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A landscape for woolgathering

Putting together a masterpiece

5/8/2017

 
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Regarding process preparation and materials...
To begin with odd prefers a heavy herring-bone weaved linen which is then coated with a rabbit skin glue or some kind of sizing onto the raw linen. I think he recommended a variety of claessens that was available presized. This is stretched onto what he calls studio stretchers or working stretchers or essentially temporary so that he has the liberty to shuffle around his composition formate. And most often enormous. 

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