12x72 3D Pro Saint-Cloud Canvas 2-1/2" #DD-1272

True 6:1 Super Extreme Proportion - 12x72 Size

This stunning 12x72 size part of our Super Extreme 6:1 Aspect Ratio series.

This dramatic extreme proportion is used in both art and cinematography to bring focus on a sliver of your overall subject. This proportion can have a sense of depth and perspective in the painting, particularly for landscapes or compositions with a strong sense of spatial relationships. The canvas could be used for a wide, expansive landscape with a distant horizon line, or to create a sense of depth in a still life or portrait. The long and narrow shape could be used to create a sense of stability or symmetry, with elements arranged in a way that is visually balanced. Or you might use it to create tension or dynamism in the composition by placing elements in unexpected or asymmetrical positions. Using this proportion will no doubt make you think creatively about how to use this unusual shape to your advantage. This can be somewhat challenging, but it may help the artist to develop a new technique and approach to a composition in this format.

Here are a couple of other sizes in the exact same 6:1 proportion:

6x36 • 8x48

Explore Related Products to this 12x72 Size:

• Acrylic Primed Linen: Muir™ • Vintage L22U™ • Santa Cruz™ • Vintage L22U™ • Grenoble™ • Pau™
• Acrylic Primed Cotton: Monterey™ • Carmel™ • Tahoe™ • Heavy Weight 14oz cotton • Sierra™
• Alkyd Oil Primed Linen: Malibu™ • Ventura™
• Oil Primed Linen: Vintage L21C™ • Versailles™ • Isola™ • Poitiers™
• Monet™ Pro 1.5

Saint-Cloud™ Acrylic Primed Artfix Linen

Strong fine weave medium weight linen. Hand-primed to have a consistent homogenous surface tooth. It has a bright white tone.

• 100% Belgian Linen 6.1 oz.; Primed Weight 13.9 oz. per square yard
• Medium Weight, Closed Weave, Medium Texture
• Double Sized and Double Primed with acid-free archival quality acrylic gesso
• Impenetrable ground prevents oil paint from leaching through and harming the canvas
• For acrylics, oils, alkyds, and water miscible oil paints
• Linen has natural oils that prevent disintegration over time.

3D™ Pro 2.5 Stretcher Bar • 1/2" Canvas Clearance

1/2" Canvas Clearance is the space between the Bar and the canvas. Generally speaking, more clearance reduces the risk of the canvas touching the wood and creating unsightly lines during painting. Our design provides the optimal clearance so as not to impact your painting, but still leaving enough wood to the maximize strength of the Stretcher Bar.

• Produces a 2.5" deep stretched canvas (Actual depth is slightly thinner)
• 1.25" wide Stretcher Bar
• All Bars have an exclusive groove on the inside perimeter of the frame to which cross braces and Diamond Corner Braces attach
• Solid Ponderosa Pine or Fir from the Pacific Northwest

Solid Wood is Archival - Finger Jointed Wood is Not

We only use Solid Wood to build our Stretcher Bars because a solid piece of wood will last indefinitely. When we speak of archival value, it's not just the paint you use and the quality of your canvas and ground, even the wood choices manufacturers make are part of the archival process.

The principal reason manufactures use finger jointed wood is reduce cost, not increase archival value. Wood constantly grows and shrinks when the environment becomes hotter, or colder, or more humid, or more dry. Because finger jointed wood is made-up of multiple and varied pieces of wood, with varying grain patterns and densities, they each absorb and shed moisture at varying rates, which works on the glue joints that hold them together, causing the wood to bow and the joints to eventually fail, and certainly not consistent with increasing the archival value of your artwork frame support.

As a manufacturer, we do our part to conserve as much wood as possible, and still provide a quality made product that will out-perform any other in the marketplace.

12x72 2.5" Deep Edge Heavy Frame Offers Maximum Support!

• Drawing depicts the exact frame construction, not the proportion
• 2.5" Deep Edge K2 Heavy Stretcher Bars are precision machined with a unique double tongue-and-groove corner joint that provides rock-solid torsional rigidity that resists warping or twisting, which is an important benefit for such a deep edge canvas
• Two parallel 3/4" thick super strong keyable braces (3.25" wide) provide excellent frame support for this 12x72 size - Braces are permanently installed in the frame, but canvas tension may be increased by tapping-in the keys or wedges that slightly expand the size of the frame
• The Stretcher Bars have an proprietary utility groove on the inside perimeter of the frame which is used to attach braces and other optional frame supports
• The Masterpiece braces feature an exclusive system that allows you to increase the tension to the middle of the frame, where the tension is needed the most; it's so unique it earned us a patent
• To increase canvas tension: 1) remove any staples in the corners and those that retain the brace keys in the middle, 2) tap all of the expansion keys further into their respective slots, 3) tighten and re-staple the canvas in the corners

Canvas Tension is in Your Control

In dry climates or air conditioned environments, the lack of moisture in the air causes wood frames to shrink and the canvas fibers to narrow and elongate making the canvas more slack and resulting in a loss of canvas tension. In some instances, the canvas could have waves on the surface resulting in an unsightly viewing experience.

Our 3D™ Pro 2.5 professional frames provide the functionality for you to slightly expand the size of the frame in the corners and the middle of the canvas, thereby increasing canvas tension all across the surface. The difference between a loose canvas and a tight canvas is just 1/8" of an inch, so a small adjustment using our corner and brace keys makes an important difference in canvas tension.

• Helps to prevent waves that occur in a loose canvas
• Increase canvas tension by tapping-in the corner and brace keys
• True professional class canvases make it possible for you to adjust the canvas tension

Cross Braces Make it Tighter

A tightly stretched canvas on an un-braced frame overpowers the Stretcher Bars causing them to bow inward and thereby lose tension. Sometimes that bow can expose a space in picture frames.

When a canvas is stretched on a properly supported frame, the cross-braces prevent the Bars from bowing thereby achieving maximum canvas tension. To increase the canvas tension even more, simply tap the corner and brace keys further in their slots. Properly supported frames provide you with the control over the canvas tension of your canvas and painting.

Sustainably Managed Forests Purify the Air

Our forests purify the air by filtering nearly 40% of the fossil fuel emissions humans create, and are critical to reducing global warming. More trees are needed on this planet, not fewer, for our own healthy human survival. Therefore, we use lumber grown in responsibly managed forests, so future generations can benefit from our responsible actions today.

MuseumWrap™ Stretching Technique

With more than a half a century of American engineering, Masterpiece® designs and builds its own proprietary stretching equipment that enables us to produce the finest and most tightly-stretched canvas on the market.

• Drum-tight stretch!
• Up to 50% tighter than other methods
• Balanced tension across the surface
• Uncut folded corners make it possible to remove and re-stretch canvas on the same size frame
• Usually the corner folds are on the long sides

Every artist's journey to greatness starts with a blank canvas. Since 1965, Masterpiece® has been the trusted companion in that journey, offering the finest canvases in North America. Your creativity, combined with our canvas, has the potential to turn into a priceless treasure. The choices you make today pave the way for tomorrow's legacy.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action. ♦ Nicolas de Staël

The paradoxical nature of freedom and limitation comes to light in this thought-provoking sentiment from Nicolas de Staël. Often in art, as in life, constraints can be catalysts for innovation. Setting boundaries can push us to think differently, to approach problems from new angles, and to truly harness the depths of our creativity. Instead of viewing limitations as stifling, de Staël saw them as a means to explore uncharted territories within a defined space.

The vast expanse of artistic possibilities can be overwhelming. With limitless options, where does one begin? By narrowing our focus and setting specific boundaries, we give ourselves a framework within which to push the boundaries of our imagination. It's within these constraints that we find a concentrated energy, a force that propels our creativity forward.

It's a testament to de Staël's wisdom that he recognized the power of limitations in defining his art. By narrowing his field of action, he wasn't confining himself; he was laying the groundwork for profound exploration. In our careers, embracing such constraints can lead to unexpected avenues of creativity and expression, reminding us that sometimes, to truly be free, we must first set our own boundaries.

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We hope to inspire your art with this wonderful quote and our interpretation along with our own one-of-a-kind portrait of Nicolas de Staël..got to love it!

Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner

While all of our Masterpiece® Pro canvases are stretched very tightly and our frames have a built-in method to increase tension, we have another method to add canvas tension. Tight'n'Up™ Liquid Canvas Retensioner (sold separately) can be sprayed on the back of a canvas to repair most canvas tension issues.

With Tight'n'Up™, you can add tension to just a small area, or a large area. Simply spray it lightly on the back and brush it into the canvas, and within seconds, your canvas becomes tighter and stays tighter. The more you use, the tighter it gets.