Stretching a canvas ...
is easy. You take four planks of wood, make a rectangle and pull the canvas over it. (Or pay framing stores a lot of money to do it for you).
Before you get frustrated starting from scratch get ready made heavy duty stretcher bars (best & cheapest:Utrecht Art Supplies). Their ends fit together so precisely that you dont need glue or nails. Asembly time for the perfect rectangle: 60 seconds.
Use of an electric stapling gun is mandatory. Start in the middle on all four sides, go to the outer sides of each stretcher bar in intervals of approximately 8 inches.
Ideally use stretching pliers (see photos) for the next step. Grab the canvas and pull against yourself. In the beginning stretch just enough to make it semi tight. Be willing to take out staples and re-stretch, so dont push the staples in all the way.
For the second round, start in the middle again and this time, go tighter with the staples on the longer stretcher bar. Leave 3 inches between each stape. Then do the other long side. Now you can really pull with those pliers.
Only when you are done with all four sides, approach the tricky task of making the corners look nice & tight. My method is to fold them on the short stretcher bar side and put as much of the canvas that will fold onto the back of the stretcher bar as is possible.
Voil. This should take 15 to 30 minutes, depending on your learning curve. Use your index finger in the middle of the canvas to feel the tightness. If it almost feel like a drum then youve done a great job. My estimate: youll need to practice on ten canvases before you start to do a decent job, and after the 20th canvas you can do it in your sleep.
Material cost for a 70 x 44 canvas with Utrecht stretcher bars: 35$. Staples are cheap, obviously. The staple gun will pay for itself soon if you compare it to any framing store. And, best of all, it is fun and gives you that wonderful sense of having accomplished something with your own hands.--Tomas Loewy
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Another source for bars is Daniel Smith. They're a little bit more than Utrecht, but I think the bars are nicer.
Depending on how big your canvas is and how tightly you need to stretch the canvas, you may want a stablizer bar in the middle if it's a 'long' rectangle (so the tautness of the canvas doesn't bow the long side inward). I use cheap 1x2s cut to length and fitted 'inside' the frame. I use long nails (stainless steel roofing type) to bang through the outside frame bar and into the stabilzer bar. (You will likely have to drill the hole for it first.)
Otherwise, great tutorial!
i know this wouldn't work for everyone, but especially when traveling, i just buy preprimed unstretched canvas and roll it up... then i just tack it to a wall or paint flat on a table. sometimes i like the way it looks just hung like that or floated in a frame.
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I used to make stretchers for others when I was an art guy (now an indentured servant to the legal profession - curse you law school loans!) - and am in the 2x2 with quarter round nailed on the canvas side to lift the canvas away from any cross bars or stretcher bars during more agressive work. Also, torsion is often as much of a problem as bowing if you overstretch. Don't be afraid to loosen, and the canvas WILL get looser for the first few rounds of gesso and oil...but it will tighten back up a bit as it dries. If you can do hospital corners on your bed, yuo can stretch a good canvas.
It doesn't seem that easy to stretch it, IMHO...
I've tried it once with zero results, however. Hopefully will get a chance to repeat..
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