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help with cracking streched canvas

Posted by lisa ark on January 29, 2011 at 1:56pm in Web Site Reviews, Internet Marketing and Tech

 

 Can anyone help me with how to save my painting! My painting is on a 1 1/2" thick stretched canvasacrylic medium, it was in my studio it must have gotten cold in there,  and now there are fine cracks through the painting. I rubbed warm water on back of canvas it seemed to help a little, the cracks are still there. I would appropriate any ideas.

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  • Larry Berman January 29, 2011 at 1:58pm

    Did a Google search and this came up at the top:

    http://www.ehow.com/how_5106229_restore-oil-painting-canvas.html

    Larry Berman
    Art Show Jury Services
    http://BermanGraphics.com
    412-401-8100

    • lisa ark > Larry Berman January 29, 2011 at 5:46pm

      You know Holly the saying when it rains it pours or something like that,  my painting with 30 hours into may be now be unsellable , we could be in New Smyrna Beach Images art show this weekend in the lovely sun and warmth, selling art, instead our furnace went had to cancel the show, there must be over 3 feet of snow that won't stop .

      If there is someone out there who has experienced  having their acrylic painting crack and fixed it, please let me know, it will make my day.Thanks for the sympathy Holly!

      • Karla Ries > lisa ark March 22, 2011 at 1:38pm

        I don't honestly know of a way to remeld the acrylic paint once the cracking has happened. Perhaps there is a way to heat it - but I'm not sure that a solution such as that might not cause additional problems.

         

        You could embrace the cracks and do an oil stain over the piece - giving it a vintage feel. You could do this by applying an oil based paint over the entire canvase (I would work in a thin application and possibly in sections) and then rubbing gently with a soft cloth to remove the stain from the main image area - leaving the stain behind mainly in the cracks.  

         

        Also I would recommend sealing it now (regardless of whether you choose to do an oil stain over the piece) so that the cracks are filled and the paint does not pull away further from the canvas.

         

        Good luck with your restoration or reinvention!

         

        -k-

         

        • lisa ark > Karla Ries March 23, 2011 at 1:09am

          Karla,

           

           Thanks for the tips! I was able to repair painting by watering down gel medium and flooding it into the cracks, it took several coats along with putting water on the non painted side of the canvas, seemed to do the trick

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