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Hey everyone, today I'm going to show you how to reuse an old canvas painting for a new painting
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So the way you can do that is very easy. So if your painting has some textures on it and some ridges and bumps from the paint
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you're going to want to use a sandblock to smooth everything out so that when you go over with the paint
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you get a nice smooth surface. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my sand block, and I'm just going to sand the top of my canvas
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And you're going to want to go ahead and feel the canvas just to see if you know you get that nice smooth surface if not
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you just go back in and sand. So you can do a nice sweep with your hands or you can use a cloth to just clear the top of your canvas as well
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So once you have that done what you're going to do now is you're going to take jesso
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So jesso is basically a binding agent and it's a really great way for your acrylic to stick onto your canvas
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And the reason why we're going to be using jesso for this part, I don't have to use my titanium white paint for this
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But also I really want to ensure that I get the best binding for my acrylics on the canvas
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And if you want to know the specific type of jesso that I use in this video as well the specific type of brush
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Be sure to check the video that I have in the description below of all the art supplies that I use for every single one of my videos
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I'm just gonna open this up Okay yeah and you see it just it just it looks very similar to a white acrylic paint and what I gonna do is I gonna take the biggest brush that I have so I can go
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ahead and use my flat wash brush if you have a bigger brush you go ahead and do that
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this there's really no real technique when it comes to this so I'm just gonna dip my
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wash brush into the gesso and then what I'm gonna start to do cover the canvas with
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some gesso. So once you got your first layer down, you can actually go ahead and
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add a second layer so you get optimal coverage. If you don't really care about
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some of the previous colors showing up because of your next painting, you can stop at
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this point and you can be done. But if you do want to cover it one more time and really get
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more of a white finish. You're just going to go ahead and make a third layer
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You now have a freshly cleaned canvas that is primed and ready for your next painting
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If you found this video helpful, please be sure to give it a thumbs up and to subscribe to my
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channel so you can see more helpful videos for me in the future. All right, everybody. See you later
