DIY cheap canvas panel alternatives

Cheap, light and a great way to recycle and use the materials you have around. They will help you to go past the fear of messing up a good and expensive canvas panel when trying new techniques. 

Hope this video jumpstart your creativity and help you come up with more ideas to create your own canvas panels or painting surfaces. If you don't have canvas fabric you can use a few layers of a thinner fabric layered over your substrate or a thicker fabric and simply prepare it the same way I did here. 

There are other ways to create nice and inexpensive painting surfaces. Check some of my other posts for more ideas:

Painting surfaces: Art wood panels and how to prepare them for painting

Chipboard art journal