...those were the ones I was mentioning. The canvas frame clips should work perfectly though.
awesome, thanks dude! i'm shooting billions of points your way when i get home!
I hope it works out.
Lemme know if those canvas frame clips you found work for ya....
Good luck!
p.s. trav and jenn... i'm not really giving you billions of points. that wouldn't be fair. but how about 200 each for all your help?
AHHAHAHAA indian giver! but i'll take em. i just came to say i love the realistic fishnets onthe painting. i'm just now looking at it. im behind
Errr since I never frame my stuff I have no helpful advice for you! I suck--I've let down my fellow artist *hanging head in shame*
i normally don't frame my stuff, either, i just make the painting extend over onto the sides. but this one, number one the staples are on the sides instead of the back of the canvas, and number two i had to take a bunch of the staples out to do the fishnets where the stretcherbars were so it's just messy looking where we re-stapled...
just sloppy
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