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...ler quotes David Cohen of the New York Sun: "In room after room, this survey offers spare yet dynamic canvases, or cruddy yet evocative sculpture. However nonchalant his painterly marks may seem, ...
Hi all, This year I started painting - acrylics on canvas. I completed my 12th abstract painting and am very happy with it. After it dried, I added another layer of Raw Umber paint onto the back
...? What is the appropriate way to approach them, and what format do I encourage them with; slides, a small canvas, business card with my website address on it, computer prints? Is my stuff even salable...
Hi Folks, I made the mistake of painting something really nice on cheap canvas-board: you know, it's like a thick cardboard wrapped with canvas. Anyhow, the canvas-board is quite flimsy, and has b
...paint works partularly well on solid surfaces, such as masonite, since it doesn't soak in like it does on canvas. But be sure the masonite surface is sanded down first with the coarsest sandpaper you ...
At a talk on painting technique and equipment, the speaker advised strongly that canvas covered boards for oil painting, though sold as primed, should always still be given a few coatings of acrylic p
...ings (oil) on paper (which was first coated with acrylic Gloss Medium Varnish) which I want to mount onto canvas. Any suggestions how this would be done, or can you refer me to a web site that might d...
I need the help on choosing the right canvas and technique for the following mix media project. I'm doing print on canvas, and after that I need to paint with acrylic. I was trying that couple time
...d thinly, then the thickly painted spot (where i covered something up) tends to remove the texture of the canvas, and it can be a bit obvious upon closer inspection. But let's say i wanna keep on pa...
...magnify glass, but (reasonably enough) guards aren't always delighted about patrons coming so near to the canvas. I've seen...
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Hi, We all know that the art market expects a 'real' artist to stretch his/her own canvas. I think this is a bit of a Crock. Why not have artists make their own paints and brushes too? or make t
...worked on more. I value it more for the imaginativeness of the image than its technique. I have another canvas...
...still paints at least 3 hours every day. Only concession to age has been a reduction of her famous square canvases from 6 ft to 5 ft and the use of a stool to sit on instead of standing up to work. ...
so let's say you just stretched a new canvas, let's say it's kinda big. maybe 2 1/2 x 3 feet. what is that 15, 20 dollars worth of canvas? you paint on it for a few days, enough for some early layers
Pizza Roma, 2001' 40' x 30', Oil on canvas, $800
Speaking of which, follow me now to another new thread where I will mention a painter's palette, that of Frederic Remington.
Hi, I had the first canvas that i ever stretched warp on me, especially when i had the tension of canvas on it. I have since re-stretched it on a new one, that has a bracer bar on the back, which
Hi , Does anyone have any advice on the best ways to display oil paintings done on flat canvas panels? can you a fix wood strips to the back of it to keep them flat? What are the most common methods?
Hello all. I have been painting for several years as a hobby. I have had an enquiry from someone wishing to purchase several paintings from me. These paintings are some of my favorites and I don't r
Rats, accidents happen... I make a small 1/4 inch tear in my canvas which I am still in the process of painting. Fortunately, the tear is in an area where I can put a thick coat over and hence get an
...MDF giving you the size required, no tendency to stretch, good texture and archival quality, then WTF use canvas at all?...
...m being an interior decorator, +an antique car salesman, or a horse breeder? How is throwing paint at a canvas any different that being a kindergarten student or an asylum inmate? How is arranging f...
...eate reality of being. He is trying (from my understanding) to actually create the living presence on his canvas rather than make an illusion of reality. The substance of the paint itself becomes a li...
I have been reading up on an artist who produced some work on unprimed canvas. What happens to an unprimed painting? How does it compare with normal paintings?
... which is presently admired by anyone who claims intellectual grace. Painting courses should be called 'Canvas Alteration.' (course requirement-the above three courses) -Here you will learn the late...
try http://www.redcanvas.com for affordable modern art originals.
...dar features the following 11 1/4' x 14' full-color works by Vincent Van Gogh: Self-Portrait 1889 (Oil on canvas), Gauguin's Armchair 1888 (Oil on canvas), Irises 1890 (Oil on canvas), View of Saintes...
...out 'sealing' the framed article, but rather I was addressing the practice of painting the reverse of the canvas with acrylic varnish. What you need to understand is that canvas (speaking of cotton ...
Are they? I've restretched a few canvases, and i noticed the 3/8' staples were significantly harder to remove. Maybe the canvas 'slips' if the staples are too short?>
okay. i don't have a studio where i can cut/set up anything. what's the best way to stretch canvas at home? i never really did it before, but of course i've seen it done. so i have an idea of how to d
...ry first oil sketch exhibition! The following 22 images are quick stream of conscious pieces. Most are on canvas board; some are on prefab stretched canvas. I rarely show my sketches to the public. I ...
...ontrast defects etc. Here a situation may arise when it'd be necessary to correct problems: i.e. to touch canvas here and there with brush & paint. - Is there any need to prepare giclee surface for ...
...i Pictographic to whatever. I'd found a process (no longer available locally) to print in large size on a canvas-like background, stretched and mounted. It gave the work an especially distinct look, n...
...m different DRIERS that you can add to oil paint - (i.e. to mix with paints on pallete BEFORE applying to canvas) - is there ANY OTHER fixative/drying/consolidating agents that you can apply onto fr...
O'connor take note! The Toronto Installation exhibition brings to resolution strenuous doing and undoing, while displaying a density of reference more often encountered in poetry. Measuring approxim
...ntly got around to stealing it back from a friend of mine and scanning it for the web. It's an acrylic on canvas face named 'Vlad'. http://www.nikart.com/newer/57.html I can't remember who Vlad is...
Experimental Work 'Contradiction One' Uses an html web page as the canvas The blue brown side panels take on a grey cast, when seen from the corner of the eye while looking at the commercial .gif anim
sir, throw your soul at the canvas, or whatever you decide to paint on. drawing can wait for when you feel like drawing regards
Prepared canvas available commercially usually has an acrylic foundation that is not completely compatible with oil painting. The old masters used compatible surface preparations. Can somebody suggest
hello! yesterday my boyfriend has given me a canvas..I'm not used to draw on real canvas so.. I notice that on the back side there are some grooves in the wooden support and some plastic objects... an
...pt art. Either way I like to know... What to look for, for example I heard today about artiest useing the canvas 2 times and you could see the other painting under neeth. is that important in collecti...
how to send canvases from europe to california hello, I'm planning on painting in europe for two years and sending my work back home to california and was wondering what the best way to send my pa
Larry - Congratulations on another very fine demo on WetCanvas! I love the spontaneity of sketches and consider them every bit as informative and enjoyable to view as finished pieces (albeit for diffe
...x Art Museum, and looked to see what was there. I noticed that most of the abstract art that was paint on canvas, board, or cardboard was painted between about 1900 and 1920 in the show 'Kandinsky, Mo...
... would bother me but I'd like to be legit anyway. All of what I've found so far is fairly vague. G. * canvas, paints, brushes, special equipment, books and mags, photography expenses, studio class...
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