OMG! I just realized.... You are the modern day Mr. Rogers!! I meant that as a compliment. Like when he (Mr. Rogers)went around to places to show us what they do. Whoa
As a fine art framer, I’m so thrilled to see this video - ethical and informative. I would never cut a painting either. Simon is correct, you always need the artist’s permission. This is wonderful! 💝
Thank you for another video putting the spotlight on craftsmanship! So much artistry has been lost over the years with our “instant” society. Your work educating people, as well as sharing your own artistry with us all is such important work. Invaluable actually. Thank you for your mission to share and provide beauty to the world.💙
This is a very special video indeed. I never knew what went into framing a painting before so thank you for such an interesting insight today. And I loved the expertise and love that Simon put into the process.
Wow, I didn't know about these things. I always wondered how they preserve those famous paintings like the one in Louvre as so many tourists visit. That was generous of Simon to share his knowledge with us. Thank you Rajiv for taking us yet on another wonderful journey of creativity.
Doing what you truly love regardless of parental opinion or just the opinion of others is what true fulfilment is within one’s self. Your dream must be your own dream not the dream of others for you or else you will find it difficult to achieve. Always follow what you love, and what makes you happy. Love your channel, it’s you just being YOU.
Thank you for this fascinating video, Rajiv and thank you, Simon for sharing your knowledge with us. I'm a schoolteacher who also happens to love thrifting paintings and frames from antique and thrift stores and had never realized the behind-the-scene intricacies of framing/ stretching a painting. You continually widen my horizons and for that I'm truly grateful.
It immediately struck me, when you initially talked about painting this portrait, how much it is reminiscent of the incredible ancient Roman portraits. You seem to have captured the magic and spirit of those artists, in your painting. Your skill is amazing. 🌺🌻
Thank you, Rajiv, for yet another beautiful video. I did a small watercolour today. Now it's stupid o'clock in the morning but my brain has gone nice and quiet, I'll be going to bed soon... Thank you.
My favorite cousin! That's how it feels, when I hear your voice. These stretchers are themselves, works of art for the beautiful paintings they support.
Rajiv Surendra, a wonderful video. Many thanks to you and Mr. Liu for an important and informative video. I'd like to ask toward the end of this video, what are the white, rectangular tabs where Mr. Liu would staple on called? I have not seen them at my art supply store, but will order online, name?
Awesome as all your work and workmen, perhaps I have a tip for your friend, my father was a Forester, U.C. Berkley. He told me that the wood of the Sugar Pine tree had a very small coefficient of movement wet to dry. This made it the best wood for windows when they were made of wood. The Sugar Pine grows in the area of Mt. Lassen California. It is a magnificent tree with foot long cones at the tips of it's branches, and the lack of movement seems like it would be ideal for this application.
Rajiv, this was absolutely thrilling to watch! Thanks for inviting us to bear witness to Simon, as another "Master of their craft" of whom you are blessed to know many!
Marvellous ❣️ I enjoy needlepoint and cross-stitch. I learned it is most important to have the back of my work as neat and presentable as the front. When I buy a piece of clothing I inspect the inside and the seams. It says a lot about the life expectancy and durability of the article.
I have stretched and primed Belgian Linen thousands of times and believe that pre primed canvas always feels cheap, I would love to see you make a video on how to prime linen properly so people can appreciate how much work goes into it. I first stretch the linen loosely then Gesso 1 layer, when it dries I lightly sand it followed by another layer of Gesso and lightly sand that also. As I work with Indigenous artist in Australia I provide the artist with all the art materials from linen to Matisse and Atelier acrylic paints. The artists paint on different colour background so after the 2nd layer of gesso when dry I apply the background colour to the surface. Once that is dry I take the linen off the canvas the artists paint on the surface and then when we need to showcase that particular painting we re stretch it. We work with standard size frames from 30 x 30cm, up to 300 x 200cm so we have lots of ready made frames and reuse the priming frames over and over again. Also all Australian Indigenous art is painted whilst sitting on the ground as the paintings depict many things from an aerial view, often in large paintings the artist need to sit on the canvas while painting. There are over 300 different language groups and over 100 prolific painting communities each language group paints different themes in different colour uses so it is easy to identify where the art comes from. Also artist paint the same thing over and over again they only paint what their responsibility or knowledge is to them specifically so with the same pattern and use of iconography together with the style of the area the artist don't need to sign their work the work is the signature. The Artist from the desert use acrylic paint and are identified with dot paintings and iconography and in recent years some areas don't paint in the dot style but in abstract styles or naive art, the artist from Arnhemland the top end of Australia in the Northern Territory paint using natural ochres on bark with crosshatching and depiction of animals unlike the desert where animals are not painted but are depicted by their footprint instead. And in the Kimberly one area uses natural ochres on linen. All Indigenous art is based on maps of areas, mythology, lore, body paint for ceremony, and a persons responsibility to a place or thing.
Thanks Rajiv. I would love to tag along and have fun with you for a whole day--it would be so magical to see all those living artisans in action-in real time. Thanks for thinking about all the details including the very last part with those canvases that are primed. You should create your own magic--like Sylvester Stallone wrote his own script and so did Barbra Streisand--if you want to act in films. But what you are doing is excellent. You are like this truly special person. Priceless like all those paintings. 🎈 I could watch you all day. Best.
Thank you. I am uneducated and want to learn...and you helped me advance my knowledge and appreciation of the complexity of the process of "showing" art. So wonderful! Again, thank you!
I love all your videos. Thanks for making my day. I love books! I just renovated my 4th floor in my Victorian & made it a secret library. I’m still working on it & am searching for the perfect book cases. The 4th floor is open to the below 3 floors with a staircase open between all the floors with a chandelier hanging from the top ceiling. Can’t wait to get the right shelves to organize all my books. Thanks for the inspiration I have to find those three books to add to my collection. I will make a tiny sign that says they are your recommendations! I would live that in your handwriting though! Just saying! Hahaha Thanks for all that you do to make these timeless videos. You’re the best. Mariaknits27 💃🏻💕📚 📚
I love your videos! I'm having sucha good time watching them. Would love to see more on oil painting and stretching and making our own canvases on a budget ❤
Such an amazing video. I’ve learned SO much! I was wondering what the tabs are made of? I’m guessing acid free paper of some kind, or specialist conservation tabs? 😊
Rajiv, you're amazing! You've inspired me to improve my handwriting. You should consider starting a family and passing on this knowledge to the next generation.
Thank you Rajiv ! That was fascinating. Now I have to go and turn paintings over. Oh Yes. And Mr. Liu is such a charming man. He was so gracious to do this video. You always put on interesting people. I'm impressed !
Wow, how amazing to see how the stretching works. What a professional Simon is. Only have 1 question. How do you attach the frame to the painting? Did you glue it down?
As an artist and running out of money for schooling, I've self taught and struggled the hard way. If I'd had video's like this it wouldn't have been so hard. So much extensive knowledge goes into each area because medium, matting, framing, etc, all are art in its self. 😊😊
This was interesting to see, thank you! How do you keep the canvas in the frame? Do you just use that brown paper tape? Or do you put little pins into the edge of the frame too? Interested to see the final stages of getting it ready to hang on a wall.
Rajiv, can you tell us how you finished the painting? How did you secure it in the frame, did you add D rings and wire? I’d love to see the finished piece at the back. Such a work of art!
How Amazing! I can tell that he truely loves what he does and it definitely showed in his finished work. Beautiful! And your painting is beautiful too.
I have learned to do this all wrong! Mr Liu may not be a mechanical engineer, but he is surely a painting engineer! Thank you, sirs, for this demonstartion.
I would put Volara tape on the rabbet edge to protect the art inside the frame, then use small s-shaped off-set brackets to hold the painting in place. More often than not, I also add a backing to protect the back of the painting from back impact, archival Fome-cor or Coreflute, and then an acid free backing paper. 👍
Fascinating. It reminded me of the upholstery video you did. (It was hard to see how the corners were done. Maybe demonstrate that again, one day, in a Q and A video please?
I have a maajor question: When he talks about the gesso passing through? Does that mean my painting will fall apart later? should I just throw it away at this point?
Thanks Rajiv for bringing such stories and people to the fore, the unsung heroes. You are amazing at what you do and a modern marvel who appreciates life, it’s beauty, creativity and all things past.
This is very helpful. As I recently completed my first canvas painting. Searching for a frame and wondered if maybe leaving it stretched and unframed might add character. Seeing this realize both are important. And it’ll need restretch over time. ❤ Thank you
I love how you find Artisans and educate us about the skill sets to watch for, I do Encaustic but the stretchers and frame are wood and my SO learned how to build them! come to TO?! I have several oil paintings way old, but not valuable! Thank you Simon Lu, my aunts were on a trip through eng, ireland, Scotland and wales and they bought home Ancestor's after all the familial smoking I took it to a restoration shop, He published iy in the G & M with an unauthorized renovation, I felt terrible buy it worked out he cleaned them for free. I like the contrast between the rustic painting id elevating and appreciated!
This was so interesting, thank you for the behind-the-scenes/painting! I have a painting that my uncle did that needs stretching, and now I’ll know what I should expect from an artisan. Have a great day!
Yes, I learned most of this in my art program except details like the white strip however we did turn the staple. Love that space (though I have never visited) Thank you for this vlog
OMG! I just realized.... You are the modern day Mr. Rogers!! I meant that as a compliment. Like when he (Mr. Rogers)went around to places to show us what they do. Whoa
Someone says this every episode.
As a fine art framer, I’m so thrilled to see this video - ethical and informative. I would never cut a painting either. Simon is correct, you always need the artist’s permission. This is wonderful! 💝
Thank you for another video putting the spotlight on craftsmanship! So much artistry has been lost over the years with our “instant” society. Your work educating people, as well as sharing your own artistry with us all is such important work. Invaluable actually. Thank you for your mission to share and provide beauty to the world.💙
Big thank you to Simon for taking the time to make this video with Rajiv. Behind the scenes videos are my favorite to watch.
This is a very special video indeed. I never knew what went into framing a painting before so thank you for such an interesting insight today. And I loved the expertise and love that Simon put into the process.
I hope you never stop making content
Simon is a master artisan. I thoroughly enjoyed watching and learning about this process.
Wow, I didn't know about these things. I always wondered how they preserve those famous paintings like the one in Louvre as so many tourists visit.
That was generous of Simon to share his knowledge with us.
Thank you Rajiv for taking us yet on another wonderful journey of creativity.
Doing what you truly love regardless of parental opinion or just the opinion of others is what true fulfilment is within one’s self. Your dream must be your own dream not the dream of others for you or else you will find it difficult to achieve. Always follow what you love, and what makes you happy. Love your channel, it’s you just being YOU.
I love field trip days 🤍
I love these videos where we meet different artisans. Fascinating!
OMG!!! This is so useful and interesting! I just started collecting some vintage art and was wondering about this!!!!!❤
I will be using the angled staples from now on! Thank you!
Thank you for this fascinating video, Rajiv and thank you, Simon for sharing your knowledge with us. I'm a schoolteacher who also happens to love thrifting paintings and frames from antique and thrift stores and had never realized the behind-the-scene intricacies of framing/ stretching a painting. You continually widen my horizons and for that I'm truly grateful.
Thank you ;-)
It immediately struck me, when you initially talked about painting this portrait, how much it is reminiscent of the incredible ancient Roman portraits. You seem to have captured the magic and spirit of those artists, in your painting. Your skill is amazing. 🌺🌻
Thank you
Simon Liu is a master craftsman.
You are absolutely right it is a true work of art Thank YOU 🙏💜🕯️
I swear I can actually SEE your hair growing from the start of this video to the end. Thank you for another charming utterly fascinating video.
It just got more wild as the humidity increased ;-)
I so appreciate learning from all the experts Rajiv has filled his life with. Goals!
Thank you, Rajiv, for yet another beautiful video. I did a small watercolour today. Now it's stupid o'clock in the morning but my brain has gone nice and quiet, I'll be going to bed soon... Thank you.
What a fabulous vlog. Love when you do these tours. This was so interesting to see all the different steps. Thank you so much for sharing.
My favorite cousin! That's how it feels, when I hear your voice. These stretchers are themselves, works of art for the beautiful paintings they support.
Rajiv Surendra, a wonderful video. Many thanks to you and Mr. Liu for an important and informative video. I'd like to ask toward the end of this video, what are the white, rectangular tabs where Mr. Liu would staple on called? I have not seen them at my art supply store, but will order online, name?
Awesome as all your work and workmen, perhaps I have a tip for your friend, my father was a Forester, U.C. Berkley. He told me that the wood of the Sugar Pine tree had a very small coefficient of movement wet to dry. This made it the best wood for windows when they were made of wood. The Sugar Pine grows in the area of Mt. Lassen California. It is a magnificent tree with foot long cones at the tips of it's branches, and the lack of movement seems like it would be ideal for this application.
Rajiv, this was absolutely thrilling to watch! Thanks for inviting us to bear witness to Simon, as another "Master of their craft" of whom you are blessed to know many!
Marvellous ❣️ I enjoy needlepoint and cross-stitch. I learned it is most important to have the back of my work as neat and presentable as the front. When I buy a piece of clothing I inspect the inside and the seams. It says a lot about the life expectancy and durability of the article.
Learned so many things from this episode. Also learned i've been doing some things wrong 😅 Mind blown! This is so cool!
That was very educational 👏👏👏🕊️💚☘️🇮🇪
Wow! Fantastic! Thank you for sharing! It is the way I was taught.
Incredibly useful and informative! Thanks Simon and Rajiv!
I have stretched and primed Belgian Linen thousands of times and believe that pre primed canvas always feels cheap, I would love to see you make a video on how to prime linen properly so people can appreciate how much work goes into it. I first stretch the linen loosely then Gesso 1 layer, when it dries I lightly sand it followed by another layer of Gesso and lightly sand that also. As I work with Indigenous artist in Australia I provide the artist with all the art materials from linen to Matisse and Atelier acrylic paints. The artists paint on different colour background so after the 2nd layer of gesso when dry I apply the background colour to the surface. Once that is dry I take the linen off the canvas the artists paint on the surface and then when we need to showcase that particular painting we re stretch it. We work with standard size frames from 30 x 30cm, up to 300 x 200cm so we have lots of ready made frames and reuse the priming frames over and over again. Also all Australian Indigenous art is painted whilst sitting on the ground as the paintings depict many things from an aerial view, often in large paintings the artist need to sit on the canvas while painting. There are over 300 different language groups and over 100 prolific painting communities each language group paints different themes in different colour uses so it is easy to identify where the art comes from. Also artist paint the same thing over and over again they only paint what their responsibility or knowledge is to them specifically so with the same pattern and use of iconography together with the style of the area the artist don't need to sign their work the work is the signature. The Artist from the desert use acrylic paint and are identified with dot paintings and iconography and in recent years some areas don't paint in the dot style but in abstract styles or naive art, the artist from Arnhemland the top end of Australia in the Northern Territory paint using natural ochres on bark with crosshatching and depiction of animals unlike the desert where animals are not painted but are depicted by their footprint instead. And in the Kimberly one area uses natural ochres on linen. All Indigenous art is based on maps of areas, mythology, lore, body paint for ceremony, and a persons responsibility to a place or thing.
Love that summer outfit, Rajiv. 🙂 And the painting is fabulous.
Thank you!
One of the best videos!
Thank you
Really fascinating. Fun to learn and understand something new.
A master at his craft but yet so humble. Thank you for taking the time to show & explain how’s it’s done.
Wow another informative video. Thank you Rajiv and Simon for sharing your wisdom and talents. ❤️🙏❤️
Thanks Rajiv. I would love to tag along and have fun with you for a whole day--it would be so magical to see all those living artisans in action-in real time. Thanks for thinking about all the details including the very last part with those canvases that are primed. You should create your own magic--like Sylvester Stallone wrote his own script and so did Barbra Streisand--if you want to act in films. But what you are doing is excellent. You are like this truly special person. Priceless like all those paintings. 🎈 I could watch you all day. Best.
I believe you learn something new every day, and I learned a lot today watching your video.
NO! THANK YOU and Simon...Excellence! 🎨🎨🎨
This is so interesting to learn the proper way to stretch a canvas. Wow!
Thank you for this amazing content, Rajiv!
I truly appreciate watching❤
I learned so much from this post. Please thank Simon for sharing his procss and thank you for documenting it Rajiv! ❤
Just wonderful information. And I like his ethical methods!!
Fascinating, thank you both.
Thank you for the video!
This is a video I really appreciate! Thank you! 😊
Soo humble! Knowledgeable and very very unassuming!
Hi there! Super topic, yet again.
This is a fantastic video! Thank you so much! ❤️
Thank you. I am uneducated and want to learn...and you helped me advance my knowledge and appreciation of the complexity of the process of "showing" art. So wonderful! Again, thank you!
How interesting! You share your love and experiences with your viewers. Is there anything you can't do? Amazing! Thank you!❤
What is white material understanding each staple ? Love your videos Rajiv.
underneath
I love all your videos. Thanks for making my day. I love books! I just renovated my 4th floor in my Victorian & made it a secret library. I’m still working on it & am searching for the perfect book cases. The 4th floor is open to the below 3 floors with a staircase open between all the floors with a chandelier hanging from the top ceiling. Can’t wait to get the right shelves to organize all my books. Thanks for the inspiration I have to find those three books to add to my collection. I will make a tiny sign that says they are your recommendations! I would live that in your handwriting though! Just saying! Hahaha Thanks for all that you do to make these timeless videos. You’re the best. Mariaknits27 💃🏻💕📚 📚
I love your videos! I'm having sucha good time watching them. Would love to see more on oil painting and stretching and making our own canvases on a budget ❤
Last words from Rajiv to Mr. Liu were touching...Thank you both of you for such incredible work!
YOU WENT TO SIMON LIU! I'm ordering a custom panel from them right now.
Such an amazing video. I’ve learned SO much! I was wondering what the tabs are made of? I’m guessing acid free paper of some kind, or specialist conservation tabs? 😊
Rajiv, you're amazing! You've inspired me to improve my handwriting. You should consider starting a family and passing on this knowledge to the next generation.
As someone who has majored in painting, I appreciate your content on details!! There is a method to the madness. 🥂
Thank you Rajiv ! That was fascinating. Now I have to go and turn paintings over. Oh Yes.
And Mr. Liu is such a charming man. He was so gracious to do this video. You always put on interesting people. I'm impressed !
Wow, how amazing to see how the stretching works. What a professional Simon is. Only have 1 question. How do you attach the frame to the painting? Did you glue it down?
As an artist and running out of money for schooling, I've self taught and struggled the hard way. If I'd had video's like this it wouldn't have been so hard. So much extensive knowledge goes into each area because medium, matting, framing, etc, all are art in its self. 😊😊
This was interesting to see, thank you! How do you keep the canvas in the frame? Do you just use that brown paper tape? Or do you put little pins into the edge of the frame too? Interested to see the final stages of getting it ready to hang on a wall.
Fascinating content as usual!
Rajiv, can you tell us how you finished the painting? How did you secure it in the frame, did you add D rings and wire? I’d love to see the finished piece at the back. Such a work of art!
Excellent!👏
Amazing! Thank you both ❤
Awesome video. So educational. Thank you for making us wiser and enjoy a greater knowledge of art.
How Amazing! I can tell that he truely loves what he does and it definitely showed in his finished work. Beautiful! And your painting is beautiful too.
Once again, just fascinating!
Loved this. Very informative & going to be so useful. Thank you
I have learned to do this all wrong! Mr Liu may not be a mechanical engineer, but he is surely a painting engineer! Thank you, sirs, for this demonstartion.
Fabulous demonstration! Thank you!
Wow, Simon is a true master. This was just beautiful. Seeing you in the canvas treasure trove at the end was fun! Thank you for sharing. 🙏
Excellent as always. How do you keep the painting in the frame? I only ever see the brown paper at the back...
I would put Volara tape on the rabbet edge to protect the art inside the frame, then use small s-shaped off-set brackets to hold the painting in place. More often than not, I also add a backing to protect the back of the painting from back impact, archival Fome-cor or Coreflute, and then an acid free backing paper. 👍
Did anyone catch what the material the white pieces are that Mr Liu staples through? Conservation grade card, maybe?
Fascinating. It reminded me of the upholstery video you did. (It was hard to see how the corners were done. Maybe demonstrate that again, one day, in a Q and A video please?
I have a maajor question: When he talks about the gesso passing through? Does that mean my painting will fall apart later? should I just throw it away at this point?
Rajiv, can you make a video of how traditional modern artists prepared the raw canvas for oil painting?
I absolutely loved this! What a wealth of information.
liked seeing this but man with staples... thats a big no for many artist..
The keys don't go in until after the canvas is stretched (with tacks) not staples.
Fascinating to watch a master at work!
Question: If you use the keys to stretch out the canvas at a later time, then won't it become too big to fit in the frame?
Awesome video, thanks Rajiv!!
Thanks for watching.
Thanks Rajiv for bringing such stories and people to the fore, the unsung heroes. You are amazing at what you do and a modern marvel who appreciates life, it’s beauty, creativity and all things past.
Thank you!
Yay! Take us to the rooftop bees next. Please
That was truly fascinating. What a craftsman ❤
I have that same Beachcomber t-shirt😊
Awesome info. I'm interested in how you will finish mounting the painting into its frame, Rajiv.
I want a video on how to fold those corners now
This is SO interesting & beautiful! Simon in a Beachcomber TShirt. Hello from Cape Cod :)
This is very helpful. As I recently completed my first canvas painting. Searching for a frame and wondered if maybe leaving it stretched and unframed might add character. Seeing this realize both are important. And it’ll need restretch over time. ❤ Thank you
I love how you find Artisans and educate us about the skill sets to watch for, I do Encaustic but the stretchers and frame are wood and my SO learned how to build them! come to TO?! I have several oil paintings way old, but not valuable! Thank you Simon Lu, my aunts were on a trip through eng, ireland, Scotland and wales and they bought home Ancestor's after all the familial smoking I took it to a restoration shop, He published iy in the G & M with an unauthorized renovation, I felt terrible buy it worked out he cleaned them for free. I like the contrast between the rustic painting id elevating and appreciated!
This was so interesting, thank you for the behind-the-scenes/painting! I have a painting that my uncle did that needs stretching, and now I’ll know what I should expect from an artisan. Have a great day!
Yes, I learned most of this in my art program except details like the white strip however we did turn the staple. Love that space (though I have never visited) Thank you for this vlog
Don't be frayed!
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as a nyc artist i love this thank you! i'd love to stop by simon's shop sometime~