Materials and Tools

This lesson focuses on optimizing your working surface by re-coating an existing primed canvas with a lead ground, custom designing it to suit your needs. Contained in this lesson is a detailed procedure describing the process of re-coating primed canvas with white lead. This is a great way to fix canvas that fails to meet your standards and improve upon it by creating your own custom, ideal painting surface! Re-covering a canvas with lead will fix absorbency issues, uniformity within the working surface, and also allow for full control over the surface texture. Safety concerns and precautions of working with lead are also discussed.