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In this tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you how to prepare your own Cheap canvases for oil painting.

0:00 Intro
2:04 Acrylic Gesso
3:55 Stretching Paper
5:00 Rabbit Skin Glue
6:15 Water Based Polyurethane
8:00 Vellum
10:40 Why I prefer smoother non-absorbent surfaces

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