Browsing Tag canvas
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Studio and GeneralArtists Rene Gonzalez and Stewart Beckett tried our Premium Cotton Stretched Canvas and Cotton Canvas Art Boards for their acrylic and oil painting. Here, they share their thoughts ...
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Acrylic PaintingArtist Andrea Hook makes textural acrylic paintings of the natural world and has tried many surfaces to find which works best with her various techniques. She wrote a ...
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Acrylic PaintingA dent in a stretched canvas is something that happens to most painters at one time or another; a finished painting or an unpainted canvas can be dented ...
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Acrylic PaintingIf you require a particular size or a type of canvas that is not available as a ready-made you may wish to make a custom canvas. Because the ...
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Studio and GeneralCanvas panels are the perfect solution if you like the weave of a canvas but not the ‘bounce’ that you get when canvas is stretched on a stretcher ...
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Acrylic PaintingIf you’ve decided you want to stretch your own canvas, you’ll need to select your materials. The bars you stretch the canvas on are just as important as ...
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Acrylic PaintingOil and acrylic paintings these days are most often created on canvas. Canvas replaced wood panels for painting during the Renaissance because stretching canvas across wooden bars allowed ...
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Acrylic PaintingWhat are those little triangular pieces of wood for? After hearing a few experienced artists say they just threw their wedges away and later hearing them wonder about ...
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Oil PaintingCopper panels have been used as a support for oil painting since the Renaissance. Copper has the useful property of giving the applied paint a luminosity as well ...
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Acrylic PaintingJackson’s Alu-Pro Ready-Made Canvases are extremely convenient. They come sized, primed, and mounted on a lightweight Aluminium frame for stability. But at Jackson’s we also sell a wide ...
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Acrylic PaintingWith over 100 years of experience in crafting the finest quality artists’ canvas, Claessens is recognised worldwide as a leader in the field. From Keith Haring to René ...
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Acrylic PaintingAssembling stretcher bars seems a little mysterious the first time you do it. The bars don’t seem to be able to meet at the corners, because at first ...
