Thank you so much! This is by far the best stretching demo on youtube. I'm really particular about the fold of corners and stretching canvas and this is a great resource detailing the whole process, necessary tools and materials. Thank you Katerina! I hope you don't mind me using this in my painting courses during our remote, pandemic times.
@@KaterinaLanfranco1 I wonder if you can help me with exhibición. I am working at home as a painter. I ve got less work at the moment. Thank you in anticipation sweet friend I LOVE your teaching and I LOVE It here. Thanks for sharing with us ✨👍
This was perfect and easy to follow. I have a lot of wood and would like to learn how to carve/cut my own stretcher bars. I'm going to see how this can be done without having to buy a miter saw. Thank you very much!!!! I'm going to work on this project.
I wish I can strech a Canvas here, it's a lot easier back home where there is a carpinter to make you a frame. And there are Canvas in shops too. I need to start painting, but Sometimes I ask myself and the Lord to provide the Canvas ,as the price of relatively Big Canvas is usually exhorbitant or expensive if you will. Thank you for sharing this awesome video 👍 blessings to you that can read this comment 👍
Thanks so much Katerina. The very first thing I learnt is that its not canvas on a frame but on a stretcher bar...never heard it called that before. You were very easy to understand eg your explanation was simple and to the point. Merry Christmas from Western Australia 2023
Hi and thank you for this free lesson. You could reach more audience if you would use the metric system : ) Maybe you should do a reupload with all the learnings from the past years and how you build frames. Greetings from germany
She'd have to do two videos if using different measurement systems. This was done in the U.S. and we use the imperial system. I.E., If I watch a video from the UK, I convert the measurements myself, not ask the video maker to convert to the measurement system I natively use.
Interesting to note that you don't staple the canvas when it's under pressure, but use the pliers to take up the slack. I've been painting canvases since 1971 and eschewed the use of the pliers - preferring to use my bare hands only because the pliers can pull the canvas inwards - but not sideways as well in order to minimize the inter-staple bunching. These problems are why I now prefer to paint on cradled wood panels. Also, I NEVER stretched unprimed canvases as the unprimed stuff has a far higher stretching quotient than the heavier primed stuff.
Hi, unfortunately these were the only ones that the art department produced. I’ve made a couple more in my studio, but am thinking of making more. Let me know what you’re looking for.
Thanks for the video. I bought two expensive paintings canvas and I would prefer someone more experienced to do the stretching for me. How do I find one?
Hi Katerina Please forgive my ignorance. I need to get some Stretcher Bar Cross Braces for stretchers I just purchased. The stretchers I bought are to assemble Four 28X40 & Four 26X40. Here is my question: Do I need to get Braces exactly the same size as the stretchers? I mean for the assembled 28 X 40 get Braces 28 & 40 Or would it be okay to use Brace size 27 instead? Why do I think this is a silly question?
Thank you for the very thorough instructions. Helped with our first canvas stretching (36" x 48"). However, we felt the pliers we used were too large. What are the brand of pliers you used in the video? They look smaller.
Thank you professor. I have a painting shipped from overseas that i want to re stretch and frame. Any suggestions (other than hiring a professional which will cost me about $380) to DIY? Thanks -reply or like; youtube would do the rest
Yes, you’ve probably figured this out by now, but here is my answer: you can get stretcher bars to size (careful of the depth too because this is variable). Then place the painting face down on a clean surface - some kind of soft/protective layer in between would be ideal like glycine (but not vital). Then stretch your painting. Be careful not to overstretch the painting especially if it is thinly painted or older (especially oil). Acrylic will be more elastic for a longer period of time. Good luck and pay attention to the original corner folds to match them up.
Someone told me to paint the back of the canvas with water to get a tighter stretch - what do you think? You have to be sure to get the canvas underneath the stretcher bars wet, too. I've only done this once and it seemed to be good.
you can buy rolls of canvas online on websites like amazon and some really big art supply stores have them but they're usually few and far between in person
I'm making an extra large canvas, 3 metres square and I need to remove it from the frame and roll it up for storage. Do you have any suggestions for that? I guess it would be similar to making a floor cloth. I was going to add eyelets around the edges too so I could tie it to the frame again
So, im unclear as to what youre calling stretcher bars. Are you attaching the canvas onto an already assembled frame, and the frame is the stretcher bar?
Great Video . I am doing a painting 28"x 36" . It looks like from your video I would be better off using a strainer than strecter bars. Is it possible to suggest place to buy good quality stretcher bars/ strainers. Most the the main stream art supply houses seem to carry flimsy then ones.
Joanne Amantea you can order heavy duty stretcher bars from Blick, however there are companies that make custom strainer bars too, ie www.simonliuinc.com
oh, and is there also a trick to a painting that has edges that has to fit the edges on the frame? So the front painting is only on the front, and the edges of the painting starts exactly at the edges. And so the front painting is not overstretched over the edges. Is it better to start with a frame that is slightly bigger than the front painting, so it can be "stretched into place" instead of having no buffer to either over or under stretch to match the frame's edges.
Question: I’ve had trouble with stretcher bars warping due to moisture- when the canvas gets loose I sometimes spray water on the back of the canvas which sometimes gets on the wooden stretchers and have had problems with warping I’m just about to do a large piece for a client and wondering if I should use varnish on the wood before I stretch the canvas over it to waterproof it. Is there any upside /downside to doing this? Thnx
@@KaterinaLanfranco1great tip with the kiln dry wood. I had a guy make me 7ft tall canvases for a big commission and they ended up warping and the client withdrew from the project… he didn’t use kiln dry wood and I was such a beginner in all of this. I had no idea 😅
Hey, thank you so much for this video. Do you mind if we had another video explaining everything about glazing after a painting. To avoid a gray reflective effect when a painting is under the sun and the best glazing products?
Don’t overstretch it. Depending on how thick the paint is, and how long ago it was painted it could be brittle. Try to line up the edges of the painting to the stretcher bars. Good luck 🍀
