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Brand new, on DVD! Thomas Baker's lively tutorial video on canvas stretching! Not (always) boring! Paintings occasionally come to life and anatomical skulls speak (and eat candy bars) as Thomas Baker wittily imparts to you the age-old skills of canvas stretching! Nearly two hours (1 hr. 58 min.) of detailed demonstrations covering all aspects of making your own high quality canvases for oil or acrylic painting. Thomas Baker is a professional oil painter with many years of experience in stretching canvases, and everything he's learned on the subject is in this video. You can see excerpts of this video on YouTube, for example, the introduction, here: <http://tinyurl.com/6e698m>.This video shows how you, the artist, can quickly make your own traditional-style canvases for oil or acrylic painting, saving you time and money, while at the same time providing superior-quality canvases in any size you require. You can use staples on the canvas for speed, or slow down a bit and use tacks for an authentic"Old Masters" look to the job (copper or brass coated tacks make an exquisite museum-like canvas).Fast, free delivery (within the continental U.S. only) by Priority Mail. The DVD is shipped in its own jewel case inside a padded envelope. Detailed description of video contents below. NTSC format only (will not play on standard European PAL video equipment). If you are outside the U.S. and would like to purchase this video, please make sure you have the equipment to play it, and contact us to determine a shipping fee to your location.This entertaining, educational, nearly two-hour-long DVD covers the following topics: Introduction (20 min): Baker discusses the history of classical realist painting, and shows examples of important paintings from the past, beginning with the 20,000-year-old cave paintings of Europe, the art of ancient classical civilizations, the Renaissance and classical realist art as practiced today, including some of his own paintings, all leading into a discussion of the history of canvas as a support for painting.Part One (29.5 min): Tools for Canvas Stretching. The few necessary tools, as well as optional but useful ones, are listed, shown, and then demonstrated. Different tool choices are discussed, such as tacks vs. staples, the many kinds of staple guns (pros and cons of each), the various kinds of canvas pliers, as well as how to make your own canvas pliers with a locking feature unavailable on any commercially sold pliers. Tools and techniques for removing tacks and staples are shown. Safety with the canvas tools is stressed, and techniques for the safe use of the tools shown.Part Two (7 min): A comparison of canvas types (cotton and linen) for painting, their differences, advantages, and disadvantages, and how to choose the best type for your type of painting. The archival (long-lasting) qualities of each type are discussed.Part Three (23.5 min.) How to build the wooden frames over which canvas is stretched. Where to get the wooden frame parts, and how to assemble and square up the frame and otherwise prepare it for the canvas. How you can use wooden wedges (keys) in the corners of the frame to tighten slack canvas, and the inadvisability of doing it this way, as well as the problems encountered with trying to shrink out wrinkles in canvas with water spray.Part Four (39 min.) Stretching and attaching the canvas to the frame. How to cut the canvas from a roll, followed by a lively animated diagram (with musical accompaniment) of the stretching and stapling (or tacking) sequence, and finally, the heart of the video, a complete staple-by-staple demonstration of how to stretch and attach the canvas to the frame, getting it drum-tight, including corner folding and fastening down loose canvas on the back of the frame.Occasional Tom-foolery livens up the demonstrations when paintings come to life, screaming fiends fly out of Pandora's box, and an anatomical skull in the studio comments caustically on the proceedings and eats candy (you have to be there).All told, an original and thoroughly enjoyable way to learn a skill that is valuable to any painter!You are also invited to visit Thomas Baker's oil painting website at www.thomasbakerpaintings.com
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