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Posted in FAQ on Aug 10th, 2011
Frequently asked question: I don’t understand Sizing, Priming and Grounds for oil painting. Canvas must be sealed (sized) from oil paint to prevent rotting. You can use rabbit skin glue or acrylic medium to seal the surface. Then you can apply one or more layers of primer or ground. This can be oil primer, acrylic [...]
Posted in FAQ on Aug 6th, 2010
Prints Defined There are two kinds of prints: original prints and reproduction prints. Because these two very different things are both called prints there is a lot of confusion about them. An original print is an artwork that was designed to be a print. A matrix was made by the artist that was used to [...]
Posted in FAQ on Apr 23rd, 2010
FAQ – Putting Wedges in Stretched Canvas or What are those little pieces of wood in a bag for? Here is some good advice from our resident canvas expert Claire who so skilfully makes our bespoke canvases. “If you need to tighten a canvas during painting, take a slip or block of wood, hold to [...]
Posted in FAQ on Apr 22nd, 2010
FAQ – Some people find the measurements of watercolour paper a bit confusing. Here is a little summary that might help. Loose sheets of watercolour paper often come in Imperial sizes while pads and blocks of watercolour paper usually come in European (ISO) A sizes. A sheet of Imperial (also called Full Imperial) is 30×22 [...]