Painting Tip r Tool

Q: Love the look of your Masterworks frames! When you frame your paintings yourself, how do you back them? And how do you attach them to the frame?

A: Having a dedicated tool box for framing supplies can speed up the process. 

In the early 90’s a wise young gallery director told me I might want to switch from using finishing nails to attach my paintings to a frame (when I was painting on canvas with stretcher strips) to clips that could be screwed to the frame only.

Frame---Master-Works-Corner-Screws

Nailing through the stretcher strips he said could cause future cracks in the thicker paint strokes from the hammering.

That worked out great, especially once I painted primarily on panels.

I soon discovered that I needed a variety of sizes to accommodate the different depths of the frames’ rabbets.

Here is how I keep the different sizes organized:

Framing-Toolbox-&-Clips

Inside I keep a roll of wire and cutters. I’ll talk about that in future ‘Tip R Tools’.

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