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I have just under a dozen large stretched canvases, 60 x 80cm, going free to anyone who wants them: they were given to me from a deceased artist's stock - but I don't paint to that size, really don't want to, and these are anyway fairly cheap cotton duck; they'd be fine for playing about with, experimenting with, even for serious painting on a not entirely professional surface: Belgian linen they ain't.
I know I live miles away from most of you on POL, but there must be someone who could battle their way through to Niton Undercliff, near Ventnor - if I get no response here, I'll offer them to my nearest arts centre, but I thought I'd try POL first.
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I have just under a dozen large stretched canvases, 60 x 80cm, going free to anyone who wants them: they were given to me from a deceased artist's stock - but I don't paint to that size, really don't want to, and these are anyway fairly cheap cotton duck; they'd be fine for playing about with, experimenting with, even for serious painting on a not entirely professional surface: Belgian linen they ain't. I know I live miles away from most of you on POL, but there must be someone who could battle their way through to Niton Undercliff, near Ventnor - if I get no response here, I'll offer them to my nearest arts centre, but I thought I'd try POL first.Hi Robert. Are they bargain bucket cheap, or cheap professional range?
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Well, I didn't buy them - one of them might be cheap professional range; the others I should say were a bit on the bargain-bucket side; made by Milomax Ltd, 300gsm cotton canvas. All but one of them are stapled to the stretcher, one is tacked, which suggests a rather better construction. Oddly, they describe the stretcher-keys as "hooks" - there's no way in the world such things are hooks - they're superficially OK: tight on the stretchers, cellophane wrapped (apart from one, which I unwrapped, thinking of using it - obviously, an idea I abandoned). They contain a small packet of silicon, and the date on the one I've pulled out to look at is 7/2009.
I haven't Googled Milomax Ltd - might be worth doing.
The stretchers look pretty good - you could always dispense with the cotton canvas and stretch a nice bit of linen over them: I say YOU could, because I'd make a god-awful mess of it if I tried to.