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I took these photos last night of a circular canvas i bought from Hobbycraft (i know, i know). I was just lured into it as i hadn't seen them in a hight street store before.
I'm not sure if you can see from the photos (the last photo probably shows it best) but you can see the indent of the edge of the frame on the front side of the canvas - and there is nowhere on the reverse where you could insert keys (i'm not even sure that would help).
Do you think it'll be fine once it's painted on and won't show or do you think i should try and do something about it before I start? The only thing i can think of is to remove the canvas from the frame (or at least one half of it), insert a piece of card between the canvas and the frame, and staple it back on again with a staple gun?
Also, have any of you tackled circular canvases before? Anything in particular I should bear in mind?
Thanks in advance as always!
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Frankly, I should throw the horrible thing away or attach bells to the outside edge and play it like a tambourine. This is an outrageously badly constructed canvas.
There are canvas specialists who make circular canvases - you can Google them; try The Canvas Store as your first point of call, or look at the Jackson's website; and if they're anything like as thin as this one is - even from your photograph you can see the stretcher through it - don't buy. It never, ever pays to buy cheap canvas - and what's the point? You spend good money on paint and brushes, why go and ruin it all by painting on a sub-standard support? There should be a space between the stretcher and the fabric: and packing it out with pieces of card isn't going to help: it will always show through, and as the canvas ages it'll do so even more.
These things are for hobbyists - although even if I only painted as a hobby I'd never touch a thing like this - not for people like you who take what they do seriously and want to get better at it. I've never painted in a round format, so have no advice on any techniques; but don't use this thing! It's an insult to your abilities.
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Personally Lucy, I would steer clear of round canvases, they just don't look right in my opinion and you can't frame them. Hobbycraft is a useful store if you run out of paints or things like that but their canvases are very poor quality generally, thin stretchers which warp as soon as you get them home, I've been there!.
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One of the first canvases I bought years and years ago, was a circular one. I put it up on my top shelf and there it sat until I had a major tidy up of my room recently and it went in the bin because only a few paintings look good in that format. This canvas is definitely not worthy of your efforts so say goodbye to it.