Print Presentation

[Drew Wiley]

I never realized pinning a print to a board was a European custom. I've always associated it with trailer camps and Elvis rugs.

[MIke Sherck]

I never realized pinning a print to a board was a European custom. I've always associated it with trailer camps and Elvis rugs.

Hold on a minute, everyone: I want to make some popcorn.

[mdm]

drymount "tissue" is somewhat stiff, not like "tissue" at all really. I'm wondering if you actually have what's called release paper or tissue, used between the artwork and overlay mountboards when pressing to keep any seeping drymount tissue from causing the artwork to stick to these overly boards.

Very possible, except it is not waxy as described on youtube. It is much like very thin blotting paper and scratching around in the box I see it came from carter holt harvey, a local paper and packaging manufacturer so it may be blotting paper or substitute release paper. It did stick to the back of a print briefly when I pinned it to the back with a hot soldering iron but that was only briefly, no lasting bond. Anyway I have some tissue and release paper on the way.

[mdm]

A print board is a very sensible way of deciding if a print has legs.

[Drew Wiley]

I have a mock gallery wall to look at things fully framed before they go out, but also a choice of light banks to simulate various actual display conditions. The
former is under remodeling, but might get replaced by a formal showroom/gallery setting anyway. One step at a time. My former in-house studio is now a feline
hospital. My wife is into animal rescue. The lab and picture framing facility is in its own dedicated building, off limits to felines.