I followed your video and directions and was able to successfully mount my painting! Thank you for this tutorial.

@blueheronarts Thank you for your response. I don't have a space heater. The temperature is pretty even at home. However, I see your point now. It makes a lot of sense to put thicker paste for the edges. One of my edges is always drying faster than the rest. While the rest of the area is still stretching, the dry part already loosens up. That's why uneven pulling parts of the paper makes wrinkles. THNAK YOU THANK YOU you are great!

Thank you for your support! Yes, you may use rice paper, mulberry tree fiber paper, or any other sumi painting paper as backing paper.

@dipchips Hi, good question. Painted (shiny) surface or even glass is ok. Yes, traditionally they just leave the margin papes on the wall so it become a kind of paper covered wall. I always remove leftover margins instead of leaving them on the door. Make sure you use thicker paste to fix the margins and don't let the paste get into the painting area. Otherwise it may stick to the board.

Thank you for sharing your technique for mounting. I bought a Chinese painting that was unmounted and am trying to get up the courage to do the pasting on another piece of rice paper. My original is very thin rice paper and very delicate. Dorothy P.S. Sorry that the comment before mine from someone named Isadora was so crude and unkind. Some people are just nasty by nature. I hope you can remain kind and open to sharing. I like your work!

@inlife9 I think it really depends on the consistency. For backing Chinese painting on rice paper we use a very thin consistency similar to natural milk. Printing paper may require thicker paste.

Excellent video! I had no idea all that work went into mounting.

dipchips wrote: I've discovered the reason of my problem. In the room where i hung the paintings the air is too dry. So i dries to fast. I tried to use a window (colder area) and guess what. It sticked and the paper is completely stretched and dried. I am so happy ! Also the mineral color solution has been found. Just wash the painting with Alum water after the paints are dry, let the paper dry again for 1 day, then its ready to glue. Thx for your tips !

Great video! Do you use the same paper to paint the picture and to back it/mount it? Also could I use bamboo plywood to mount the painting and display the painting that way? Maybe frame the edges with darker bamboo to get some contrast?

Yes, you can use wet mounting on paintings which had a color wash on the back. If you have a thick color built-up it might smear. That is why since I adopted silicone dry-mounting method I have not used this wet mounting method.

@jzc11024 The backing paper? I think it is mulberry paper #1 (the one with finer fiber). It could be a single xuan, but doesn't look like double or triple Xuan.

Use mulberry paper as backing paper may help because it is tougher to habbdle so you can stretch it before fixing the border. I have not done any wet mounting since I adopted dry-mounting with silicone paper, which is much easier, faster and reliable.

@jade70chueh Does your room has heater which makes some part dry too fast? Also You need to use thick paste to hold the edges in place while it gets stretched.

A: The air bubbles will be gone when it gets dry because the wet painting gets shrunk or tighten. Don't need to touch any area inside except the border when you post it onto drying board.Just make it evenly spread on the board. No need to worry about the bubbles between the painting and the board. If you got waves after drying, that means it was not even or too loose when you post it. This more like to happen with large size painting.

Did you print the t-shirt yourself? It looks very nice, good explanation here Henry!

Thank you Henry. Is it possible to use this technique with thicker paper? Something like 300 gr cotton or water colour paper as a back mounting paper?

Q: After only attaching the borders to the bord there seems to remain a air bubble somewhere in the painting which cannot be removed unless i use the (hard) palmtree brush on the frontside of the painting (which might damage or spread certain thickly applied paints even in case it's used very softly to get the air out, this is a bit hard to do). How can i prevent this kind of problem. However it seems that after drying the paper get's tight pretty good, but i still have a bit a wavy paper.

Hi Henri, just a question, the door you are gluing on, should it have a bit rough surface ? Because on a painted (shiny) door the paper get's loose doesn't it !? Traditionlay they have a special screen with paper for attaching the painting is it !?

Would that glue work on a card stock printed image placed to wood?

what kind of xuan or mounting paper did you use in this video? Single, double, or triple xuan?

Great video!

Thank you for your comments. You could but I used a different sheet of paper which is larger than the Japanese rice paper I painted on. I would use mulberry paper. I will never mount my painting onto a board of any kind. Yes, you can use any kind of frame made of bamboo or wood. BTW, I have not gone back to wet mounting since I adopted the dry-mounting technique with silicone release paper. Check my other videos for more info on that.Thanks!

Thank You!

When my painting was about to dry on the door, it started to have ripples here and there. Could you explain why it did so? Thanks

thank you for this demonstration.................there is so much to know about mounting these sumi-e paintings correctly.............it makes me very nervous about so hard to paint a painting in sumi-e that I like, and the fear of damaging it during the mounting process..........I am rather new to sumi-e painting; would you suggest the dry mounting technique instead, with the silicone release paper?.......do you think that is an easier way that is less likely to damage the painting than the wet mounting technique?

@blueheronarts

8 жыл бұрын

+jasmine roxanne raggs Yes, dry mounting is much easier with small paintings.

@jasmineroxanneraggs2378

8 жыл бұрын

Henry Li thank you very much for your response and help!

If the original painting is very thin you may consider dry mounting with iron-on silicone paper. See my other demo of the dry-mounting technique. BTW, I have removed that unkind comment. Thank you for your support!

that's so cool

It would bleed if you used regular water color paints. Chinese painting color is less bleeding during wet mounting but still does sometimes. That is why I would recommend dry mounting with silicone paper if you use regular watercor. See my videos on silicone mounting paper for details.

FYI, I just posted a new wet-mounting video in my YT channel that maybe helpful to you.

Hello, what glue are you using?

@blueheronarts

3 жыл бұрын

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Blue Heron Arts (dot) Com site under mounting materials. Thanks!