How to Stretch Canvas: Make Your Own Canvas Pt. 2
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This lesson goes over the standard way to stretch canvas including properly folding corners and finishing off the back of the canvas so that it can be framed easily.
Your canvases are a work of art unto themselves! Nice work and dedication to quality.
I like to make sure the build is good. It's the whole package that counts.
Thanks for your time in putting this video out there...
You're welcome. I'll do more on this type of thing as well.
Your videos are the best. Very informative.
Thanks. Let me know how else I can help!
Great tutorial. Thanks!
You're welcome.
Cheers m8 !!! very nice tutorial
Cheers! Thanks. More on the subject on the channel as well.
Very thoroughly explained!
Thanks. Sometimes I go along into too much detail. But hopefully this helps.
@@MeadMcLean haha better if you over communicate things I think and it did help! Thank you! I recently made a 14x9 inch canvas with drop cloth and now I’m making a 32x18!
Thank you!
You're welcome. Let me know how else I can help.
Excellent demo, especially the corner job. Please do one for ready brought primed canvas.
Ok. Do you mean stretching a primed canvas or do you mean a canvas that's already primed and stretched?
Thanks for your promt reply. I meant stretching a already primed canvas which we buy in a roll. I guess the process would be the same only was thinking of how much I should pull the canvas. Bye the way I use a canvas plier which pulls very tight.
The canvas pliers tend to pull too tight on unprimed canvas, but they might be necessary for pre-primed canvas. I think the main concern is that the stretch should be even, no matter how tight it gets. Also, once it's stretched, you should probably give it another coat or two of primer to be sure it's actually primed fully.
@@MeadMcLean OK thanks so much. Yes I have been doing it the way you suggested. The extra primer coat after stretching is a good idea.
First off, thank you!
Secondly: Why do some stretch bars have those "teeth" at the end that people specially cut out? Specifically, they're three triangles that allow it to slide in to each other? Thanks!
Commercially made bars are made to slot into each other and increase tension by inserting keys into the gaps in the joints. I'm not as much a fan of those. They're kind of expensive and for me, they tend to have warped a lot over time.
@@MeadMcLean Yeah I agree. Plus it's easy to make your own like this. Sure painting on the canvas could "warp" it, where using keys to expand the joints could tighten the canvas again, but IMO at that point it's just worth it re-tightening the staple locations a little.
But thank you! I get free shipping wood that happens to have 1" thick walls, so I can effectively cut in to my production significantly, thus allow me to sell more cost-effective paintings.
For the canvas side do you sand the beveled edge to take out the edge?
Maybe just a little. Sometimes I'll run a knife down to take off the burrs.
Can heavy bedsheets be used for acrylic canvas?
Technically you could use any fabric. But a heavy bedsheet will probably tear if you stretch it too tight. Try it out and let me know how it goes.
what is the thread count on the fabric?
It goes by weight in oz. I like the mid-weight around 12-14 oz
Pretty decent of you to do all this for ppl
No problem. I like to see the info I struggled to find get out there for everyone.
What brand of canvas do you use?
I'm not picky. I just get a midweight one. Lightweight is easy to stretch, but I tear it sometimes.