How To Fix A Tear In A Painting

No matter how conscientious we are with our artwork, canvas paintings tin go damaged. Some of the near famous paintings in the world have sustained impairment over the years and have needed repairs made to the canvas. What at starting time tin seem like a consummate disaster, is in fact usually repairable, so let me evidence y'all how to prepare a damaged or ripped canvas painting.

* If your painting just has a dent in information technology, read how to get a dent out of a painting here.

The impairment above happened when a friend was visiting my studio and accidentally knocked over a wooden print stand, the corner of which went right through this painting that was on the floor leaning up against the wall. You can come across the damage to the canvas was quite substantial, not only had the rip gone right through the painting, but the canvass had torn in two directions, both diagonally and horizontally.

You can see here that the fibres of the sail were pulled apart when the harm occurred, leaving a jagged uneven border.

If this painting were a priceless Rembrandt I would align all of the individual fibres of the canvass and glue each one back together separately. However, this painting is priceless Chris Chalk, and as he (me) is still here to repaint the damaged area after the repair, I can make a simpler repair.

To repair a damaged or torn sheet painting you lot'll need:

• • a piece of canvas the aforementioned ( or at least like) to that of the original canvas.
  • a pair of sharp scissors.
  • some acid free mucilage (in this instance PVA – Polyvinyl acetate).
  • a apartment piece of MDF or hardboard.
  • a weight or something heavy to utilize as a weight.

Kickoff using your scissors to cut a piece of your spare sail to make a patch. Make certain when you do this the patch is large enough to cover the damaged expanse of the painting, plus at least 3cm extra overlap, then that the patch tin exist glued to plenty of undamaged sail effectually the tear. In one case you've cut your patch to the right size, apply PVA gum to one side of it.

With the painting laying face-downward on a clean apartment hard surface, offer-upwards the sheet patch to the dorsum of the painting and push information technology down into position. Brand certain you lot've applied plenty PVA gum so that every office of the patch is glued to the original sail. If y'all have any excess PVC that go's pushed out from nether the patch simply wipe information technology up with a moisture textile, PVA is water soluble and cleans-upward easily.

Make sure the new patch is in the correct position and that the damaged area of the canvas is under the eye of the new patch. You tin meet here, because the impairment to my painting was near the edge of the painting, to reach that I've had to push button role of my new patch nether the wooden stretcher-bar.

In one case the patch is placed in the correct position we need to place another apartment surface downwardly onto the back of the patch and then that as the mucilage dries it creates a perfectly flat repair. I'k using a thin sheet of hardboard to practise this.

Once again, because the damage in my case is very near the border of the painting, I have had to push the thin sheet of hardboard I'm using betwixt the original sheet and the wooden stretcher-bars, not simply in the middle of the painting, but also on the right-paw border.

Source: https://www.chrischalkart.com/painting_blog/how-to-repair-a-damaged-or-torn-canvas-painting/

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