I've beveled the edges and attached the permanent mounting frames on the back. HUGE relief, as I spent all of last year NOT dealing with those two things, just planning on figuring something out later. I was able to split 2" x 4"s at a 30 degree angle to make a french cleat for hanging. This from a 15+ year old $120 table saw, and it cut easily.
After I do a couple small client jobs, I will make back mounts for the small pieces, and then will still have a couple weeks to paint/finish how ever many of them I can. These were originally a secondary consideration to the larger pieces, but now I'd like to have a slew of them. I almost want to do an installation now, and jump the painted surface with 3-d augmentation for the show. That almost always dilutes the tension and concentrated energy of the paintings though.
I also need to write a statement and also think of titles. I'm going to try to drop the numbers and letters and use actual, or pretend, words.
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Have we talked about how these could resemble trophies?
Or how many tole-painted picnic basket lids were killed during the filming of this?
That's a good thing. I like.
I like how the small ones slip into some sort of craft zone. Hadn't thought of trophies, but am now.
French cleats, pretend words, craft zones. Exciting.
Never a dull moment.
Well, the French cleat IS of interest to me because apparently, if I ever want my flatsies and poofsies hung, I will have to somehow fashion some. Or have some abler person do it.
(And the pretend words and craft zones and trophies ARE truly exciting to me.)
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