Framing and care
Caring for a canvas painting at home
Light, humidity, dust, carrying, slack canvas and storage: the everyday care that keeps an oil or acrylic painting on canvas sound, and what to leave alone.
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Fenella Garrick
Fenella Garrick writes about framing, hanging and looking after art at home, from mat board to picture rails. She lives in Melbourne in a 1920s house with its original picture rails and firm opinions about hooks.
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Framing and care
Hanging art at home, one careful step at a time
How high to hang a picture, how to space a group, picture rails versus hooks, fixings for plasterboard, brick and old plaster, and where art should never go.
Framing and care
Framing works on paper so they last
Prints, drawings and watercolours need a different kind of frame from canvases. Mat board, hinges, glazing, spacers and backing, and what to ask your framer.