So it's been over a month now since I started my Siwes/Industrial Training with one of my respected art tutors, he's a practicing artist, even though he doesn't do the kind of art I would to paint myself, his level of commitment, orderliness, and passion really inspires me a lot and that I brought me this far with my stay at his studio.
He's been taking me on some theoretical materials and needs I have as an artist to survive and also some practical moves most especially with my drawings. He has practically made my drawings go beyond me drawing to have something beautiful to drawing to understand what I am actually drawing and the messages it's passing across.
I have done some couple of drawings but then, he isn't satisfied yet and he insists that I keep drawing my studies while I prepare my canvases for the journey could start any moment.
I'd been told by my art tutor a while ago that I'll be working on 15 paintings before I leave his studio.
Immediately I got the list of the sizes of canvases I'll be working on, I commissioned someone to help me build the stretchers according to the listed sizes.
Stretchers are the wooden parts that hold the canvases which are the primed fabrics.
The picture above shows some of the canvases I stretched perfectly well today.
Stretching canvases are actually not as easy as thy may appear. I knew that today taking a good look at my fingers after stretching 10 canvases successfully. I can always get hurt or injured in the process.
And as you can see in the picture closely above, I first of all placed my stretchers on the fabric (Canvas) to measure out the needed size to cover a surface of the stretcher and then I cut out the fabric to be used.
After cutting out the needed and measured fabric, I loaded my gun stapler with pins and pinned down the fabric first by a length and by a width. After that I began to draw the fabric and pin it down immediately on the other width likewise in the other length. It was more of pulling the fabric till it's tight and firm before pinning it down to the stretcher (wood).
Here's one of my fine and we'll stretched canvases from today's experience. The canvas is ready for PRIMING. We shall talk about the Priming stage and process some other time!
Kindly share your thoughts as comments below, I'll be glad to read and reply them all. Thanks.
Looking forward to see what you paint on them🤲🏽
Sure, you'll definitely see them Boss Lady!
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That's great, Challenging yourself. You can do it.