Prepare A Canvas & Make a Frame with Leigh Walker (14/15 Sep)

Date	September 14/15 2024
Time	10am-4pm 6 hours per day/12 hours in total
Location	CAW, Studio B
Address	21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith ACT
Class size	8
Price	$391.00 (including GST): CAW Member \| ASOC Coupon $489.00 (including GST): Non-Member

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Have you ever wondered how professional artists build their own canvases and frame them? Wonder no longer!
In this two-day workshop, artist Leigh D Walker will take you, step by-step, through the process of building stretchers, stretching canvas and preparing canvas for oil and acrylic paint. You will also be instructed on how to create a floating frame.
This is a practical workshop where you will build your own canvas and frame it, learning skills and a little bit of art history along the way.
You will go home Sunday with a high quality, stretched linen canvas, snuggly fitting a sturdy frame (those suckers a expensive to buy!)
The skills you learn can be used time and time again – say goodbye to buying expensive pre-made canvases!

Materials list

● Rubber Mallet (available from $7 at Bunnings),
● Hammer
● Power drill and drill bits (Please bring only if you already own one)
● Pure Beeswax (a beeswax candle is fine)
● Fine sandpaper
● Medium sandpaper
● Staple gun
● Staples
● Matisse Acrylic Matte Medium (MM5)
● Acrylic Gesso (Matisse is my favorite, but any acrylic gesso will do)
● Mitre Square (available from $16.50 at Bunnings)
● Pliers (any kind you have in a toolbox will do)
● Dinner/butter knife (from cutlery drawer)
● Mitre box/jig and saw (I bought mine as a set at Bunnings for $18.50)
● PVA wood glue – a small bottle will do (make sure it has an application nozzle)
● Measuring tape
● Pencil
● Eraser
● Small sketchbook
● Wet wipes
● Masking tape (preferably blue)
ALL OTHER MATERIALS FOR MAKING A STRETCHER & FRAME ARE PROVIDED INCLUDING:
● wood for stretcher (Victorian Ash) & frame (Tasmanian Oak)
● cotton duck canvas
● assorted screws, nails & D-rings

About the tutor

Leigh D Walker is an artist, living and working in the Canberra region. She specialises in drawing and painting.
Born in South-West Scotland, she studied for her Honours Degree (Drawing & Painting) and her Master of Fine Arts at Edinburgh College of Art/Edinburgh University.
Leigh combines her art practice with exhibiting, teaching, community art and commission work.
The exquisite surfaces of Leigh’s paintings and the intricate beauty of her drawings reflect her ongoing exploration of the craft of drawing and painting. She is fascinated by the building up of layers and the process and alchemy of creating art. Her drawings and paintings are constantly changing, each incarnation creating an imprint of what has gone before.
Being the recipient of numerous awards, Leigh has exhibited widely in the UK and Australia. She has shown in venues such as The Royal Scottish Academy, The National Portrait Gallery, London and The Scottish Gallery. Her work is held in public and private collections throughout the UK, such as The Scottish Equitable Collection and The South Ayrshire Council Collection.
Her paintings have featured in The BP Portrait Award Calendar, The Financial Times (UK), The Mail on Sunday and Livewire Magazine.
Currently living and working in Canberra, Leigh runs regular art classes throughout the region.