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Canvas oil painting

Painting is used as mode of representing, documenting and expressing all the varied intent and subjects that are as numerous as there are practitioners of the craft. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational photographic, abstract be loaded with narrative content, symbolism emotion or to be political in nature. Painting is the perception and representation of intensity. Every point in space has different intensity, which can be represented in painting by black and white all the gray shades between. The basic meanings of painting are distinct from ideological meaning such as geometrical figures. Canvas is an extremely heavy duty plain woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required.

It is also popularly used as painting surface, typically stretched, and so on fashion handbags and shoes. The word canvas is derived from the Latin word was popularly used to make canvas. Modern canvas is usually made of cotton. It differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as denim, in being weave rather than twill weave.

There are two types of canvas:- 1. Plain. 2.

Duck. Canvas has become the most common support medium for oil painting, replacing wooden panels. Canvas is usually stretched across a wooden frame called a stretcher, and may be coated with gesso before it is to be used this is to prevent oil paint from coming into direct contact with the canvas fibers, which is eventually cause the canvas to decay. Various alternative and more flexible canvas primers are commercially available. The majority of the canvas prints available in the market today is printed using inkjet technology. All canvas republic art is printed high resolution on superb quality.

One of the most important aspect of the printing is color management, which involves the calibration of the printers, monitors, scanner and software.

oil painting on canvas and canvas painting: arranged by Canvas Republic.



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