6x36 3D Pro Isola Canvas 2-1/2" #DI-0636

True 6:1 Super Extreme Proportion - 6x36 Size

This stunning 6x36 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:

8x48 • 12x72

Explore Related Products to this 6x36 Size:

• Alkyd / Oil Primed Linen: Malibu™ • Vintage L21C™ • Ventura™ • Versailles™ • Poitiers™
• Raw Unprimed Linen: Torrey Pines™ • Mandalay™
• Acrylic Primed Linen: Muir™ • Vintage L22U™ • Santa Cruz™ • Saint-Cloud™ • Grenoble™ • Pau™
• Acrylic Primed Cotton: Monterey™ • Carmel™ • Tahoe™ • Heavy Weight 14oz cotton • Sierra™ • Shasta™

Isola™ Heavy Weight Oil Primed Artfix Linen

Our heaviest weight oil primed linen canvas. Great for large and small works with a very heavy body, yet has a refreshing medium surface tooth.

• 100% Belgian Linen 8.6 oz.; Primed Weight 14.1 oz. per square yard
• Heavy Weight, Dense Weave, Medium Texture
• Double Sized and Double Primed with acid-free archival quality oil primed ground
• Impenetrable ground prevents oil paint from leaching through and harming the canvas
• For 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.

6x36 2.5" 3D Pro Deep Edge Heavy Duty Strainer Frame Offers Maximum Support!

• Drawing depicts the exact frame construction, not the proportion
• Super Strong Strainer Bars are 2.5" deep x 1-1/4" wide
• Fixed Corner Frame - Not keyable or expandable
• Super Strong Keyable Brace Included (3/4"" x 3.25")
• The Bars have a clever utility groove on the inside perimeter of the frame to attach the brace
• Patented Keyable Braces allow you to tension the canvas in the middle, where it's needed the most

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.

Sustainable Forests Ensure More Wood for Communities

Using lumber from sustainably managed forests is not only the responsible thing to do, it's also a way to ensure that the wood products we rely on continue to be available in the future. By supporting sustainable forestry practices, we can help to ensure a steady supply of wood products while also protecting the environment and supporting local communities.

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

When you hold a Masterpiece® 3D™ Pro 2.5 canvas in your hand, you can immediately sense the quality materials, workmanship and design of this very fine canvas, as will those who will ultimately acquire your art. The colors and canvas you select becomes the foundation of your painting. Your reputation depends upon the quality of your artwork and the integrity of your material choices. Savvy art buyers and art enthusiasts place a higher value on artwork made with quality materials because they expect their investment in your art will last hundreds, if not a thousand years. Using the best materials is a great investment in your own legacy and your brand.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. ♦ Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin, with his innate ability to juxtapose the raw with the refined, highlights a fundamental dichotomy in the realm of artistic creation. Known for his ventures into the heart of Tahiti and his immersion into cultures untouched by Western conventions, Gauguin experienced firsthand the unbridled, instinctual beauty that emerges spontaneously from the soul. This 'instinctual beauty' is born from the immediacy of feeling, the unmediated expressions of the heart.

On the other hand, Gauguin, having been a part of the European art scene, understood the meticulous beauty that emerges from rigorous study, practice, and discipline. This 'studied beauty' requires artists to hone their skills, refine their techniques, and gain a deeper understanding of their medium. Both forms of beauty hold merit. For artists, we often find ourselves oscillating between these two poles, tapping into our raw instincts in one moment and relying on our learned techniques in another. Gauguin's insight serves as a reminder for us to embrace both facets, knowing that our art can be enriched when instinct and study merge, creating masterpieces that touch the soul and challenge the intellect.

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We curated this empowering quote with some context and hope you find it insightful, plus we created this unique portrait of Paul Gauguin to make it a bit more intriguing. Now get to work on your own!