Triptychs are a wonderful format for artwork. They look great over a couch, along the wall behind the dining room table, over a large screen TV or over the headboard of a bed. Gallery wrapped as three panels, the depth of the canvas panels adds a 3D aspect to the artwork (almost like a hanging sculpture) creating a more interesting presentation that invites the eye and intrigues the senses.
Almost any piece of my artwork can be re-worked into a triptych.
One of the original challenges of making triptychs was figuring out how to plan for the proper overlap of the artwork on each of the three canvases so that there there is no break in continuity looking across the three panels. What would appear in-between the panels is wrapped on the inner edges of the two adjacent panels, so one must allow for the proper overlap when creating each panel.
Hanging triptychs so that each panel is in perfect alignment may seem like a daunting task, but it is actually quite easy. There are two methods that I can share with you in a future blog entry.