Since I’ve taken to building and stretching my own canvasses, I’ve become reliant on a local provider of finish-quality lumber of the relatively small type. Now, the store is closed like everything else that isn’t considered essential to ones daily survival.

I guess if one is to spend their lives in front of a television, then yeah, wood is non-essential, but for me, who owns no such a thing as a television, different priorities (i.e. essentials) come into play.

Of course, I could order ready-made stretchers online and have them in a week, or even order ready-to-paint canvas and have those, too, but I want to paint today. For me, its not a wait-to-paint time, its a time-to-paint time. So, I’m painting without essentials, which, since I’m painting, means that I actually do have the essentials. I have paints (for now), I have brushes (for now), and I have a big chunka rolled canvas (for now). So, for now, I’m painting.

All that said, and put aside, I will have to consider ordering another 10 meters of canvas before I have to wait-to-paint.

Anyway, watch the video – you’ll dig it! I show you two canvasses I have in progress while I use my new found ways of painting in a world of different priorities and essentials – in a world of no stretchers and working on canvas that would blow like a flag in the wind, if there was indeed, wind in my studio.