Don't Feel You're Being Lazy If You Never Stretch Your Own Canvas. Famous Painters Generally Have An Assistant To Do It For Them Or Buy It From A Canvas Supplier. It Does, However, Have The Advantage Of Getting Canvases Exactly The Shape And Size You Desire (and Isn't Tricky If You've Someone To Help). Sticking To Standard, Prestretched Sizes, On T

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Canvas Is Available In An Array Of Sizes And Formats. The Standard Formats Are Called landscape or Portrait (though Of Course You Can Paint Any Subject On Them!). Canvas Can Be Stapled (or Nailed) To The Stretcher Either On The Side Or The Back (a Gallery Wrap Canvas), Or Wedged In Place Without Staples (called A Spline Finish). You Even Get Canvas