Build Canvas Frame

This easy diy tutorial will teach you how to frame a canvas for cheap making a huge piece of 22 art look like it s worth much more.

Build canvas frame.

Find one that is the same length width and depth of your canvas. 16x20 and 18x24 common size are very affordable at most art supply stores but if you want large or custom sizes the price goes way up very quickly. While a regular canvas frame would hug tight against the canvas a float frame has an intentional gap all the way around to make the canvas look like it s floating inside the frame. Once you have collected all the elements you need to make the canvas frame.

How to build a custom sized stretched canvas. If not painters tape sticky putty or a few drops of hot glue on the back can hold the canvas where you want it. You can build this canvas frame in an afternoon. Flip the frame over and attach the canvas from the back by driving longer nails through the canvas stretchers and into the frame.

This instructable is my effort to explain how to build your own custom size canvas for painting. Building the frame just an 1 8 or 3 16 larger than the canvas should give you a tight enough fit to hold the canvas in without extra help. Now you need to get the stretcher bars at your hand. The standard frame sizes are 8 10 11 14 16 20 18 24 20 24 24 30 and 30 40 but some stores will have other sizes like 10 20.

Float frames are different from regular frames meant for canvas because they are made to be just a little bit bigger than the canvas itself. Attach the stretcher bars. These bars come along with a notched side to attach them together. I m sharing a super easy and cheap way to frame a canvas.

Learn how with our simple instructions. Float mount frame i personally think float mount frames look the most professional but maybe that s because it was the most finicky of my frames to make so i was the most proud of this one. Now that you have the canvas s measurements and know what style of frame you want you can shop for a frame. Miter cut each edge.

If you haven t already caught on i like to do things as inexpensively as possible.