When producing watercolors and Japanese paintings etc., the paper is first stretched on a wooden panel etc. This process utilizes the characteristic of paper whereby it expands when moistened with water and shrinks back to its original size as it dri

The construction of a stretched canvas, which is used primarily in oil painting, is (as the name implies) a canvas that has been stretched and affixed to a wooden frame. Artists can easily stretch canvases themselves in various forms and sizes depend