Preparing a painting canvas be it for oil painting or acrylic requires some basic steps to achieve a smooth or textured surface depending on your choice of style.
Today, I would love to teach you how to prepare your local canvas.
Firstly, prepared a stretcher of whatsoever size you desire, give it a proper bracing hold to avoid bending or racking afterward
Secondly, cut your clothing material you want to use as your canvas to fit the size of your stretcher with extra one inch wider on all four edges for the purpose of tacking to the stretcher with the use of a gun stapler and stapler pins.
Thirdly, cover the part of the pins with masking tape to make your job neater when and after painting.
Prepared a mixture of Top Bond glue and Emotion paint (white is advisable) of 50% each to compliment a near accurate rate of mixture. Add little water to reduce thickness of mixed "gesso" , prime the stretched clothing material with the prepared gesso using a wide painting brush to cover up all surface.
Sun dry canvas for some time depending on the solar heat temperature, prime surface again for the second time, and sun dry again. Remove every stone particles on the surface when dried to avoid contours while painting.
Now your canvas is ready to paint on. Wish you a beautiful painting experience on your locally produced canvas.
Note: Locally prepared canvases give you opportunity to stretch as large size of canvas as you so like and even spending less compared to buy a ready made canvas. Also it give room for texturization of your canvas.
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