How to Make a Goat Skin Canvas | Painting for Preppers with Alastair Blain

When the Western World falls and painters can no longer buy their supplies, we must source it ourselves.
This is where kitschmen become preppers,
this is where boys become men,
and goats become canvas.

Tools:
Small axe
Knife
Chisel
Saw
Sandpaper
A pot

Materials:
Goat skin
Rope
Leather strips
Hazel branches
Copper tacks
Alder cones

00:31 STEP I: Wet scrape
03:39 STEP II: Making holes for stretching
04:34 STEP III: Stretching to dry
07:02 STEP IV: Dry scrape
09:08 STEP V: Harvesting alder cones & making a tannin brew
10:30 STEP VI: The tannin rub
16:18 STEP VII: Harvesting wood for the frame
20:27 STEP VIII: Cutting the hide
22:21 STEP IX: Stretching the hide onto the frame
28:01 IN THE STUDIO: Restretching and sizing?
30:58 Does the colour of the hide last?
32:03 Making egg tempera colours
41:15 How the paint behaves on the canvas

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