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Artist: Faith Puleston
Uploaded: 11/01/09
Gallery: Fine Art
Subject: Abstract
Media: Oil

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This is one of several paintings done several years ago, and one of very few without any red! It measures 65x65cm, an odd size due to having been restretched. The original stretchers were the sort one can buy by the dozen on ebay and very substandard. I had a lot of paintings on internet-purchased stretchers and they have all been cut out of their stretchers and either restretched or discarded. I've learnt my (expensive) lesson about buying cheap stretchers, however! The procedure is very difficult because wrapping round involves wrapping a bit of the actual painting (nearly all done in oils) rather than the original raw linen or cotton. It is possible to remove a painting without cutting it, I supoose, but I lack the patience! I don't paint impasto so the results are more or less satisfactory, but involve hammering pegs into the corners and wetting the back of the canvas with cold water to get it taut! And that's a procedure that has to be repeated until the canvas has shrunk enough.
      

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  Date / Time   Name / Comments
  21-Nov-09  
  01:17 AM  
Eva Britt
  Gorgeous artwork...I love the combination of blue and green colors
  02-Nov-09  
  03:02 PM  
Margie De-Faria
  Excellent piece ...very creative.
  Artist Reply:   Thanks so much, Margie!
  02-Nov-09  
  03:20 AM  
Anneke Hut
  What beautiful colours and design, Faith!
  Artist Reply:   Thanks for the nice comment, Anneke!
  02-Nov-09  
  02:47 AM  
Calvin McFarlane
  this may sound radical and then again you may have tried this before but if the painting is good and dry nothing works as well to snap a canvas back in shape like a pot of BOILING water splashed against the back. will dry quickly and taunt. i guarantee this process to work safely and it requires one treatment only. and oh yeah, love the painting.
  Artist Reply:   Thanks, Calvin! That sounds like good sense. Up to now I've only used cold water (not quite buckets full), but I've shrunk many a woolly sweater by washing it too hot, so I'm going to boil the kettle and try your method out using the bathtub as a receptacle. One learns something new every day!!!!!
  02-Nov-09  
  12:21 AM  
Ravinder Dutt
  Great work there, but u shud never remove a painting from the stretcher by cutting it out, it damages the artwork, the nails needs to be always removed before it is done.
  Artist Reply:   You're so right, Ravinder. I have a guilty conscience about that, but in 3 cases I split the canvas or reduced the size for transport so had to trim them anyway.
  01-Nov-09  
  04:48 PM  
Anonymous Guest
  Awesome Faith! Auch - the procedure of re-stretching for me sounds very labor demanding...