Browsing Tag canvas
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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 ...
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Oil PaintingJackson’s Aluminium Painting Panels are an exciting new surface for painting, suitable for all media. How do they differ from traditional supports? We’ve invited artist Oliver Reed to ...
