Glass on chalk

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I received a call yesterday from a customer who had had her children's portraits done in pastel chalk. The artist told her that to frame these, the glass should be sprayed with something (customer was not sure what, possibly fixative) and placed directly on the artwork. Under no circumstances should the pieces be matted.

We've been down the road of artists-who-frame and I don't want to go there again but am I missing something? Has anyone heard of chalk drawings being framed this way? What is it that gets sprayed on the glass?

I told the customer that the artist's instructions were the opposite of everything I knew about framing chalk drawings but that I would check with youse guys. I suggested that she call the artist for further information but she didn't want to because the artist was being "pushy" about framing the pieces herself.

Any help you can give me greatly appreciated.

Kit

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Kit,
I share our building with an artist and the way that I frame her chalk portraits is by making a narrow mat under the top mat to keep the glass off the artwork and give any small chalk "droppings" a place to fall behind the top mat.

I have another artist that does chalk portraits that sprays his pieces with a fixative before sending his customers to me for framing. I still frame those the same way.

I've never heard of spraying the glass or the person doing the framing spraying anything on the art.

Hope we're talking about the same type of chalk portraits here. It'll be interesting to see what other framers do for chalk art.
Janet



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Originally posted by Kit aka emrr:
"...We've been down the road of artists-who-frame and I don't want to go there again but am I missing something? Has anyone heard of chalk drawings being framed this way? What is it that gets sprayed on the glass?...

Is this the artist who has found the perfect way to mount fugitive media drawings??? She probably wonders why everyone isn't doing it.

I'll speculate that the spray could be acrylic or polyurethane varnish; a fixative might penetrate into the medium more, and not stick so well to the glass.

Maybe her theory is that if the chalk transfers to the glass by static charge anyway, let's *really* stick it with a strong adhesive. Basically, she's applying the chalk to paper or board, and then transferring the image to glass.

Maybe it would work, but the glass-transfer process would certainly change the colors and destroy the texture of fugitive media. After all, it wouldn't be fugitive media anymore. What happens if the art paper/board warps after framing? And when the glass breaks, the art is destroyed.

I don't think you're missing anything here, Kit. It's probably just another artistic wacko.
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If I ate a Krispy Kreme for every time a client came in with instructions from a wacko artist or photographer that knew more about framing than my staff, I would weigh 300 lbs.
 
Thanks for the input. Customer brought the piece in this afternoon. We're framing it wih mat and spacer, UV glass. I feel much better now. Kit

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