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Summary: Customizing canvas pictures allows the artist to create canvases in any size or shape. Customize canvas with tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting.
Carlos A. Navarro was born in Havana, Cuba. He came with his parents to Miami as a 4-year old refugee. Navarro, a naturally talented young painter, was put under the guidance and...read more
"In this clip I'm going to show you how to customize a canvas. This is the regular type of canvas that you would buy a stretched canvas that you would by at a normal art store and as you can see it is pretty much perfect but what happens if you want to do your own. For example let's suppose you've got this picture. This picture is a little bit bigger. As you can see this is a very different type of canvas and by customizing it what that means is you have created a picture that is not the same size as most pictures and done a canvas structure on the back that is your own by cutting it and creating the stretcher. So this one would be very difficult to do because this is an oval frame and you want to create a canvas and stretcher for it and in other words you probably wouldn't be able to buy this, you would have to do it yourself."
eHow Article: How to Customize Canvas Pictures