Video: Preparing a Canvas: Flicking

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When you flick the canvas you can see it is not bouncing. That is perfect. Learn how to stretch and prepare a canvas for painting from a professional artist in this free video.

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Okay, so once we have done the same thing to all four sides as we have here, you can see all of these sides look about the same. You should be done. You should have a nice, straight, tight canvas which is exactly what this is. This is perfect. And you can tell, you will be able to tell after you have done it a couple of times if it is tight enough just by the feel of it. But you should be able to like run your hand across it and not be feeling like you are going in. You can give it the old flick. When you flick it you can see it is not bouncing. That is perfect. This would be the time that if it wasn't tight enough if you would want to try to make some adjustments, see what is going on, but using the process we just did, you would always have it tight enough because you are constantly going back and checking to see if there are any ridges and evening those out along the way. This is perfect.

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Preparing a Canvas: Flicking

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