How To Glue Canvas To Mat Board

This will give you a little leeway when pasting the canvas to board.

How to glue canvas to mat board.

The thicker canvases are a sheet of canvas stretched over a wooden frame. The thin canvases are a simple light weight board ideal for framing. They are ideal if you want to extend your design over the edges. The canvas can shrink a little during the drying process.

Like stretching a painting mounting can be tricky. You can mount canvas or gessoed paper to a panel or mat board. As soon as the glue is spread place the board on the backside of the canvas and press it down all over. Showing how i mount a painting on canvas onto a hard surface in this case a cradled.

Using the foam roller roll out the glue evenly over the entire surface of the gator board. Glue spread on my board. Choose a type of canvas. The edges can be trimmed up with a sharp razor blade or box cutter after the glue dries.

Carefully pick up the canvas and board and lay it down on the clean surface canvas side up. Showing how i mount a painting on canvas onto a hard surface in this case a cradled panel using pva glue. You won t need to pour out as much glue because the board is not as absorbent as the canvas. You want a thin even coat of glue from edge to edge.

Coat the other side of the hardboard with the undiluted pva and glue the canvas in the same way smoothing out from the center to the sides and then from the center to the corners. Coat mat board with gesso to prepare the surface for oil paints when using the mat board as a canvas for artwork. Make sure that there are no puddles or dry areas on the surface. Board placed on the canvas.

Coat the hardboard with the diluted glue. The thin type and the thick type. There are two main types of canvas. Adhering canvas to mat or foam board apr 29 2012 i m new to printing on canvas and playing with some different things including mounting canvas and framing as if it were paper.

Making sure the glue is all the way to the edges. A larger piece may not lie as flat in which case mounting or stretching may be called for. This will insure a good bonding of canvas to board. If using masonite rough up the surface with sandpaper.

Glue the paper on the hardboard smoothing out it from the center to the sides and then from the center to the corners. If you want to use watercolor gouache or acrylic paint for your painting there is no need to prepare the surface with gesso.