Make Your Own High Quality Canvases and Panels.

In this in-depth oil painting tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you exactly how he makes his farourite surfaces to work on, by stretching canvases and preparing panels for oil painting made with oil primed linen.

0:00 Intro
1:28 The difference between oil primer and acrylic gesso
2:34 Fitting together wooden stretcher bars
5:16 Making Canvases with un-primed raw linen
8:52 Preparing rabbit skin glue
10:04 Sizing un-primed raw linen
14:20 Applying an oil primer ground
18:32 Making a canvas with pre-primed linen
22:36 Using wooden canvas keys
24:03 Gluing pre-primed linen to panels

This is Alex's second video on how to make you own canvas for oil painting. In his previous video he showed you some cheap, quick and easy to make surfaces to be used for studies and practicing. The surfaces in this video, take longer to prepare but are professional artists' quality and they will perform much better archivally.

You can see Alex's previous video on supports here:
   • How to Prepare Your Own Supports for ...  

Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.

For Alex's course on the fundamentals of oil painting visit:
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http://alextzavaras.com