What is the best canvas for oil painting?
Painting with oil colours is a truly unique artistic experience. Its thick viscosity and slow drying creates artwork with an unmatched level of depth and texture that is harder to achieve with other popular painting mediums. The unique form of Oil Colours also calls for a bit of background on how to make the most of this medium. The most important being the surface it will be applied on. The right choice of canvas can make the process of oil painting a whole lot more productive with smooth application and excellent colour hold. Let’s take a look at some of the most ideal canvas options for oil painting : Stretched and Primed Canvases These ready-to-go canvases are an excellent base for oil colours. Camel Stretched Canvases are hand-stretched to offer the ideal structure and primed evenly to offer the smoothest application. Canvases can be made either of linen or cotton. Linen canvases are extremely smooth and stiff but they are also tougher to stretch or prim...