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My large order of heavy-duty stretcher strips arrived from Jerry’s<\/a> on Thursday. Enough stretchers and cross braces for 12 paintings: 6 @ 36″ x 48″; 6 @ 40″ x 50″. I am preparing three at a time–three of one size and then three of the other and so forth. Buying in bulk saves money plus I got them on sale–$275 for the lot.  I have everything necessary to prepare the canvases–GAC 100, acrylic gesso, and oil ground. And the canvas, of course.<\/p>\n

These 12 new canvases along with the 12 larger ones I prepared earlier (the biggest is 5′ x 6′) will keep me busy for awhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My large order of heavy-duty stretcher strips arrived from Jerry’s on Thursday. Enough stretchers and cross braces for 12 paintings: 6 @ 36″ x 48″; 6 @ 40″ x 50″. I am preparing three at a time–three of one size and then three of the other and so forth. Buying in bulk saves money plus I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[208,24],"tags":[240,50,241],"class_list":["post-4808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-materials","category-shop_talk","tag-canvas","tag-painting-material","tag-stretchers","post_format-post-format-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4824,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/knot-riddled-stretcher-strips\/","url_meta":{"origin":4808,"position":0},"title":"Knot-riddled stretcher strips","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Art supplies are absurdly expensive. 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