A painting panels capable of maintaining planarity of a canvas without being subject to an aging, which may happen often in wooden frames is provided. A painting panel in which a covering member including a plurality of layers made of neutral paper is stretched and secured over an outer surface of a grid framework formed by assembling squared bars made of at least one selected from cedar, Japanese cypress, Maki, paulownia, ash, beech, zelkova, oak, cherry, and teak into a grid shape.

A metal poster is formed with an integral frame which is relief printed on the obverse face of a sheet metal plate with layers of UV curable inks. Image indicia imprinted on the plate is surrounded by the relief printed frame. The ink layers extend into selvage areas of the plate. The selvage areas are folded over to the rear face of the sheet metal plate to provide the frame with relief printed rounded peripheral edges.

A method for preparing a likeness of a deceased human or animal, incorporating said human or animal's cremains in the likeness, prepared on a flat surface, is disclosed.

A method for preparing a likeness of a deceased human or animal, incorporating said human or animal's cremains in the likeness, prepared on a flat surface, is disclosed.

A substrate for use with alcohol inks has a vinyl coating on one side of a stiff board, and optionally on both sides. The vinyl surface is ideal for painting with alcohol inks to achieve effects preferred by many artists.

A substrate for use with alcohol inks has a vinyl coating on one side of a stiff board, and optionally on both sides. The vinyl surface is ideal for painting with alcohol inks to achieve effects preferred by many artists.

The present disclosure is directed to articles configured as panels of artwork, methods of manufacturing the same, and methods of permanently transferring a coloring media to such articles. More particularly, the exemplary articles and methods for forming the same are configured to accept many types of coloring media on a surface thereof through use of a color-receptive layer.

The present invention is related to a trackable authentication system of canvas for tracking and authenticating artwork, the canvas comprising: a canvas made by thread; and a plurality of wireless communication chips, that is NFC (Near Field Communication) or RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip, each chip being disposed at an appropriate position wherein a plurality of threads are knitted into canvas material for the canvas, and wherein the NFC or RFID chips are for transferring verifiable codes and the codes are provided with tracking and authentification information.

The present invention is related to a trackable authentication system of canvas for tracking and authenticating artwork, the canvas comprising: a canvas made by thread; and a plurality of wireless communication chips, that is NFC (Near Field Communication) or RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chip, each chip being disposed at an appropriate position wherein a plurality of threads are knitted into canvas material for the canvas, and wherein the NFC or RFID chips are for transferring verifiable codes and the codes are provided with tracking and authentification information.

Disclosed is a handheld canvas stretching tool used to stretch canvas across a stretcher frame. The tool can include upper and lower jaw plates with slip resistant surfaces configured to firmly grasp a portion of the canvas to be stretched. The tool includes wide locking pliers technology, and a second class lever action. These features give the user the mechanical advantage needed to apply a taut stretch to the canvas, while permitting one hand, and sometimes both hands, of the user to be free to apply staples that secure the canvas to the stretcher frame.