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Garth,
Thank you for posting your pictoral canvas streching instructions. As usual you did a fine job, and I learned alot from it. I do have a couple of questions that I hope you will answer, and I have a problem canvas that I am faced with.
Do you find your heavy strecher bars a pain to frame? I used to use heavy bars but framing was difficult.
I studied Morgan Weistling's video of his streching technique and this is of course quite different than yours.
I have completed a painting that I am very happy with on a 36x40" Clausens type 13 pre-primed fine weave Belgian linen canvas that I strechted on slightly heavier than standard strecher bars. Now that finished painting has these pesky ripples on the sides that I am having problems removing.
When initially streching the canvas it seemed difficult. The canvas felt very stiff, and with this large size, it was dificult getting the result I wanted. After working on streching quite a while I eventually decided to use the canvas as is, and if the painting was successful, and if there was a slight rippling problem, I would re-strech it later.
Well I finished the painting, and it was a good one, and ripples were noticable so I removed the canvas, checked the stretcher bars for correctness, than began re-stretching. After several hours and attempts I am still not satisfied. I took my remaining canvas to a local supplier and they told me that they thought the canvas may have imperfect rippling in it, so to be safe, I sent the canvas back and it was relaced.
In any case, Im still stuck with a painting that I cant get the ripples out and Im not sure what caused the problem to begin with. I have other large canvases that dont have this problem so Im at a loss!
In addition, I learned that pulling the canvas tighter may have even seemed to increase the ripples. The ripples are along the sides and appear only when hit by certain lighting.
I would appreciate any of your your feedback Garth as well as from other who read this post.
Thanks so much,
Mark Lovett
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