Make Your Own High Quality Canvases and panels

Become a Master Painter in Just 90 Days https://alextzavaras.com/90Days/ Learn my MOST Effective Techniques (In Only 4 Minutes) https://alex-tzavaras.kit.com In this in-depth oil painting tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you exactly how he makes his farourite surfaces to work on, by stretching canvases and preparing panels for oil painting made with oil primed linen. 0:00 Intro 1:28 The difference between oil primer and acrylic gesso 2:34 Fitting together wooden stretcher bars 5:16 Making Canvases with un-primed raw linen 8:52 Preparing rabbit skin glue 10:04 Sizing un-primed raw linen 14:20 Applying an oil primer ground 18:32 Making a canvas with pre-primed linen 22:36 Using wooden canvas keys 24:03 Gluing pre-primed linen to panels