Preparing a Canvas: Locate Areas for Nails

Video Transcript

"Okay, so now you can think about how you are going to want to be hanging this canvas eventually once you have finished it. This is just regular old square so it doesn't matter what side you are going to be hanging it from. If it was something that was more rectangular you would want to be thinking about the composition of what you are going to be painting before you put any nails into this. It should be fine. So, let's pick this side and then there are all sorts of different things that you could use to nail. You could just use a nail; you could use something like this, these kinds of hooks. Depending on how large your canvas is and how heavy, that should be a consideration. Today we are going to use something like this, but if your canvas was really, really heavy you might want to use something more sturdy and strong. So, you just want to put it right in the middle and we will locate, let's see that would be, just by eye balling it, right about here. And with something like this, it can be, it doesn't have to be exactly precisely in the middle and like you don't have to measure it because you can hang it on either of these things. So, that should be fine. We'll be putting it right there."