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  zippclamp |
The Zipp Clamp (paper stretcher) is soon available again after a long absence. I am now producing it in Canada in same 3 sizes as before. Contact me if interested, at paintguy@shaw.ca. David B | ||
Kukana |
You buy it ffom CJAS. Its from arches and comes in a roll that is 44" x 10 Yards. You just wack off however big a piece you want! | ||
Anonymous |
Hi Pepsi.... Re: "I have painted on watercolor rolls as high as the roll and 5ft wide ...." Who makes that paper? Can you paint wet-on-wet and use masking fluids with it? Do you frame it under glass or do you use an acrylic spray (or something) so you don't have to frame with glass? THX Grace of FtLauderdale | ||
Carrie Stuart Parks |
Hi all, My largest paintings were about 7' long (I have done several this size.) I do stretch on a door--but I paint wet-on-wet. It is a challenge because I cannot easliy reach the top of the painting. The other big size I have done is 4' x 4'. These biggies are for lobbies and one went to a private collector. I like painting big and my husband does the stretching for me, so life is good. -Carrie | ||
Kukana |
Hey Feather, "I think im the one who sprays the back and weighs it down post" It works every time for me. I do make sure I have a piece of old, maybe scarred but fairly clean paper facing the good side of the painting when I do this. Don't jump the jump and peek too soon and check it. Give it a good couple of days. If you pull it out too soon it will be flat but will wave up again in about and hour or two if its not Bone Bone Bone dry!!! | ||
feather |
Wow, you paint 5' paintings on unstretched?!! I'm jumping on your boat. I'm not stretching again unless by gun point. From now on I'm be saving all my stretching for the hammock in my back yard! (When I was back reading old posts to this board, I read how to spray the back of a finished painting with water and weight it down evenly overnight to straighten out waves, I'd like to thank this person for that post as well.) | ||
Pepsi Freund |
I have painted on watercolor rolls as high as the roll and 5ft wide (a pretty hefty painting) and have never stretched after my first initial class in watercolor. I learned quickly to despise stretching and have painted literally hundreds of paintings since and never have I stretched any of them after that first fling. Nothing happened to the paintings as they are happily (or unhappily) hanging out somewhere else at the moment. So the need to stretch myself on a couch is the only stretching I am into now. Pepsifreund | ||
feather |
I haven't tried this paper yet, and it's not one I've included in this round of my "operation feather find". Does it scrub without marks, how about it's wash control? | ||
Kukana |
Hey feather, have you tried Strathmore Aquarius II paper. It is a synthetic paper made from fiberglass. To me it reacts simillar to a soft hot press but no matter how wet or big, it will NOT buckle!!! I love it and use it about 75% of the time. Also, thanks again for your comments on my cards(ie.making money at art) I am so excited about the oprah thing!) | ||
feather |
YAHOO!!!! I'm never going to fold and tear another sheet of paper again in my life!!!!!!... (unless I misplace my scissors again.) What a release, I feel so free, hallelujah world it's okay to cut! Already a couple of unexpected learning experiences from my paper test and I haven't even put a brush to paper yet. Thank you guys!!! P.S. I don't stretch paper above 140lbs, I'm too lazy, and I don't paint sloppy wet much. All the paper in Operation Feather Search is at least this weight. | ||
chris |
I cut my full sheets on my mat cutter unless I want a deckled edge. No one is going to see it any way so who knows or cares? I have gotten away from stretching paper before painting, and now do it afterwards if needed. Wish I could have back all those hours spent next to the bathtub on my knees!! And how about lugging those plywood boards all over the country in workshops? Anything for our art, no matter how much we must suffer! | ||
Geeky2 |
Weeelll,,, since I've never been too politically correct, let me say that I usually cut mine. If you want the deckle edge, then tearing it (wetting a line where you want it torn helps) will give you the ragged deckle look. I don't care most of the time. Earlier, you asked about stretching paper. I don't stretch regular watercolor paper 140# or above, especially smaller sizes. Just tape or clamp the corners to your board. I'm not sure about all of these handmade papers. They wouldn't have the sizing, and I'm really not sure if that makes a difference. I saw people painting on anything that didn't move (paper or plastic products) this week, so who knows what you will find out. Jean | ||
feather |
I finally finished folding and tearing the ten full sheets of different types of watercolor paper into quarters. Wow what a job, I never want to do this again. When I first started this crazy test of mine I didn't realize that folding and tearing in itself are part of the study. I found a paper that creases all over it both vertically and horizontally when bent. There was much variety with not only ease and cleaness of folds, but how each brand tore or DIDN'T want to tear. (If anyone is interested in more detail about my testing experiences let me know and I'll post the specific brands and paper types of my subjective findings as I go.) I have a question for you all: Is there a true reason why watercolor paper is torn rather than cut with sissors? Is the reason behind not cutting with sissors just "Political Correctness", or is there a specific purpose behind it? It took me two hours to bend, fold, and tear the 10 sheets. I could of been done in a half hour if I had used sissors. (I've already found a couple of brands I'm not happy with simply based on the folding and tearing exercise. Guess I'm going to have quite a lot of paper to use in my "Painting Trashy with Feather" Workshop!) Well, back to the "Operation Feather Search" lab. | ||
Feather |
I just bought 10 sheets of watercolor paper, and each sheet is made by a different company. I figured that this was more than enough samples start my own little paper test. That book called THE WATERCOLOR ARTIST'S PAPER DIRECTORY just didn't begin to cut the cheese for me, so I guess I have to figure it out the hard way from nearly scratch. So here I sit with this load of paper and I can't figure out how to tear this 300lb homemade stuff apart. It's as stubborn as alligator skin! I must look like a butterfly flapping my wings to all the neighbors, they're probably all thinking about now that I've lost my mind again. I'm either going to give up and cut this paper with sissors or get off the porch so the neighbors will stop looking at me trying to figure out what in the heck I've got myself into this time. (Actually, I have wonderful neighbors. They all are just as nosy as-all-get-out because we are regular cookout buddies, so it's okay.) How did I get so far off the subject? So.... back to the paper: I believe that I shall entitle this ambitious test project of mine "Operation Feather Search". (Yea that has a nice ring to it.) Does anyone know how to tear this stuff so I can move on to the lab work part? Flabergasted Feather | ||
Indiana |
A commercially available product known as THE ZIPP CLAMP comes in sizes up to a full sheet (22" x 30"). The set-up consists of a piece of "Gatorboard" and a set of edge clamps on which a wetted paper is clamped to dry. Multiple clamps from the ZIPP CLAMP system may be used on a larger piece of "Gatorboard". Please note,I HAVE NOT tried this, I work mostly in half sheets, however it seems to be a practical solution and you may wish to give it a try. This product is available from:www.misslink.net/cap/cap.html, or from Creative Art Products Co. P.O. Box 129, Knoxville, Il 61448, Tel 800.945.4535 |
