How to Make a Goat Skin Canvas | Painting for Preppers with Alastair Blain

When the Western World falls and painters can no longer buy their supplies, we must source it ourselves.
This is where kitschmen become preppers,
this is where boys become men,
and goats become canvas.
Tools:
Small axe
Knife
Chisel
Saw
Sandpaper
A pot
Materials:
Goat skin
Rope
Leather strips
Hazel branches
Copper tacks
Alder cones
00:31 STEP I: Wet scrape
03:39 STEP II: Making holes for stretching
04:34 STEP III: Stretching to dry
07:02 STEP IV: Dry scrape
09:08 STEP V: Harvesting alder cones & making a tannin brew
10:30 STEP VI: The tannin rub
16:18 STEP VII: Harvesting wood for the frame
20:27 STEP VIII: Cutting the hide
22:21 STEP IX: Stretching the hide onto the frame
28:01 IN THE STUDIO: Restretching and sizing?
30:58 Does the colour of the hide last?
32:03 Making egg tempera colours
41:15 How the paint behaves on the canvas
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[@MadArtGallery]

Just wonderful ❤

[@Carolinenor]

Everything this is art and real vital knowledge to!

[@Carolinenor]

Absolutly beautiful

[@Divertedflight]

Very interesting. Though I'd say that unless the new society is nomadic (thus the advantage of portability) it would make more sense to keep the skin for books and make thin joined planks of wood for the painting support. Production of these must be faster, and it's what they did in the past.

[@Divertedflight]

I use my fingers loosely cupped together to separation the yolk. The white slips though easily and I've had less risk of breaking the yolk.

[@noorjamshed159]

What is an alternative to tanin? I dont have this in my region

[@SchoolofApelles]

Alastair Blain recommends black tea as an alternative.

[@noorjamshed159]

@@SchoolofApelles Thank you :)

[@renaa571]

Omggggg

[@laurinioperdomo7683]

"And the painter can no longer buy supplies" ujum, im pretty sure you can buy supplies

[@OnlyForNoobs.PUBG2023]

Can have a goat skin but can't have art supplies 😂

[@dilbert1342]

Nice smell

[@saigeeta28]

I do not understand, what I witnessed. Is this legal ?

[@bryantvazquez18]

All this just to do paint a wannabe Nerdrum.