Being Your Most Authentic Self
This gallant canvas defiantly challenges the conventional aesthetic of gallery-displayed art, celebrating the rich diversity of human experience and our capacity for empathy, as the artist's vulnerable vision inspires us to embrace our ‘imperfections’ and cultivate deeper compassion.
The Clavos Frame is a contemporary approach to canvas construction that abandons the concealment of the framework, fasteners, and canvas arrangement. Instead, these elements are left visible, illuminating the vulnerability and stress the canvas endures. This design introduces a secondary surface plane, allowing artists to create atmospheric, "cloudy" effects by painting on the back of the raw canvas. This novel method of expressive mark-making enables artists to define volume, mass, and space in innovative ways, inviting deeper exploration and expands viewer engagement.
The wood, the nails, the fabric, and the presence of the artist all at once, showing they are all part of the same idea.
A Mark for the Most Authentic, Grounded Souls
If you are an artist and interested in learning how to work with techniques of this art form and this alternative frame design, please don't hesitate to reach out.
I have invested in securing U.S. patents for this art process and frame construction.
This artwork is not intended for mass production, this is meant as a direct connection of artist and patron.
Each piece is a specially crafted, blessed message meant for personal reflection.
Manufactures interested in obtaining a licensing agreement, please contact me. There are artists who do prefer or have the need for ready built canvases, this design is available for mass production as a ready for use unpainted canvas product, never as a pre-finished or printed decor.
CANVAS FRAMECANVAS FRAME
US 11,827,051 B2
CANVAS FRAMECANVAS FRAME
US D1,005,698 S
Manufacture Ready
Effortlessly Cool New Way To Art
Durable And Archival
- Patented. Over three years of documented product design success.
- Easy method to stretch a canvas, less laborious than the traditional ways. Utilizes all existing manufactured materials.
Durable And Archival
Effortlessly Cool New Way To Art
Durable And Archival
- Water based sealed frames. Applicable to all artist mediums.
- Stretcher bar frame build allows simple canvas tension adjustment.
- Recommend to be manufactured and sold as unprimed raw canvas for the artists choice.
Effortlessly Cool New Way To Art
Effortlessly Cool New Way To Art
Effortlessly Cool New Way To Art
- Enhanced artist to patron connection, sharing deeper artistic presence with this revealing design.
- In a world of colors, where dreams come alive, a canvas awaits, ready to thrive. With a brush in my hand, and a vision so clear, I'll create a masterpiece, a new frontier.
Product developer:
AJ Wrobel direct: 651-276-2055
Please call or email about license
Email: artbyajwrobel@gmail.com
Potential Questions
Please reach us at artbyajwrobel@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Yes. Clavos Frame Art is made to be archival the same as all others but does have one additional layer of conservation.
The frame has a coating of a water-based sealant as a barrier between the natural wood oils and the applied fabric. Traditional canvas construction does not provide this barrier.
Yes and no.
Yes if the artist intends to use mediums that requires canvas protection such as with oil painting.
No if the artist uses water based mediums for the artwork.
No primer is needed when water based mediums are used but can be applied if desired.
Many artists are now enjoying the various pour and stain painting techniques, these require no canvas preparation, only if the artist desires.
When a water based primer is applied, the fabric tension increases as it dries.
No. Clavos Frame paintings are cared for in the exact same manner as any other professionally finished oil, acrylic, mixed medium, etc. artwork.
Just as with any other artwork, uncontrolled temperature and moisture are usually the most damaging.
Properly cared for your art will last for generations.
Maintaining your Clavos Frame artwork in an environment and manner that you would expect a professional gallery to provide is all that is necessary.
Yes. The Clavos Frame canvas tension is simple to increase just the same as any other stretcher-built canvas as they are built on the same platform.
Sometimes after shipping of any canvas product, tension adjustment may be desired or warranted. Traditional canvas keys or modified mechanical type keys can be used and work great when thoughtfully and slowly adjusted.
Artists: please wait to adjust canvas tension until the artwork has been fully completed, as the unprimed raw canvas typically will shrink during the artists process. It is normal for the canvas fibers to tighten when acrylic medium is applied.
Yes. The fabric can be cleaned just as any other in the same or similar finish as the fabric used is the same manufactured fabrics widely in use today.
In art, the artistic process of a painting takes on many different forms.
Ultimately it is the responsibility of the professional artist to convey their methods so that future conservators working on their piece would have the knowledge to properly service their specific style of art.
Yes. The fabric can be removed and reinstalled as needed. Just as with any traditional artist canvas, careful removal of the fasteners will release the fabric from its frame.
The finished artwork can then be remounted to a new frame or other desired support.
The short answer is no, but can be just the same as any other traditional canvas art.
Prototype And Development
- Several large and small canvas works have been on display for more than three years without issue and are available for review.
Characteristic to Clavos Frame is exposure and transparency, an avant-garde means of expression that has created new ways to explore deeper narratives while requiring the viewer to consider more.
Clavos Frame introduces this revolutionary method of canvas construction.
No longer is there concealment of framework, fasteners, and canvas arrangement. Instead, being left evident and open for viewer interaction. Clavos Frame illuminates the vulnerability and stress a canvas must endure for the painting, an allegory for so much of our society today.
Clavos Frame also introduces a secondary surface plane to traditional two-dimensional art. New techniques of painting onto the back side of raw canvas presents color to the viewer with an atmospheric or “cloudy” appearance as the eye mixes pigment with transparent primer and raw canvas threads.
This provides an entirely new method of expressive mark making for artists to define volume, mass, and space.
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