Suspended Picture Frame

Step 3 Mark it all up! Nail it all down! Drill away!

Using a pencil, mark 5 points on the frame to show the nail points.

NOTE: I chose to go with 1 nail in each corner. Hindsight being 20/20, this wasn't such a good idea. I should have gone with 2 nails in each corner, not just for aesthetics, but also because it makes it easier to sink the nail into the wood without hitting the screws that hold the corners together.

The frame is a 50 cm x 50 cm frame. I placed marks at a halfway point of the frame (25 cm), half of the distance to the sides (12.5 & 37.5 cm) and eyeballed the corners so they missed the frame screws.

Do not put the nails all the way down. leave about 1/8" or so to give you room to tie the fishing line.

Do the same to the artwork.

Comments

[ammo1313]

something you could try is putting screws in the back of the canvas frame so you do not have to drill through the painting. and drill through the frame. If you keep the wire/string tight enough you will still get the picture to float.

[laernmoer]

This isn't a canvas frame. It's a canvas/gesso covered cardboard. Screws would pull out of it. The appearance is like canvas, which is why I put holes in it, so it looks like canvas. If it's a real canvas, I definitely would have done it that way, thanks for the suggestion.

[ammo1313]

That is what I get for not reading, lol.