How To Glue Canvas To Mat Board

The thin canvases are a simple light weight board ideal for framing.

How to glue canvas to mat board.

Glue the paper on the hardboard smoothing out it from the center to the sides and then from the center to the corners. You want a thin even coat of glue from edge to edge. Coat the hardboard with the diluted glue. A small piece of canvas will lie very flat under a mat.

If using masonite rough up the surface with sandpaper. Making sure the glue is all the way to the edges. The thin type and the thick type. Carefully pick up the canvas and board and lay it down on the clean surface canvas side up.

The thicker canvases are a sheet of canvas stretched over a wooden frame. The canvas can shrink a little during the drying process. Allow the first coat to dry then apply two or more additional coats. You won t need to pour out as much glue because the board is not as absorbent as the canvas.

Mat in front foam board in back maybe glass maybe not. This will give you a little leeway when pasting the 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. You can mount canvas or gessoed paper to a panel or mat board.

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. Showing how i mount a painting on canvas onto a hard surface in this case a cradled. There are two main types of canvas. Glue spread on my board.

Board placed on the canvas. Make sure that there are no puddles or dry areas on the surface. Choose a type of canvas. 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. They are ideal if you want to extend your design over the edges. Using the foam roller roll out the glue evenly over the entire surface of the gator board. The edges can be trimmed up with a sharp razor blade or box cutter after the glue dries.

Coat mat board with gesso to prepare the surface for oil paints when using the mat board as a canvas for artwork. Like stretching a painting mounting can be tricky.