BobBlast 189 - "A Contemporary Way to Frame and Exhibit your Modern Works on Paper."
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- A Contemporary Way to Frame and Exhibit your Modern Works on Paper.
Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!
This is an ancient technique, but uses today's technology and new materials. Instead of framing my acrylic paintings - buying costly mats and mounting in old style frames and behind glass - the galleries that exhibit my work prefer my new look.
After a coat of fresh varnish, I glue my painting on a Cheap Joe's 1.5 inch deep wood panel. The end result is visually modern and clean looking, light weight and no heavy glass to break (or Plexiglas to scratch). And much easier to handle for shipping. The overall benefits might encourage you to produce more paintings, avoiding the high cost of framing.
Let me point out - not everyone will agree with me on this technique. It has worked twenty years for me... and here is a Step-by-Step, so you can do it yourself!
Materials:
Cheap Joe's Pretty Good Cradled Wood Panel - 1.5" deep
Dark grey paint
Gel Medium
Half-inch thick piece of Gatorboard
Plastic sheet
Weight
Paper towels
1. Work with the Wood Panel first - Paint the four side edges and one inch all around the top edge with a dark grey paint.
2. The paper painting has already been pre-measured and trimmed a half-inch smaller than the panel - so when the paper painting is glued on top, a narrow strip of the top dark grey surrounds the paper. The painting appears to "float" on top. I don't align the paper edge to the edge - too difficult to line up perfectly. Besides, I like a little bit of the dark edge showing.
3. Glue down using regular gel medium. Flatten and roll out any air bubbles, then wipe off the excess gel medium with a damp cloth.
4. Next, sandwich all this together to assure a tight bond - on top of the painting, put a sheet of 4 ml no-stick plastic sheeting and a half-inch piece of Gatorboard, to act as a press. Now comes the weight for the press - anything from bricks to gallon cans of water, books, etc.
5. After 24 hours, disassemble the weight, board, plastic sheet (save for the next time) and the whole assembly will be complete!
The whole mounting time is under 10 minutes... then wait for 24 hours. Don't skip any step. It will be surprisingly perfect!
Mount the back with hanging hardware and off to the gallery it goes! This all sounds like a cooking recipe because I actually read cookbooks... pitiful.
They say, your heart shows in your art work. Your enthusiasm is infectious! So much fun...love it! Thank you for sharing 😄
Bob, you are amazing! Thank for this idea! I love how the paintings look after.
I'm a freelance artist with a history in frameshop work and I have to admit, I was MORTIFIED at the thought of gluing my artwork to anything. In case any of you have the same fear, I suggest buying some double-sided artist tape. It's sturdy and reliable and most importantly... easily removable if something goes sideways. In either case, the outcome is clean and very modern! Thanks for the tips, Bob. :)
Thanks Bob for easy how to mount on canvas. I took one of your workshops at Cheap Joes-with my daughter, Jeni. We had a blast. I used your workbook to teach from this past week, and showed my students your "permission slip". I teach watercolor at the Roswell Visual Arts Center in Roswell, GA. I will always be a student as we never can learn enough about art, can we? Thanks for being a good role model for teaching. I am all about the fun, therapeutic process--and if it doesn't work out like I like, I make book markers.
Bless you for your generosity in teaching us such wonderful techniques and great supplies to use. Thank you!
This is my first intro to you Bob. I love the way you relate!-so natural and pleasant. God bless you! yay for great teachers/instructors!
That's wonderful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge in a funny way!
Thank you for this wonderful tip.
Bob....you make art n life simple...thank you so much for your contagious smile and videos.
Outstanding tip! Thanks, Bob!
Brilliant idea thank you!
You are so welcome! Thank you. This is not a new idea. Rothko did this too, for his paper pieces.
this is so great, thank you Bob so much, I am so happy I found you, I love watching your videos
Awesome , thank you Bob, love your videos, always so fun and educational.
I'm not an artist or a painter...at least not yet, just gathering whatever supplies needed for pours. But aren't you a sweetheart for sharing your expertise with us? I'm sure it took many tries to get it to what you're sharing with us, total strangers. 82 and counting.
I subs to your channel i am on here to learn how to paint. Someone recommend me this man's channel and i am watching it all day. He is amazing and glad i find his channel.
I love it. Merci!
Thank you!
Jeez Bob, here I am at the beginning of 2023, just catching up with you and your brilliant videos. This one is going to be so good for me - it's exactly the finish I prefer! Thank you for all your advice and demos, I'm retired now and so enjoying having time to throw paint around, it's great fun! Happy New Year to you and yours from Bonny Scotland :)
Very, very helpful Bob! Thank you.
Your generosity is overwhelming. I am hooked on your Blasts~
Thank you.
Oh I love you Bob Burridge! Thank you for always sharing your knowledge! You are awesome! Your work is great too. : ))
Thanks for sharing ,, you're an inspiration in every way, x Bonnie, South Africa
Thank you Bob - you are awesome!
Bob is a blast! Thanks much
You are so fun to watch! Thank you for this tip! I am a new seller of my paintings, so I am very happy to take this information. Thank you!
Great piece of advice. Thank you!
Thanks for this great demonstration. I do a lot on paper and don't want to spend a bunch on frames, glass, mattes. So this is excellent information.
Awesome presentation Bob, cheerful fella..thats the way man... Aloha and thank you so much for sharing and the smiles.. cheers :)
Great video Bob! Very informative!👍😁
Thank you Bob for this most informative video. It answered some questions as to what kind of substrate to use.
You are fabulous!
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Brilliant !!
I learn so much from you !! Thank you !
Great ideas Bob!!
Thank you Bob That's great!!
Thank you sharing this great tip I will be using it in the future
You are brilliant.
Thank you for this video. I’m new to painting watercolor and a friend has encouraged me to enter one of my pieces in a contest. I have already ordered my cradled panel and I’m excited to try this framing method. All your videos are great!
Thanks. You are just full of good info.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. You make me want to paint. 👍👍👍
Bob, you are a genius as a painter and a market expert.
Wonderfull and thank you for writing Down the exact names of the materials you prefer
Thanks Bob !
Love it!! X
Awesome! Thank you so much!
Thank you! 😍
having a bad day at art school and this just made my day, i love your personality and this video! so helpful
Great ideas!! But, some of my Canvases are BIG...Then what??
Thank you for sharing your great
tips with us...♥️
I've always been a DIY-er and I can see how framing and delivery can simply be a matter of personal choice and preferences. Here in China because I don't have a great command of the language - I end up doing almost everything DIY. High quality art supplies are cheap (which is awesome) and most shops and galleries expect the artist to deliver all of their work as Robert is doing here. Thanks for posting another excellent video !
Are you able to Sell Art there??
@@dovespaligrino8312 Yes.
Loooooooove Bob♥️
Thank you for the information😌
Bob is genius
Brilliant, thank you!
Thank you!
I just met your enthusiastic videos, we are in quarantine in Italy.... good torna presto see you...pity I chose watercolor just some months ago, but still interesting your acrylics!!!
Thank you so much- this is fantastic!
Thank you!
This is a great tip! I love to paint on paper but to ship one in a frame is just too expensive. Thanks so much! 😀👍
Thx Bob!
Yes thank you ! Frames seem to break the bank!
Bob, you are amazingly generous. I've learned so much from your videos. Thank you, thank you. A great teacher and person.
Thank you love it
THANK YOU
Thank you for the great tips. Love your use of colour too. ❤️
Thank you Marie!
@@RobertBurridge do you think I can do this with my giclée prints and if so, should I put medium over top of them to protect them?
I love this 💞💞 thank you so much for sharing..gonna definitely do this with my art..🤣🤣🤗
saw some of your flower paintings in the background of a TV series - 'The Closer'!
Como me gusta y qué artista más grande y generoso. Than You.
thank you sir...
Ha ha ha! Love it!
Love your tips and advice. I want to mount some paintings I've done on panels to a cradled birch panel - MDF to wood... What medium should I use to glue MDF to wood? Thanks so much :)
wonderful pear
Thanks 😍
ES USTED MUY SIMPATICO ,,Y LO ESPRICA CON MUCHO ENTUCIASMO
Great idea! I tried this...and have loved the results BUT last time I was low on gel and ended up with air bubbles in the middle and a lousy adhesion all around. Any ideas for remedy? I've reglued what I could reach but of course the big bubbles are in the middle. Love your videos. There's always something to learn.
I've been getting up to speed on Gouache on paper. I'm about 50 in and they're starting to look like something. I was wondering how I could present them for my gallery and ship for on-line sales. I'm doing exactly this! It's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
Hi Bob, Just wanted to say, you look good, have you been doing the healthy thing? Last I checked your vides you appaired very tired. Was a bit concerned. All the best to you and Kate. Tim S
Hi Bob. Thanks for this tip. I am trying to determine what to do to display some 11 x 15 #140 watercolor pieces in a gallery. They are not modern. Have you experienced any push back for this method? I also watched your piece using mat, backer and bags and wonder if I could adhere a hanger on bag for temporary use.
thank you. will try with smaller canvas. Where do you order your gel medium?
The painting with the pear, its woodboard? Do you use both wood and gainerboard? Thanx. Great work
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Looks good. I am thinking that you have used about $6.00 worth of thick gell medium. What medium are you using that is actually affordable? Thanks.
What do your varnish the 300 lb paper with after you have painted it?
Thanks for showing this process and how you adhere the paper to the boards. But seems to me the boards, particularly the larger ones, can get pretty pricey too. Have you found that Cheap Joe's are the best pricing around? Do you also mount non-contemporary images the same way? I wish I could afford to do your workshops. Can you do a video some time on how you contact and present your art to galleries, what price points you give them and so on? Much appreciate all your videos and work. Also do you get a gallery to first approve an image before you mount the work, or do you mount everything regardless?
Yes - Cheap Joe's Cradled Panels are my "go to" for the panels I glue my paper paintings on.
What type of 300 lb paper do u use? E.g. Watercolor or mixed media... thanks
Great tip! Do you this for watercolour as well?
What kind of black paint on the edges? Do you varnish it as well?
Oh Bob! You are a fountain of information .... thanks again
Hello! Can I use gel medium to glue Polyester canvas to masonite panels too?? I glued them first time and got so much bubbles on them, i think cause i didn't use a roller? The wrinkles came through a few weeks later and trying to figure this out :(
Love this technique Bob... and your teaching are priceless, God bless you.
One question. You show us how to glue the paper art to the gatorboard, but then how do you glue it to the wood panel? The same glue ? It's going to be on top like the same size? Or leaving 1/2 inch too?
I'm not sure if you glue the painting to the gatorboard or to de wood panel 🤔
This is so helpful! Thank you! Will the gel medium work for mounting canvas sheets to a panel as well?
Yes it will
@@RobertBurridgeBobBlast fabulous! Thank you!
Question...how does it dry without air getting to it? I make a lot of cards out of paintings and scraps but drying them and flattening them seems to be a problem. If I press between plastic they don't dry but if I leave them unpressed they ripple.... Eeerrrrr. Do yours dry because the wood allows access to air? Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Lara.
I'm curious about figuring the size of paper vs the size of the panel so that there's a consistent edge around the paper art. Also how in the world do you make sure the paper is square and even on the panel when gluing it down. I have a lot of Bob's videos and books and watch the blasts, but am a math dunce and have troubles getting my work glued down on the panel evenly and square.
It looks to me like he deckles (or cuts) the paper originally to 1/4" smaller all around than the wood panels he uses, but that depends on how much of a border you want. You might want less border on small works and larger borders on larger works. He generally paints on the same sizes for his smaller pieces, so he always knows what size the panels are and trims his paper accordingly. If you visit his website (robertburridge.com), you can pull up his pages of original small paintings to see what sizes he generally uses (like 6x9 or 10x10 etc). As for making sure the paper is even on the panel, he just eyeballs it. If you can get one corner looking good, generally speaking the others will be good too, assuming you cut your paper properly. If you lay the panel down on the paper first and draw around it, you just need to make sure you cut the paper smaller than your outline, depending on how large a border you want. You can also try putting the matte medium on 1/2 of the sheet only and working with only half the surface at a time; then when you are certain all is well, put the medium on the rest of the paper and panel with more confidence. Just a thought. He has a video on how he deckles his paper you might want to watch - czcams.com/video/QaG6zUVpxJ8/video.html. It's just a matter of measuring everything first carefully and making sure of your work before cutting. Click on the "Videos" tab at the top of this page and scroll through his videos to find all his videos.
Check the sizes available at Cheap Joes or Blick and then tear the paper slightly smaller in size ..about an inch both directions and that should work! For example if your panel is 12x12" a common size then rip your paper 11x11"
Will this technique work mounting on canvas? Thanks!
if your painting daily ,how do you store your wet canvas to work on a new canvas in a small space studio ?
Maybe put a few coats of Gamblain Cold Wax on the face.......I think seal the edges with Liquitex Satin Varnish. Worked for me:) Thanks so much for posting.
Where did u get the big container of gel medium?
Thanks Bob. Have been watching you for a long time. When are you coming back to Texas? I have been trying to get in a workshop class but full!!! May I ask, I’m sure you e said a hundred times, what kind of paper do you use?
arianeedm He uses 300lb watercolor paper!😁
Hi Bob,can you use this framing tecqnique with a pastel painting. Toni
Can canvas sheet be mounted this way, too?
Hey bob, what kind of paper do you use to paint on. Thanks . Love your videos.
He uses Fabriano 300 lb. - not sure of brand, but it is 300 lb.
Fabriano Artistico 300#
Hey Sue - Sorry for the slow response! My favorite watercolor paper is Fabriano Artistico.
I use Fabriano Artistico and Cheap Joe's Kilimanjaro.
I’ll try
Hello!! I would like to ask something. Why to paint on prepared paper and glue it on the board while you can prepare a board and paint directly on it?
I think : You don’t want to waste board in case if painting unsuccessful… thats what I am assuming
Can I use this on large poster?