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Has anyone ever made up canvases for oil paintings. I need to wip together some for my daughters art classes. The frame part is easy, but what base paint do you need to add. I have doped canoe canvas but it is not really the same as it does not need to be archival quality.
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Thanks Justus. I think I will use the acrylic varnish I have in house. I am still not sure what the gesso is or where I can find it here.
Ken The premade ones here are near $20 dollars each at Wallmart only. I can make 4 for $5 of better quality. As she has only completed one painting todate, I think it is better that she just paints rather than worrying about the costs.
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Well I finished the first frame. I used scrap 2" x 2" fir I had around the place. Naturally the frame is a little thicker than normal, but I figured if she is learning I can learn also. It might take a few attemps to get it perfect. The first attempt is better than the Wally World variety anyway. Maybe I should post a picture of her first canvas?
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I posted my daughter first picture in my pictures, number 18. Talent? She was 13.
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She was using a photo as a model and free handed it.
It has been a while since I have updated my pictures. I tried to highly compress them to get it down to 30 kb. oops!
I too fundimentals of design in 4th year of college. After no art through high school it was a struggle but need the fine arts credit and art appreciation was full. I would work diligently on the assigments for a C or C+ and was ready to pay for the art freshmans work.
My latest project is to build her an easel out of the lower half of a pine door I cut for a eave closet access door. I think it takes some talent to complete without plans considering the odd angles on the legs etc. I am sure it would be shunned by the artsies as they would rather spend a couple of hundred dollars, but it works and looks ok.
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dfkrug; Yes BlueMaxx I made 2 structures. I am debating whether I will sell the scaffolds now.
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