How To Glue Canvas To Mat Board

Board placed on the canvas.

How to glue canvas to mat board.

Make sure that there are no puddles or dry areas on the surface. There are two main types of canvas. If you want to use watercolor gouache or acrylic paint for your painting there is no need to prepare the surface with gesso. The thicker canvases are a sheet of canvas stretched over a wooden frame.

A larger piece may not lie as flat in which case mounting or stretching may be called for. Mat in front foam board in back maybe glass maybe not. Showing how i mount a painting on canvas onto a hard surface in this case a cradled panel using pva glue. Glue the paper on the hardboard smoothing out it from the center to the sides and then from the center to the corners.

The thin type and the thick type. The edges can be trimmed up with a sharp razor blade or box cutter after the glue dries. Showing how i mount a painting on canvas onto a hard surface in this case a cradled. The thin canvases are a simple light weight board ideal for framing.

You won t need to pour out as much glue because the board is not as absorbent as the canvas. Using the foam roller roll out the glue evenly over the entire surface of the gator board. Like stretching a painting mounting can be tricky. Carefully pick up the canvas and board and lay it down on the clean surface canvas side up.

The canvas can shrink a little during the drying process. As soon as the glue is spread place the board on the backside of the canvas and press it down all over. Glue spread on my board. This will insure a good bonding of canvas to board.

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. They are ideal if you want to extend your design over the edges. Coat the hardboard with the diluted glue. Choose a type of canvas.

Coat mat board with gesso to prepare the surface for oil paints when using the mat board as a canvas for artwork. If using masonite rough up the surface with sandpaper. 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.

Allow the first coat to dry then apply two or more additional coats. A small piece of canvas will lie very flat under a mat.