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I’ve been trying to figure out how best to position large canvases for painting since my current easel isn’t all that great and I’d rather spend the limited time I have painting rather than constructing another easel (which I’m sure I’ll do at some point). One of the challenges I keep running into is how to position my canvases, particularly the bigger ones, vertical instead of at an angle.
I just uploaded a new video to YouTube on making a canvas, specifically a gallery wrap canvas. This is the first video I made, but it’s just the middle part of the process that I shot for a complete painting. I’m going to try to get to a video on the building of the frame which is easy and cheap if you do it yourself, then the whole process of priming it and then, maybe, painting the whole picture. For small canvases I recommend going to the local art store and buying one, but for the larger ones, you can definitely save money making them yourselves, assuming you have the tools.