Care and feeding of a grumpy chicken

[nancylebov]

I have acquired a Grumpy Chicken print by Ursula Vernon.



Mostly I want to gloat--it's even grumpier and somewhat more textured in person, but I'd also like some advice. How do I take care of it so that someone 500 years from now (I'm hoping it's on archival paper) who desperately needs to see a grumpy chicken will have a chance to do so?

I can't seem to get the image to embed, so there's the link.

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this is very way cool

[wolfdancer.livejournal.com]

and I wish I knew. snicker. I would say mount it on acid free stock and mat it and put it behind lead glass so that sun light will not break it down then put it in a dark room.
snicker.

Re: this is very way cool

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Ursula Vernon is ursulav--she's a very funny writer as well as being a good artist.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

You might put it in a frame under an acid-free mat with uv-blocking glass and hang it someplace where it's not too bright and won't get any direct sunlight. (If you don't want to mat it, at least put spacers between it and the glass so that the print isn't allowed to touch the glass.)

Grumpy Creatures

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

When I see that particular facial expression (http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t291/smbrinich/CatPics/HeidiOwlCatGlare.jpg), it's usually on a cat.

The picture is of our Heidi, and that's the face she gives us when she sees the suitcases come out.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Typically in my experience you can expect to spend as much or more money on the framing/preservation of a print as you spend on the print itself.

(Our most extreme case was a pair of full-sheet posters for The Incredibles, ou, pardonnez-moi, Les Indestructibles, which we got freefernothin' by asking the guy who was taking them down -- in a Paris subway station -- what he was going to do with them. They were free mounting and framing them cost us $1300...and the people who did it managed to put a wrinkle in each of the posters.)

In the case of UrsulaV's "grumpy chicken" -- which, by the way, I thought when she posted it and think now has a strangely PennsylDutch look to it -- I'd suggest pretty much what others have: acid-free matting and backing, UV-resistant glass.

If you have it done professionally it will cost you O($200). If you do it yourself it will cost you much less, but probably won't look as good.

Is this your first fine art print purchase?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I guess it is my first--I'm not sure how you define fine art, but there are only 15 copies in the world, and I like it a lot.

I don't think I want to throw $200 at it, but DIY acid-free mat and UV resistant glass look a lot cheaper than that.

A frame can come later if I want.

I'm contemplating the question of what color mat--black is the obvious choice, but some reasonably quiet color might work better.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

My personal & possibly atypical experience is that a black or white matte doesn't work so well with a B&W print. A quiet earth tone is probably your best go, though I somehow see a kind of dark red halo around this particular image that might work for a matte.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Personally, I second the idea of a dark but true red, though I suspect that earthtones might be more to your taste. Either way would work.