Category: Arts

Probably in a month’s time, you expect to have finalized your oil painting. At this point, the only thing you will be thinking about is preparing the painting canvas. There are a variety of alternatives when it comes to completing this task. You can apply DIY techniques, hand it over to a friend who is good at this job, or enlist the services of the canvas-preparation enterprise. In this article, the focus is on how you can prepare a painting canvas with the help of a compound miter saw. Tools Preparing a painting canvas is not an unmanageable task. Essentially, once you procure the framing implements for your painting canvas, you can do it yourself. For this purpose you will need;

• Molding of your choice,
• A compound Miter saw
• A clamping tool
• Glue
• V-nails,
• Brackets
• Hanging Wire
• Channel Lock Pliers
• T50 Stapling gun

Miter Saw This tool is crucial to ensuring that the cut edges of the moldings fit together accordingly in a right angle. With the measurement of a miter saw, you can size up the moldings, draw a sharp pencil line at an angle of 45 degrees, and seamlessly saw off the marked part. However, it is often problematic when it comes to maintaining a straight line. For this reason, certain miter saws come with a measuring tool that makes it easy to saw off a second section with a precise length as the original one

Procedure

1. Saw off the moldings into two sections in line with your preferred height and breadth. It is important to have adequate space for the canvas stretch to fit snugly into the frame. With the measurement of the miter saw, ensure that the angles are cut precisely and asses the lengths of each section pair are unerringly equal.
2. Smear glue to the section edges, assemble and clamp firmly in positions. At this stage, it is essential to ascertain that all the corners are square.
3. Insert at least one V-nail into the back of each joint. This task can be done either through gentle taps using a mallet or the utilization of a unique tool for this purpose.
4. Release the clamping device when you are sure that the glue is dry.
5. Screw in brackets and fasten the wire to the back of the frame.
6. After completing the frame, you should determine the amount of canvas you need. It is important to give an allowance of 3-4 inches on all sides such that you can wrap it around the frame.
7. This step requires you to use the T50 staple gun. Start with the longest sides first and staple from the center out towards the edges. Start from the middle and staple after a maximum of 2 inches until you get to a distance of 2 inches from the and Leave this section alone to give you a chance to stretch the canvas in case of creasing.
8. Using channel lock pliers, grab the end of the canvas and stretch around the back section of the frame. Again follow the procedure outlined in the previous step. Do not focus on whether your canvas is drum tight. Instead, concentrate on ensuring it is free of wrinkles.
9. The final step involves the corners. The spare inches you left come in handy here. Pinch the canvas and tuck one side into another one. This should be followed by taking the opposite side and squaring it along the specific corner before stapling into place. Your painting canvas is ready for use

Showerhead painting has become a new trend in the market; nowadays everybody wants their showerheads to be painted innovatively and uniquely. While some people wish to the shower heads to be painted by professional, most of the people want to pain their shower heads by their own, because this gives a personal touch to the shower head.

Today people want to do something creative and different, this gives birth to many innovations. while you have options of either doing it by yourself or hiring a professional for the job, the difference is of the specialization and will to do something extra and that too with the risk of getting the areas nearby covered in the paint.

DO IT YOURSELF

Before starting anything, you should explore your bathroom fixture, the options for the color and the stability of the paint. The reliability and stability of the product. You have to follow some steps to successfully paint the shower heads. You have to research by yourself on how to create an artistic unclogging shower head paintings

• Step 1. tape off the fixtures of the taps.
• Step 2. give the surface of the taps and shower head a thorough sanding.
• Step 3. cover all the surrounding area with plastic wrap or something which doesn’t get the color.
• Step 4. Spray the surface with a primer twice
• Step 5. wait for the surface to dry off.
• Step 6. give two coats of color and let it dry
• Step 7. Before peeling the tapes, you need to cut the edges with a sharp blade
• Step 8. enjoy the feel of new paint and look of your bathroom.

While painting your shower heads you will have to follow the step mentioned, and there can be differences because of the different paint types. You have to get the full information on how to create an artistic shower head paintings before starting the process to avoid any chaos.

BENEFITS

While painting your shower heads is an attractive idea you have to be careful in the process because is the paint spreads onto the wrong surface or is not done correctly, you will have a significant work of redoing the whole bathroom again.

• FRESHNESS: while painting the showerheads is a strenuous task, you get the new bathroom for yourself, and it becomes attractive.
• DIFFERENT IN LOOKS: you have the same shower head for years, painting it gives a new view, and this changes the entire look of the bathroom.
• ADDS CHARACTER: anything you customize in your home represents you. Painting your shower head does the same. When you enter a person’s personal space and see something customized, it gives an insight into their personal lives, about what a kind of person you are.

CONCLUSION

While it seems to be pretty easy to create a new artistic shower head by painting it by yourself, but there has to be a lot of carefulness and consistency. The one thing people underestimate in the painting process is cooling time, and you have to wait for the pain to dry, For understanding how to create an artistic shower head painting, first, you have to be thorough with the basic rules of painting, also how to avoid the spreading of the paint in the unwanted areas. because a small mistake from you can convert into a full bathroom remodeling.