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Our Sailing Hideaway Blog and YouTube videos will remain active. Join the HideAways as we tell, through blog stories and videos, what life really is like on a small, 23' Com Pac sailboat. The joys, thrills and chills of the sailing life, but also what it takes to maintain a boat, trailer and truck. You are just as likely to learn how not to do something correctly as to do it right. That's important too! New! The Hideaways take to the road! Lately, the Hideaways ran aground on the “healthcare reef”. We can no longer sail. Travel with us as we explore the art of “Seeing” expressed in painting storytelling, and videos with tips on how we roll and places we visit. What works and what doesn't. Good places and bad. Should be interesting!

Friday, April 18, 2025

Holes in Your Canvas? Now What? Sailing HideAway


A while ago I published a wildly unpopular video, “Talking Texture Testing”, where I demonstrated several unconventional texturing products for potential use with oil or acrylic fine art paintings. 

One of those was a type of caulking that unexpectedly turned into a permanent, hard, glue like substance.  It was an artistic failure of the highest kind.

 I learned that the caulking/glue holding factor was excellent. So much so that holes appeared in the stretched canvas during removal attempts.  I resorted to using a razor knife to carve down the mountain peaks. The result was a hill country canvas on the great plains with small lakes scattered about, no doubt caused by glaciers.

My new video “Holes in Your Canvas? Now What?” demonstrates one solution. 

Can you see the damage?  Does it matter to my acrylic painting?