gesso

Making your own painting support is easy! We'll show you how to stretch canvas and customize your painting surface. This demonstration will be an overview of canvas weights, stretcher bar systems, sizing and gessos.

During this hour we will continue to build upon our paper collage painting surfaces by adding in objects using more acrylic mediums. If you didn’t make it to the previous 2 demonstrations, we will catch you up to speed quickly and easily during the beginning of this demo. Did you know that Opus now has a house brand of mediums and gessoes?

October is Mixed Media Month at Opus Kelowna—three Sundays of staff demos showing the development of a project from surface preparation to finished work.