
Today I'm getting ready for an art show I'm in next Saturday (February 6th.) I've been stretching some canvas Giclee prints of my flowers in bottles series that I'm taking with me to the show. It's a gardening symposium for the Greenville Master Gardeners Association, so I'm only bringing prints and paintings of flowers with me to sell at this show. Hopefully these Master Gardeners will love my prints and buy out my inventory!
To see all ten paintings in my “Flowers in Bottles” series, visit this page on my web site…

My prints are shipped to me from Prime Digital Media, a Fine-art Printer located in Milwaukee, WI that I've been happily using since 2007.

These are the wooden bars that I will stretch the prints onto. They come in separate pieces that I assemble into the finished size of my printed piece.

Between every staple I rotate the canvas first 180 degrees, then 90 degrees so that it's stretched tightly on all 4 sides.

The corners are the trickiest part. The canvas fabric is hard to fold, but after doing 100 or so of these little flowers I've gotten to be pretty quick. I can stretch about five prints per hour. When I first started, it took 45 for one. Imagine my distress at this after having spent over a thousand dollars in having ten paintings photographed for this purpose. Luckily I got faster at the stretching.

Here's the finished back. This was the first one I've done in a few months, so it's not quite as perfect as I like them to be. The little notebook in the upper right corner is my high-tech inventory system. There are ten different flowers in this series that I have to keep tracking of numbering. (The notebook actually works just fine for this!)