tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post6336256421248265703..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Canvas size and proportionStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-34455648182716836702009-05-25T20:37:10.730-04:002009-05-25T20:37:10.730-04:00Jeff;
When I was in Paris painting I went to the S...Jeff;<br />When I was in Paris painting I went to the Sennelier store on the Seine near Notre Dame to buy stretchers. I asked if anyone spoke English and they called an older guy out of the back room. He and I went down to the cellar, where the stretchers were stored in big racks.. They didn't sell individual stretchers.You bought 4 assembled. They came in numbered standard French sizes. I had brought along an English system tape measure and I bought sizes that were larger than a standard American size. When I got home I would restretch the canvases on American size stretchers. After I had finished I thanked the man for being so helpful and introduced myself. He was Jaques Sennelier. <br />...........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-19580109612386911992009-05-25T18:04:00.747-04:002009-05-25T18:04:00.747-04:00Armand;
I always wondered how they would explain t...Armand;<br />I always wondered how they would explain that they had sold your frame, but still hadn't sold your painting.There's something ominous there. I think they might stick you for it somehow.<br />...........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-49506196507682222562009-05-25T18:01:15.831-04:002009-05-25T18:01:15.831-04:00Deb:
I wear the same thing every day, paint splatt...Deb:<br />I wear the same thing every day, paint splattered jeans and a <br />t shirt, often with the name of a rock and roll band on the front. Today's was the Paladins.<br />.....StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-84212013188052522992009-05-25T12:08:17.280-04:002009-05-25T12:08:17.280-04:00The Winterhalter's are very fine paintings indeed....The Winterhalter's are very fine paintings indeed. You forgot to mention the whale bone frames that held those dresses up and the corsets.<br />I think it took ages for them to get dressed, and they needed help to do so.<br /><br />There are some very nice self portraits from the late 18th century by Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Le Brun and Adleaide Guiard in which both are painting in some very fancy dresses. Guiard is by far over the top with her regalia.<br /><br />I have book on Anne Vallayer-Coster, one of my favorite still life painters, and there is a portrait of her in some very expensive finery. Clothes defined your status in these periods.<br /><br />Coster being one of Queen Marie-Antoinette's court painters must have been always dressed to max.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-14360605836305324392009-05-25T11:56:55.979-04:002009-05-25T11:56:55.979-04:00Someone should inform the galleries that taking fr...Someone should inform the galleries that taking frames that the artist paid for is stealing. Unless they want to buy the frames. I like the idea of using your name on the back with a sharpie.<br /><br />The other thing is that there is a ratio of the horizontal and the vertical that is appealing to the us subconsciously, which 16 x 20 seems to fall into. If your in Europe, where they use metrics you would be buying 40 cm x 50 cm stretchers which is not quite 16 x 20.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-12436591288882681862009-05-25T09:49:45.232-04:002009-05-25T09:49:45.232-04:00Stapleton,
Geat post. I had a similar situation w...Stapleton,<br /><br />Geat post. I had a similar situation with galleries taking my better frames for other artists paintings. I solved the problem by writing my name on the back of the frame with a large black marker.armandcabrerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01772142818316748471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-85866418798391681282009-05-25T08:42:09.565-04:002009-05-25T08:42:09.565-04:00You're right, Stape. Those dresses are never comin...You're right, Stape. Those dresses are never coming back. Heck, I don't even buy anything that has to be either dry cleaned or ironed, neither of which is likely to happen at my house. And since, for me anyway, all clothes eventually become paint clothes (whether intended or not) it is better to stick with simpler attire. Can you imagine trying to get alizarin out of that fabric? <br />Oh, and the post at hand? I like 11x14 for small and 24x36 for larger. All the long horizontals, 12x24's, etc. are nice sometimes too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799016923038189074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-29964170913811295002009-05-25T08:27:46.706-04:002009-05-25T08:27:46.706-04:00Wilek;
There is a series of posts on framing out t...Wilek;<br />There is a series of posts on framing out there in the future. They drive me crazy, always getting damaged. The client always wants a different one. When Stapleton rules the world,frames will be made of wrought iron.<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-32575352209668496002009-05-25T08:06:24.467-04:002009-05-25T08:06:24.467-04:00Nice post Stape. Practical. Sensible. Frames have ...Nice post Stape. Practical. Sensible. Frames have always been a problem for me. Now I buy two styles of wide (3") frame stock in two colors (Dark Brown and Dirty Gold) and cut my own with a crude jig for my table saw. I join them with a framer's clamp, glue, and colored panel nails. They are crude but acceptable. But it complicates my life and takes my attention away from the task at hand. <br /><br />BTW, that dark frame? It is really nice. Sometimes I find myself painting for the frame. Willekwillekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.com