Hello,
For the first time I will try to brace my mdf panels. I read Rigid suports reference but still would like to gain further clarification.
When to glue wooden braces to reverse side of panel, after size but before gesso ground or after gesso ground but before primuersel?
Above I use term “primuersel” meaning thin oil ground applied on top of animal glue gesso as was desribed in book Rembrandt:Art in the making. I know about hygroscopic nature of animal glue.
Kind regards,
Damir Pusic.
i think best to brace before you priming. what kind of wood panel you use? i tried tempered hardboard and will bow after gesso priming unless braced first.
It is fiberboard (MDF). Planar deformation occur, but once I prime reverse side of panel then it becomes straight again.
I went to frame shop and being told uncradled panel can be framed easily. Also I remember one painter was placing large uncradled gesso panels in strong frames that would hold it straight – he claims.
Could frame be substitution for cradling in archival meaning?
Damir P.
may depend how you frame it, but i donot prefer that personally as adding cradle is not any big deal, if you can find source of straight and good quality wood bars. and i would brace it then apply varnish on back side for sealing, i willl not gesso the backside first before cradle, of course it is easier to do that way, but the glue is not to the panel surface but to the gesso layer, which may flake off. but you can do a test and see how you like it to be done, more a personally style i think.
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