Getting a professional-level framed canvas with stretcher bars typically takes a lot of measuring and a bit of guesswork. It is a very delicate process and you have to have an eye for perfection but I found it to be quite straightforward and completed my first one!

It is now sitting smugly on my studio wall with 5 coats of Liquitex heavy body, light blue permanent acrylic waiting to be transformed.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
— Paul Cezanne

Now what? I shall either attack it with acrylic and oilstick and see what emerges or give it some consideration and produce something on it from sketches or a specific idea. I think I'll go for the preconceived idea over the expressionistic assault!

One's mind, stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Let's see if I can expand beyond 40 x 40cm!