On the morning of 25 March 2012, Gould died from the leukaemia. Ridgewell and Hargreaves announced Gould's death in a short video R.I.P Edd Gould (1988â2012) on 27 March 2012. At the closing screen, Ridgewell stated that Edd may be gone, but his world will keep on spinning.
The frame sits on the edge of the stretched canvas, like it would on a canvas board, and there is no need to protect it with glass. If, for some reason, the canvas stretchers have become warped, you can remove the finished painting and remount it, either on new stretchers or on a rigid support.
1 You can get canvas that hasn't been primed, buy gesso and prepare and stretch it yourself to get custom canvas sizes. 2  Or you can use gesso to cover wood panels or MDF panels, use it on a wall to do an oil painting as a mural, there are many uses for gesso. A stretched canvas the size of the painting you would like to do. 2  It's a good thing to also purchase several small canvas boards for practice and preliminary studies. 3  You can also use canvas paper or canvas that comes in pads, as long as they say they're suited for oil painting and are gessoed.