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Built and stretched 7 canvases today. I found a good deal on 1" x 2" wood strips at Lowe's. I cut the wood on 45° corners and used a hand plane on the inner edges to round off the edges so as to not leave a line when I paint. I fixed the corners together with a staple gun. These are raw canvases and will need to go through a 4 step process of priming before I can even begin to paint. Because linseed oil and cotton canvas are both organic materials, they will rot if there's not a barrier between the two. In the old days, they used rabbit skin glue but I use a synthetic material called PCV. It will be two layers of PCV then two layers of acrylic gesso and then a thinned down layer of oil paint in a neutral mid tone color. That first layer is called the imprinatura or "ground" because everything else will grow from there.