How Do You Frame A Charcoal Drawing

Putting charcoal backside drinking glass

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May xi, 2000 at v:04 am #982805

Has anyone had any success framing a charcoal drawing?

I've never tried it, myself. I causeless you'd just become almost it the same as with a watercolour; mat and glass (after a few healthy shpritzes of fixative.)

But I'1000 sure I've read somewhere that some force or other – static electricity, I gauge – tin can cause the charcoal to lift off the paper and fasten itself to the back of the glass.

Is there a correct way to frame a charcoal drawing?

May 11, 2000 at 5:47 am #997408

I think every bit long as you spray it with fixative, it shouldn't be a trouble. All the charcoal drawings at museums are backside drinking glass… (I utilise hairspray every bit a fixative!)

cindy

May eleven, 2000 at 9:twenty am #997410

Howdy,
I would recommend double matting or if single matted use a spacer betwixt matte and frame. The further away you go the drawing from the glass the better. That will help stop the static electricity in the drinking glass from pulling the charcoal off the newspaper.
Use minimal fixative….frame as you would pastels.
Promise this helps…

Stephanie

May eleven, 2000 at 5:12 pm #997405

I have had a charcoal framed earlier and it was fine. The framer has done a lot of them earlier and she did put a double mat between the pic and the drinking glass. I had no static probs and I used fixative which is important.

May 12, 2000 at three:xxx am #997406

Thanks for the replies, all. I'm going to give it a endeavor. But Cindy, I don't accept any hairspray – what about gel?

I plant the book where I'd read nigh the static problem, and I had it kind of mixed up. It is in 'Messages from the Real World' by Ted Godwin. He relates a story about some pastels in the Royal Ontario Museum that were framed behind plexiglas. When the cleaning crews rubbed the 'glass', a static charge built up and pulled the loose pastel off the paper. At that place's something about the acrylate surface that generates electricity, it seems.

Bold the same would happen with charcoal, I judge the moral of the story is to always use glass and non plastic when framing something with a 'loose' surface.

May 12, 2000 at 9:57 am #997411

Even with glass…when dusting the surface..you tin can put a static accuse onto the glass. I accept read that never employ a dry cloth when dusting pastel (and I am bold charcoal) paintings. Always us a damp cloth and try not to "scrub" the glass…just wipe plenty to clean.

Stephanie

May 12, 2000 at 3:04 pm #997407

Cindy… Are you serious nigh the hairspray? I HATE Krylon Workable Matte Fixative – it's the simply matter I've ever used. I'thousand willing to endeavour it your way – what make?

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. ~ Lawrence Durrell

May 13, 2000 at ix:39 am #997409

I'm serious and it works but I don't know how "archival" it is… I use the strongest (and cheapest ~ $1) spray called aqua net but just on rough sketches etc not on anything I desire to keep or frame…

cindy
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