Quest for Canvas

When on a journey, a quest is a critical part of the experience.

On Sunday, I did a lot of thinking concerning the project I am undertaking in the next few weeks.  I came up with several ideas of paintings and became very excited about one of them.  However, none of the canvases available were big enough to do the idea justice.  I found several very large stretcher bars (and one smaller stretcher bar (yet still larger then my butterfly paintings).  I decided I probably would have a hard time stretching a canvas larger then this smaller stretcher bar, and chose it for my purpose.  Then I just needed a canvas.  This particular quest for a large piece of canvas, and was solved rather easily when my hostess, Demetria, was going to Firenze (Florence) last Monday evening,  gave me a lift and took me to the art store.

Here are the materials:

Here is the stretching of the canvas in action:

Here is the final 31″ x 48″ product ready to embrace the idea (I hope):

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