Hey everyone, Cody here and today I just want to answer a quick question. Can you paint on unstretched or rolled canvas and how? Unstretched, unrolled, that is or rolled sorry unstretched or rolled canvas is different than unprime so unstretched or rolled canvas is basically just flat sheets of canvas that you can buy usually by the yard or in lengths of feet, maybe it's inches and other countries I'm not 100% sure. But essentially rolled canvas is just the canvas, like the flat canvas that's on the canvas itself but not on a frame. And yes, you can paint on this. In fact, some artists actually prefer to do their paintings on unstretched canvas because it provides a more uniform or a flatter surface to actually paint on. I'm not sure what that sound is. So yes, you can. Now there's a couple ways you can do it. I've seen some artists attack the canvas up on the wall and then they paint on it that way that we it's very flat and it's just kind of drips maybe if they're trying to do certain designs where the designs kind of drip down. I've actually done this where I've actually tacked it up on the wall and tried painting that way but I prefer because of my abstracts and the methods I use I actually put it on the ground. So I will actually just either tack it like just with tape or something around the edges or I'll weigh it down with things in the corners and I'll actually paint with it on the ground. So that's how I prefer to do it and there's a lot of artists that I've seen that actually paint with the other tacked up on the wall or on the ground and that is actually how they paint. And then from that point once you've painted on that canvas that unrolled or rolled on stretch canvas then you can do one of two things. You can either a just sell it as is where you just sell it as a rolled canvas painting and then the customer actually stretches it themselves or b you can stretch it yourself over a frame. You could basically either buy the stretcher bars and create your own frame and then stretch it over that or you could take it to a shop somewhere like a framing shop and have them stretch it over you. So there's kind of like three ways you can kind of go about it. Now what I will say is I've talked about this in other videos I'll just cover really briefly. It's really not that hard to stretch a painting yourself over a frame. So if you buy the stretcher bars or you have a frame made it's not that hard to actually do it. You just buy canvas pliers kind of do the sides and then the corners which is a lot of videos on that. Now I'm not that great at it. I haven't done it but I'm not that great. So I actually just buy canvas already stretched out. But anyway now the other thing that I've done is I've sold paintings that were just the the unstretched or rolled canvas by itself. I've actually sold paints like that and I have one. Okay, actually drop my phone. Yikes. Okay, so this is an example of a painting that is on canvas. So this is just I bought the canvas flat. You know, I just bought it by you know a few yards. And then I painted the painting. I put the canvas on the ground. I painted the painting and then once it was done and fully dried I rolled it back up and then I will sell it just like this. So basically well I like to sell it that way because it's easier to ship. You can actually just buy a shipping tube. You put some glass on paper around it. Just make sure it's secured in there. You know very snug. Protect hands with some more glass on paper and then you just ship that by that boy out. It's a lot cheaper than shipping out a huge box with a framed painting. So that's kind of an advantage to it. But essentially that's it. Like you can paint on unstretched or rolled canvas. That's how you can do it. You either tack it up, you either put it on the ground. You paint on it, let it dry completely depending on the materials you're using. And then once it's done you can actually roll it back up with the painting facing out. And then you can actually store that way. You can just kind of put some glass on paper out it or put it in a shipping tube and just store it in the shipping tube for later to kind of protect it. So I actually like doing that because it's an easy way to store them. And you don't have all these huge framed paintings taking out space. And then if you sell it and you promise to frame it then you can just frame it once you sell it. That way you can store it small but then sell it as a frame painting if that's how the customer wants it. Hey everyone, Cody here. And yes, I'm interrupting my own video. It's almost like conception, which is probably one of my favorite movies. I mean Christopher Nolan is a great director, producer, whatever he is. Anyway, the reason I'm interrupting my own video is to show you the shipping tube or what you would send it in. You would send these rolled paintings in. And you can store them in so that it's easy to store those paintings as opposed to putting them on a frame and then storing them that way. So if you want to store a rolled painting, again, you would roll it up with the painting on the outside out. And then you would just get one of these bad boys, these shipping containers. I got this one from I think the UPS store. I think it was your FedEx store. I believe it's the UPS store. They're like eight bucks for the shipping tube. And you want to make sure that it's both long enough and thick enough that the painting will fit in there comfortably. So generally what I'll do is I'll buy a painting tube that's 40 inches. So say this one right here. This is four inches wide. So it'll fit a rolled painting up to four inches. That's plenty of space usually once it's rolled to also wrap it in glassine to protect it and to have some cushioning there. And then if you always get a tube that's too big, you could always add a little bit of bubble wrap around it to kind of soften that or to fill that space. But you also want to make sure it's long enough. So if you get a 30s, if you have a 36 inch wide canvas, then a 48 inch will do really well because it's going to give it that space on the edge. Now you could just buy a 36 inch tube. But I don't like that because then sometimes the ends tend to fold. I like to have a little bit of a place. So you want six six inches plus total added to the width of the canvas once it's rolled up so that you have some room. You can always fill that space with glassine or bubble wrap or something like that. So back to the video. So I've actually had success selling paintings just like that. Just flat. I just sell them for less than I would an actual already stretched painting. And then I just ship it out. Very easy. The person then has somebody else that you know that they know frame it for them. And they can kind of worry about that. But I just lower the price so that it kind of gives them a buffer to pay for someone to do that for them. Or maybe they know how to do it themselves. I don't but anyways that's how you can paint on unstretched or rolled canvas as it is possible. And I've actually done it myself with success. So that's pretty much it. Hope you enjoyed this video. If you did let me know if you didn't that's fine. Let me know. And if you're not subscribed please do so. But that's pretty much it. I will see you guys in the next video. Take care. God bless and see you then.