so I got a canvas that got damaged in the package and has a hole in it I don't know if you can see that right there but it went all the way through and they gave me a new one since this one arrived damaged but it gave me a new one but they didn't want this one back so I was thinking that we could fix it all right here's the canvas we're going to fix I will just take the plastic wrap off can you see the little tear there it's pretty tiny no thicker than my thumbnail and the first thing we're going to do after we take off this wrap is we're going to take a piece of scrap canvas to use as a patch and you want to patch it from the back of the canvas all right there it is now if there's some flaps or if it's spread apart you want to like match up the edges of the terror as close to the original as possible if there's loose threads you want to trim them and maybe take a tweezer if it's really unraveling and just clean it up and you want to allow about an inch of leeway on the edges of your patch just to anchor it down and so this is actually more than enough so I'll probably trim this some more because the Pat the tear isn't very big but that's where it's going to go and I'm gonna put it the gesso side down just so that because that's where the paint is going to be if any paint runs through it'll be on the gesso surface of this canvas all right and then what we're going to do then is glue it down I'm using an acid-free glue stick you could also use yeah any acid-free glue or even gesso or other by permanent binding agent that would be archival would do just something that will make it adhere to the canvas all right so once I glue this down you want to do it on a flat surface you wouldn't want to do this on a carpet where it's not going to create a perfectly flat and smooth like if you push on this if I were doing this on a soft surface then it might push not go on evenly and it might leave a divot on the other side so you want to keep everything is flat and on a flat hard surface so that you can really work the glue in there and get it flat and restore it back to the way it was and if there is any kind of divot on that front one thing you can do I mean it should be ready to paint on what's the glue dries but you can add some gesso just to even out the surface and any loose threads like I said or rough edges so I'm just going to do that and if you need to you can actually sand it down if you've got a little too much and then it'll be ready to paint on thanks for watching