Category Archives: Paintings

Stretcher Keys – How to use them

Stretcher keys are the thin, triangular wooden wedges that are hammered into the slots located at the inner corners of the stretchers, in order to tighten the canvas by expanding the own stretcher. How do the stretcher keys work? Do we place the keys properly? Find the answers here.
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Mastering Inpainting

The ethics of the inpainting process, mediums and pigments, additives and modifiers, commercial brands and handmade paintings, tools and instruments, etc.
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Artists and Conservators

Last week we have been honored with the visit of Amanda Seelye Salzman, an American artist, born in Jordan, who’s art is a derivative of a established relationship between America and the Arab world. She has hold solo exhibitions in important cities as London, Greenwich, New York and Kuwait, group exhibitions in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Tunisia, New York and London, ...
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