Does anyone have any tips on stretching large finished oil paintings? I have two finished fairly large 60 x 84 inch oil paintings that I completed while tacked to a wall. Both canvases are not pre stretched. Just to give a brief description on the substrate and how they are painted…they are both on good belgian linen with a lead oil ground without zinc or alkyd made by Rublev. Both paintings are painted fairly thinly without much medium aside from a linseed based gel. I don’t usually start a painting on unstretched canvas but rushed the process a bit in this case before I could make some strainers or purchase some stretchers. I know plenty of artists who do this but don’t care to think of the consequences of restretching so figured I would ask this forum for tips before a proceed with stretching these canvases. I know an artist like Pierre Bonnard loved to paint on unstretched canvas but something tells me he pre stretched first.
Thanks
