From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
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Canvas, paper, or board?
From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
Canvas, paper, or board?
- So the great thing about acrylics are that they're so flexible they can be painted on practically anything. They can be painted onto board, onto raw canvas, onto canvas that's got gesso on, onto metal, practically anything without any priming, you can just paint it straight on top. When you're first starting, one of the most affordable things you can paint on is canvas board. This is just thin cardboard that has got a slight texture painted onto it. This one's brown because I've painted that with a brown colored ground, but most of the time they come white. This is a raw stretched canvas, and this is also a stretched canvas, but the difference here is that this one was primed in the factory with a white gesso. They've both been stretched around a wooden frame, which is called a stretcher bar. Stretcher bars can vary in depth, and this one here is a little bit shallower. What you'll often find on the back of stretcher bars in this little pack are called wooden keys. You just take…
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