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Leading Glasgow Boy artist Crawhall here embraces a sense of late 19th-century modernism through a watercolour of his sister Beatrice, on a bicycle.
Visiting artists soon “discovered” him and were impressed by the untutored directness of his seascapes and repeated depictions of St Ives. To make sure the canvas was adhered well, with no bumps or bubbles, I used a Speedball rubber brayer. v=1694610995","width":800},{"alt":null,"id":22512611459146,"position":8,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1. A small piece of cardboard or plastic credit card works well to spread the glue or medium over the surface of the fabric. Eighteenth-century maverick Angelica Kauffman knew the answer when she looked back on the struggles of her younger self to create this painting.This means they will be re-adhered to the canvas as a protective measure, using careful conservation techniques. Turn the canvas over so that it is facing right side up, placing a book underneath the patch that is the same height as the stretcher bars so that the canvas is supported at the site of the tear.
With its suggestion of BDSM, this self-portrait continues that subversion of porn and consumer culture’s tropes. The 'secret' to repairing a tear in a canvas is to do it from the back of the canvas, not the front.
Priming is a barrier between the paint you will apply and the cotton or linen canvas, without primer the paint would eventually deteriorate the bare canvas. The culture clash that underpinned Cranach’s art – German courtly splendour and strait-laced religious reformation – powers a magnetic imagining of Jewish heroine Judith displaying the head of Assyrian general Holofernes.