Mounting Paper Onto Canvas

Smooth the paper down with your hands to get rid of any creases or air bubbles.

Mounting paper onto canvas. One way of cutting down on weight and space when your travelling is to paint on gessoed paper or unstretched canvas. Custom mounting of art includes drawings oil paintings watercolors prints photographs digital prints on paper and paintings made on canvas and linens. Showing how i mount a painting on canvas onto a hard surface in this case a cradled panel using pva glue. Michael s website http michaelking ca enjoy the.

Smooth the photo onto the canvas that you just coated with mod podge. However if you wish to add other three dimensional elements it s fine to continue working. By painting on loose paper or unstretched canvas i haven t invested a lot of money in my surface. You can mount canvas or gessoed paper to a panel or mat board.

A small piece of canvas will lie very flat under a mat. First apply a thin coat of your adhesive to the canvas using a wide flat paintbrush. A larger piece may not lie as flat in which case mounting or stretching may be called for. Just remember which sections of the canvas are already wet or.

Transfer the paper onto the canvas. Use a thin coat of watered down gel medium to adhere the paper to the canvas. Mounting paper onto canvas and other supports by nancy reyner jan 25 2011 blog 75 comments often artists will create a drawing or sketch on paper and then want to adhere it later to a stretched canvas to create a stronger support and even to continue working on it adding subsequent layers of paint. Another benefit is that you can just tos.

But if i love it i can mount it and frame it for a very professional look. To adhere paper to canvas you ll need a decoupage glue like mod podge or an acrylic medium. Like stretching a painting mounting can be tricky. Then line up your paper and place it on the canvas.

Art on paper can also be mounted on canvas or linen and stretched over conventional canvas stretcher bars or mounted to our archival panels. Gatorboard is dense durable and relatively lightweight. Use a foam brush and acrylic paint to paint the outside edges of the canvases and a little bit onto the front. If i hate the piece i can toss it out without guilt.

Use a second foam brush apply a medium even layer of mod podge over the entire front of the canvas. All things being equal i ve found paper to be a third the cost of my homemade gessoed panels.