Tom Elden with Paintings (on Left) Destination Art Torrance CA June 2017

​11" x 14"
Acrylic on canvas board
Framed   
The photo for this painting was provided by Rich Steip.   Photo taken a long time ago.  The church is a now abandoned Methodist Church in Hillsborough Center New Hampshire.   Apparently a neighbor keeps it in good shape.

Ever have a small hole in an oil painting?   Easily repaired if you don't use too strong a glue.   In the small painting of Seifert's Farm Supply sanding had created a tiny hole.  I simply cut a patch from a canvas used to experiment and glued to the reverse with school glue.   I then patched the front with Liquin Impasto.    

Ever have a serious groove in a canvas where the stretcher bar has creased the canvas?   Impossible to fix using water on the reverse to shrink the canvas unless the mark is slight.  The only way to repair grooves like this is with Liquin Impasto spread on with a knife and then smoothed out and the edges feathered.   A light sanding can help but after a couple coats of paint you may
have some uneven surfaces but definitely the groove running along the stretcher bar will be gone.

Here is a new oil painting by Tom Elden.   It will be auctioned in Salem Oregon May 18 2017 to support the local American Inn of Court which is raising money for Marion County Court Care.

Ever have a small hole in an oil painting?   Easily repaired if you don't use too strong a glue.   In the small painting of Seifert's Farm Supply sanding had created a tiny hole.  I simply cut a patch from a canvas used to experiment and glued to the reverse with school glue.   I then patched the front with Liquin Impasto.    
Ever have a serious groove in a canvas where the stretcher bar has creased the canvas?   Impossible to fix using water on the reverse to shrink the canvas unless the mark is slight.  The only way to repair grooves like this is with Liquin Impasto spread on with a knife and then smoothed out and the edges feathered.   A light sanding can help but after a couple coats of paint you may have some uneven surfaces but definitely the groove running along the stretcher bar will be gone.

So artbytomelden.com website is now nuclear with activation of our blog.   To kick things off a shout out to webmaster Adrienne whose link is found on artbytomelden.com.   Also framer Jon Thornton of Torrance CA can be linked to as well.   Updates:   as of 2015 I shifted mostly to oil (see two below)  and then in 2016 added watercolor to the mix.  Below my photo is Jon Thornton of Four Sticks Framing with an Elden watercolor March 2017.  email me at artbytomelden@gmail.com
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