CHOOSING THE RIGHT CANVAS FOR YOUR PAINTING
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Oil 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 for larger paintings that were portable.
Because they were lighter and could be rolled, as well as being a more stable surface with less warping and cracking than a wooden panel.
Material
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There are two major fibre types used to make canvas: cotton and linen (flax). Some speciality fibres such as hemp and jute are also used for canvas – we do jute.
Weave
In addition to choosing the fibre type you also need to consider the weight and the texture of the weave. Similarly to paper, canvas is measured in grams per square meter (gsm) or ounces per square yard (oz).
If the linen has a heavy weight then one or both of the following is true: it is a thick, tough yarn and/or it is tightly woven.
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The heavier the weight the more tension the canvas fabric can take without tearing, so for very large stretched canvases you might wish to choose a heavier canvas.
Stretched across bars or mounted on a panel.
Depending on their painting style some artists like the bounce of a canvas stretched across bars, others prefer the lack of movement of canvas glued to a panel.
The rigid support can be made of solid wood, plywood, MDF, heavy card, thin stiff plasticised card, or Gatorboard (plastic impregnated foam board).
The canvas can be cut off shear with the edge of the support or it can be wrapped around to the back and glued down.
Sizing and Priming with a Ground
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You can add your own additional coating on top of a ready-made universal-primed canvas. You may wish to:
- Make the surface more white.
- Colour the surface but keep a gesso texture by adding a tinted ground, a mid-tone coloured ground or a black ground.
- Make the surface absorbent enough for watercolour painting by applying a few coats of Watercolour Ground.
- Add an oil ground for the unique texture that provides.
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