| Canvas oil painting and its beauty cannot be ignored. | | | | One of the most popular types of coating includes |
| Do you know what painting is? | | | | gesso and synthetic latex. |
| It is the name of a unique style that is used to apply | | | | How to oil paint on canvas? You will love it... |
| colors on different mediums. | | | | - However, it differs from an artist to artist but |
| The medium used to do painting completely differs | | | | there are many standard steps that almost anyone |
| and depends upon the choice of the artist. | | | | can use and get started painting on canvas. |
| The artists normally used... | | | | Here you go... |
| 1. Paper. 2. Glass. 3. Wood... | | | | 1. First you need to apply the coating on the canvas. |
| - Or canvas, this is what we will talk about today. In | | | | 2. Some artists sketch the outline of the picture while |
| the olden days linen canvas was used to a lot extent. | | | | some directly get started painting with light strokes |
| As it was very expensive only professional high level | | | | of different brushes. |
| artists could afford it. | | | | 3. Painting is mostly done in layers where the layer |
| Then came the cotton fabric canvas, and as it was | | | | below is then painted with turpentine thinned paint. |
| very reasonable and affordable and could get the | | | | After the layer dries up the artist continues the |
| work done it was the choice of the average artist. | | | | painting process. Then the second layer is applied |
| The canvas is placed above the stretcher before the | | | | after the first layer dries up. |
| artist gets started with painting. | | | | There are many modern techniques that are |
| After that it is important to apply some coating on | | | | introduced in recent times but the above process is |
| the canvas to make it stiff and allow the layers of | | | | followed by most of the artists as this process |
| the colors to gather up on it. | | | | works wonderfully. |