How to stretch your own canvas

Making your own DIY canvas stretcher bars is a great way to save money on canvas paintings, and it's easier than you might think! Here's how to do it.

To frame a painted canvas, the canvas must first be stretched over and attached to stretcher bars. You can buy stretcher bars in an art supply or crafts store. You also can make your own stretcher bars using lengths of wood, a saw and a...

Stretcher bars come in a variety of lengths to allow for different sized canvases. Learn how to stretch a canvas with stretcher bars. Read more.

As luck would have it, or maybe it was karma, my canvas showed up yesterday – right after I posted the blog! So, of course I had to whip up a frame to mount it on. Then, I had to write another blog to build up some more blogging karma…come on lucky lotto numbers 😉...

Alison Wong, the master mind behind Butter Projects in Royal Oaks Michigan, leads us through the process of building a canvas stretcher. On a table saw, rip lumber at a 15 degree angle down the len…

A stretched canvas is – poetically and literally – a blank space on which to apply original creative works: paintings, screen prints, photo transfers…

I have always fancied gallery walls filled with frameless canvas paintings. Having a gallery wall can get pricey, unless I show you how to stretch the canvas artwork yourself!

By admin in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials Several months ago I wrote about how to make your own stretcher bars for paintings, but only briefly talked about how to stretch canvas over them. Some people think stretching canvas is difficult, so they never try it—but today I’ll take you through each step of the process so you can see how easy it really is. And apart from the stretcher bar frame itself, you’ll only need unprimed canvas (I’m using #10 cotton […]

Shades of green blend together to create this striking work of art. A dark, almost black, green fades to a pale, minty shade. I've used a mixture of acrylic paints, on a canvas measuring 40cm (15.8") wide by 30cm (11.8") high, to create this piece. The colours of these paints continue over the sides of the canvas on which this is painted, to give one continuous block of colour, meaning that this painting does not need to be framed.