The Ultimate Canvas Piece
This is truly the finest canvas product in the world.  Your unique wall portrait is finished meticulously with artwork to enhance your portrait and would be difficult to compare to anything else. 
 
The History:
There are many reasons that stretched canvas is an ideal surface to portray images.  Artists discovered, hundreds of years ago that nothing is “flatter” than a stretched string.   By weaving many cords together, a canvas could be made and stretched over a frame to receive their image.   A two dimensional image is best viewed flat.  With this multi layer process, the canvas image appears to have an extra dimension.  Also, when the Egyptian tombs were opened, the woods, and leathers had deteriorated, but the cloths were intact and strong.
 
This Custom Canvas Mounting is used by some of the best in the Photographic Profession and Art Galleries around utilizing the McDonald "Lamin-All" system.  The Laminal system is widely considered to be the most artistic method in use for canvas mounting.  This is the original canvas mount system, developed by the McDonald Corporation in the 1960's using Doug McDonald's #One Press, that helped pioneer the canvas process.  Our canvasser has vast experience in the art and craft of canvas mounting and specializes in canvas mounting.  It is a highly specialized craft requiring extensive knowledge and experience. It is, in a sense, an imperfect science where every roll of canvas varies in texture and requires special attention. Ward Whitmire, manager of the Canvas Mount Services Department, is acknowledged nationwide as one of the few experts in the field, as well as his father.
 
The Method:
Canvas mount and stretched over stretcher frames
 
Special canvases are chosen to obtain a “random weave” A unique method of “drawing in” the “head areas” on the canvas in order to prepare it to receive the images.   Many rolls of canvas come with a curved “bias”.  This has to be straightened and squared for the best product.  With heavy sized canvas this often requires heating and repressing, and consumes considerable time.  Stretcher bars are custom-made and are “rabbit” joined at the corners on smaller sizes.  Larger sizes utilize a specially designed heavy wooden bar that we feel is superior to the normal manufactured stock.  Where needed, center braces and corner gussets are installed.  The back side of our canvas is pre-sized (coated), and we actually add another coat of sizing at the exact appropriate time to facilitate accurate stretch-drying and humidity resistance.
 
Lacquer spray
Before stripping the resin coat backing from your print, and applying Lamin – All adhesive, a seal coat of lacquer is applied on your print.  Matte lacquer is used at this time because of its binding qualities.
 
Hand brushed acrylic layer
This is applied to increase the toughness of your finish.  It is applied by hand, very thin, and brushed in-between layers of Matte lacquer.  These layers produce a very tough coating, far more protective than lacquer alone.  Overnight drying is necessary in between layers.  Please Note: your portrait is not made to look like the image details were painted in, unless requested to do so.  The time tested procedure is to brush it on very thin and create a fine brushed texture.  After finish lacquers are applied, you can barely tell that there is a brushed layer, but it is there, and adds a certain depth to the portrait.
 
Glazing for tone control
This is an oil glaze specially mixed with oils, turpentine, and linseed oil.  It is normally mixed to a neutral tone with burnt umber and lampblack, but can be mixed to blend and enhance colors.  Its main purpose is to lower contrast levels of background areas, to darken small “hot spots” and, in skilled hands, actually increase contrast in some areas.
 
Multi-coat finish lacquers
This is the last procedure in finishing your canvas portrait.  To really seal a print, it is necessary to apply several coats of thin layers with drying time in-between.  First a Matte lacquer to seal and bind everything underneath. Then luster layers.  About 5 or 6 coats of Luster will gain an even sheen.
 
Experience the ultimate in print finishing.  You will be justly proud of this investment of your family’s pictorial mural.  It is indeed the heirloom to be admired for generations and will become more valuable each day.  An investment your family will always cherish.  Order this one today!
 
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