Stretched canvas prints look beautiful with or without frames. All stretched canvases ship within 3 - 4 business days and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails. Your image gets printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.īring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Grants Farm- St.Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides.What I love about this project is that you can make this piece as big or small as you would like and it makes such a big, yet subtle impact! Once you are happy with your texture, let it dry, and watch the piece come to life! The Final Productįrom start to finish this project takes maybe 15-20 minutes, not including dry time. Try to use organic swiping motions and mixing it with a more rigid straight section to give a better variation. There is no real technique for this part. Don’t worry if you mess up, you can smooth it over, and try again! Small ones, sharp ones, squared ones, and rounded ones. The decorating comb has different serrated edges that you can play around with. For this project I used a plastic knife that I had leftover from a birthday party and my secret weaponis to use a cake decorating icing smoother comb. Using your fingers can add some great texture. To add texture, you can use almost anything you have on hand, quite literally. The Spackle will stay pink until it dries. This is why I love using DAP DryDex with the dry time indicator. In this step we want to add the texture before the Spackle dries. Don’t worry about being perfect, this is an imperfect art project! If you get it on the frame, it wipes right off.ĭon’t worry it won’t stay pink the entire time, lol. For this step I use a flat edge spackle or putty knife or you can use anything you have on hand that has a straight edge.Ĭover the entire canvas with the Spackle. I found that a thicker application makes it easier to create texture later on. Smear and spread a thick layer of Spackle on to your canvas. I wanted to keep this as simple as possible so I took the risk and skipped this step. You can also tape the edges of your frame to protect it. I didn’t prep my canvas, but you can prime it if your under layer is a darker color. If your canvas is not framed check out my super simple tutorial on how to frame a canvas. I chose to up cycle and use an old framed canvas that I had laying around. This canvas can be a plain stretched canvas frame or you can repurpose an old canvas and frame. Here are a few super simple steps to make your own unique piece of art: Step One- A Blank Canvas You can use anything you have on hand, heck, you can even use your hands. For this step, you don’t need any fancy tools.
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