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Eliminate the need for picture frames with gallery canvases
I love to paint and it's something I've been doing since I was 12 years old. Recently, the itch to paint has totally overcome me and I dug out my brushes and started a new painting of aspen trees.
Finding and investing in frames to hang my paintings in has always been a real headache and displaying the simple painted canvas on the wall didn't give a "finished" look.
The answer is "gallery wrapped" canvases.
These are art canvases where the canvas itself is stapled on the back of the frame instead of on the sides as was the norm in years past.
With this painting, I was able to take the background and even branches right over the side of the canvas. Who needs a frame when the art is continued to every edge?
Now, when you paint a painting, you can bring your background all the way around the sides of the canvas. What a novel idea and why didn't someone think of this decades ago!
Now, you can do your artwork and display it with pride without a frame.
This type of display works fabulously in today's popular contemporary decorating scheme as well because it keeps the look very simple and modern.
For those of you who are not artists, but would love to do something fun with a canvas like this, take your child's artwork and use modge podge (a craft product used for adhering and sealing designs to a surface) to glue it to the center of a canvas you have painted a coordinating color to your wall color.
Or try painting the entire canvas jet black then stand back the throw brilliant colors of acrylic paints with a paint brush for some dramatic and colorful art on your walls. Who needs to be an artist? Not you!
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