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Thank you for appreciating my art. Merry Christmas to all. Inspired by a Doheny State Beach southwest swell. Peace to all.

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Born in Monterey Park, California, I grew up in Duarte and have lived virtually everywhere in Southern California following the glazing trade. After 30 years of glazing - glass work - I retired to do what I dreamed of doing my whole life. Now as an artist hardly selling one piece a month I continue to be from what I can see, the happiest man on the planet. My needs are few. My faith is enormous. The love and understanding that I have of my fellow man has improved greatly since being retired from glazing, having the happiest time of my life. I sit at the beach everyday either meditating, painting, stretching a frame, riding a bike, walking the dog, occasionally writing madness on my computer until I get a lightbulb of inspiration coming into my head and then its bottle, brush, and spatula to the canvas time. I love hooking up with my newly found family of bloggers. Don't like facebook, flying pillows, not enough space for longwinded me. So here I am on my blog being full of hot air as usual.
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Helpful hints in stretching your shirt or use stretched fredrix canvas

Stretching Shirts
To stretch a shirt on a board the best I found are 3/8" foam boards. They warp less and are smooth. Put the board inside the shirt so the paint won't glue the shirt together. Use shirt seams to make the shirt even on the board. Tape the stretched shirt. Using 2"wide clear plastic tape works best - folding over collar first, then sleeves, then the bottom, the sides pulling even so art won't be crooked. Pick the size of picture you want to do. Then make a frame with tape covering the parts of the shirt that will not be painted. You should now have a place on front or back on which you will paint. Be creative - circle, octagon, triangle, etc. This is No Limits Fun. There's no mistakes just learning how to fix them.

Stretching Fredrix Canvas
Use canvas that is worthy of fine art as in scenic paintings. The canvas you pick must be free of little bumps and imperfections because painting on them is bad news. Spatula and brush strokes show up where you would want to have smooth paint. Fredrix is expensive but wll worth it. Paint only on the sealed side. Pick pre-stretched canvas with cross bar set back so when you run your fingers across it, you can't feel the bar. If you can feel the bar, pass on that one. Either the bar is not set back far enough or the canvas is not tight enough. When you paint on those, you will have bar marks on the front where you will see them. I stretch my own so I'm not locked into a standard size for the picture I'm painting. Like, for example, my 66"x18" eagle. You won't find a frame that size at the store making the art piece unique. That way you're not confined to width and height for your art. My beloved father, Rol Allen, had a family picture that was 3 feet long x 8" high that was a herd of cattle as far as the eye can see. Try doing that on canvas not stretched by you. That . would be like trying to paint a yard stick on a 12" x 24" canvas. You could never make it look right