Summary: Put a staple in the first side of your canvas. Learn how to stretch a canvas for painting from a professional artist in this free video.
Anna Greene-Smith is a freelance illustrator. She graduated from MassArt in Boston in 2006 and spent some time studying at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She is...read more
"Ok. so now we're going to put in our first staple we'll just start with the side that's closest too us hear and on the, since this is the first staple that we're putting in there isn't really any pulling or stretching involved. You can just take the canvas put it over sometimes it makes a difference what size you are using, I mean what side you're going to be using for the front or the back because of the ridges. On this the ridging is the same so it doesn't matter. So bring it over and we'll put the first staple right in the middle that way it will be easier to stretch on the other sides to begin with. So we're going to put it right in the middle kind of put in the middle towards even closer to the inside than the outside so we're going to put it like right there. Ok. there we go."