Artists{3 {0 water color paper stretcher and holder

摘要

An artists' water color paper stretcher and holder receives wet water color painting paper and similar materials to hold the paper and thereby to cause its stretching during drying, and thereafter to continue holding the paper during the artists' water color painting. This stretcher and holder is a flat top surfaced structure having grooves around its perimeter to receive wedges. Water color painting paper, when wet, is placed over the flat top surfaced structure and extended beyond the perimeter grooves. Thereafter the perimeter wedges are pressed into the perimeter grooves carrying the wet water color paper edges into the grooves, thereby snugly fitting the water color paper to the flat surface of the artists' water color paper stretcher and holder. Other features of the overall structure of the artists' water color paper stretcher and holder include, in various embodiments: a selectively reenforcing ribbed bottom with the ribs formed to provide a storage space for painting supplies having a cover; in addition a rearwardly projecting portion of the board such as the rim forms a water tray for soaking the watercolor paper prior to stretching; and after a picture is completed a picture frame is attached by inserting projections on the frame into slots in the wedges and thereafter the artists' water color paper stretcher and holder continues on in service as a display structure.