if you're a painter out there that's working on an art piece that just isn't going your way and
you're not happy with it don't just throw that art piece away we can actually save that piece
for a future piece by repurposing the canvas and reusing the canvas and in this quick creative tip
i'm going to show you exactly that the best way to reuse your canvas for future artwork let's go
hey what is up all my creative friends real quick my name's wild and i'm here to help you become
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about to give now when it comes to reusing your canvas and repurposing your canvas it's actually
really easy to do it's best if you use oils or open acrylics because those stay wet for longer
periods of time making the prep and repurpose of your canvas a lot easier so when you're
ready to repurpose your canvas because you're not happy with the canvas painting that you're doing
all you need to do is scrape the canvas you can use your palette knife but i actually don't
recommend that one it's a small surface area and it's going to take you a lot of time and two there
is the small possibility that you could actually poke through your canvas material but that's very
unlikely what is more likely is you actually may scrape and indent your canvas with the palette
knife edge which is going to be kind of like a bad result on your canvas because you'll see a small
indentation on the canvas or an imprint what i recommend is using a silicon scraper now you can
buy these at your local art store generally cost somewhere between like five and twelve
dollars or you can get them on amazon for fairly cheap but if you want something that's a super
cheap alternative i recommend checking out this video in the top right corner that shows you an
awesome diy home hack that will show you you may have a scraper in your house that you can use for
free or for very cheap when you're ready to scrape your canvas take your silicone scraper and go up
and down and left and right and get the entire canvas once all the oil or open acrylic is off
you have two choices here we can do a medium wash or a thinner wash a medium wash is more if
you want to paint directly after we're done where you're gonna take a little bit of liquid medium it
could be clear or it can be any type of medium oil out there safflower walnut anything like that dip
your brush in there and wash your canvas so that way it mixes all the colors to a nice even base
now if you want to do a thinner wash all you do is take your brush dip it in a little bit of odorless
thinner or mineral spirits and do the same thing wash the canvas and get all that color to mix
now when you do any one of these two processes you're actually going to tone your canvas rather
than being gray or black or white it's going to be toned to the colors that were predominantly
on your canvas to start for my canvas here as an example it was mostly red and blue which means i'm
going to get a light violet or magenta color on my canvas now when you do a thinner wash i actually
like to step away for a day or two and let the canvas tacky up which is great for traditional
artists out there and here you can decide if you want to keep it kind of raw and traditional
or if you want to go and add liquid medium on top like your liquid clear or liquid white you can do
that for all the wet on wet artists out there like myself hey our canvas is prepped ready to
reuse and tackle another awesome art piece do this at any time you don't feel comfortable with the
art that you're working on and if you're a brand new artist out there this is a great way to reuse
your canvases over and over your first couple of art pieces aren't going to be good so when you're
done and you don't think it's good enough nothing wrong with just taking a picture with your iphone
scraping the canvas and reusing it again for another practice piece so that way you can get
even better reusing your canvas isn't just a good practice it's a good way to save a little bit on
your wallet and budget and in my book that's always a win for any artists out there if you
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