Stretched canvas over a wooden frame

[ailbhe]

So how do I hang them on a wall? Little eyes like for wire curtains screwed into the frame, with string through for the picture hook / nail? staples? Bostik?

I have some lovely splodges of colour and I intend to hang them, but need to figure out how. Rob says they are finished now and if I do any more to them they'll disimprove, so I'll have to make new ones if I want to paint more.

And, of course, wait aeons for them to dry. I wonder if I can rig drying facilities for them up in the attic?

Comments

[rpdom.livejournal.com]

There are quite a few ways that you can hang them, but I'd probably go for your first suggestion - a couple of eyes screwed into the frame, with string, or preferably picture wire, between them.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

We tend to just screw a screw (one with a flat head, rather than one with a dome-shaped head) into the wall and hang the underside of the top bar of the wooden frame on the screw, iyswim. With just one screw, it's fairly easy to level the picture. The largest picture we have hung this way is about 2ftx2ft square. If they are larger, or your walls won't reliably hold a screw, then use a wall anchor with the screw.

[taimatsu]

...and with strange aroma, even paint may dry?

I think eye-screws might be good but they will prop the top of the canvas away from the wall, of course.

[ailbhe]

Not if I screw them inside the frame, so that they would be shadows if I shone a bright light through.

[happydisciple.livejournal.com]

The eyes as described, then hanging wire between them, and hook that over a screw.

[ailbhe]

I think I'll use nails and picture hooks. Screws pretty much always mean Rob gets the masonry drill out. (Though it *is* nice to know none of our shelves will ever, ever, ever fall down, ever).

[ailbhe]

ALL walls will reliably hold a screw by the time Rob and the masonry drill have finished with them.

[taimatsu]

Aroma? Aeons was what i typed! Damn you, autocorrect!

[happydisciple.livejournal.com]

Eyes & wire go on the frame, so no drills needed. And the "hook over screw" can indeed be "hook over nail" or "hang on hook" or...

[ailbhe]

Oh yes, I know. But it's a very *nice* masonry drill.

[ailbhe]

I googled for ages trying to source that quote. Because the canvas primer stuff smells weird, too.