How to stretch your own canvas

While ready-made stretched canvases are a convenient choice many artists require the higher quality of custom canvases where you can also choose the size and characteristics. Jackson’s offers a reasonably priced bespoke service or you can stretch your own canvas.

Get inspired by your own two hands with this quick, economical and useful project… The first time I stretched my own canvas, I swear, I heard angels singing. While my painting professor at the time would likely argue I had no business being behind a canvas in the first place, the connection made between a quality surface and […]

I have always fancied gallery walls filled with frameless canvas paintings. Having a gallery wall can get pricey, unless I show you how to stretch the canvas artwork yourself!

Make a large canvas to display a wall tapestry or to paint large art. From the frame to stretching the canvas, use this giant art DIY.

Alison Wong, the master mind behind Butter Projects in Royal Oaks Michigan, leads us through the process of building a canvas stretcher. On a table saw, rip lumber at a 15 degree angle down the len…

As luck would have it, or maybe it was karma, my canvas showed up yesterday – right after I posted the blog! So, of course I had to whip up a frame to mount it on. Then, I had to write another blog to build up some more blogging karma…come on lucky lotto numbers 😉...

A stretched canvas is – poetically and literally – a blank space on which to apply original creative works: paintings, screen prints, photo transfers…

build a giant canvas frame using a drop cloth

In this step-by-step guide, we will show you all the supplies you need to make a canvas and how to stretch a canvas onto a frame

By admin in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials Several months ago I wrote about how to make your own stretcher bars for paintings, but only briefly talked about how to stretch canvas over them. Some people think stretching canvas is difficult, so they never try it—but today I’ll take you through each step of the process so you can see how easy it really is. And apart from the stretcher bar frame itself, you’ll only need unprimed canvas (I’m using #10 cotton […]