The Stretched Canvas: Claessens Linen

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This video stresses the importance of the quality of surface you paint on.
My Supplier of Claessens Belgian linen, Alan Black from 'Artists' Surfaces' in Glasgow, talks about the quality of their stretched linen. Find out more on their website: www.artistssurfaces.co.uk/
Alan gives us an insight to the quality and sturdiness of the product, while my input is all about the results once you paint on it!
You won't really appreciate the difference it could make till you give it a go.
Claessens canvas is available in many grades of weave from very fine to coarse grain. I like to use the coarse stuff for bigger pieces and slightly finer for smaller.
If your application is thick and vigorous go for the coarse. If its detailed, delicate or thinly applied, the fine grain would suit. Claessens no. 66 is somewhere in between. I use the no. 19 for coarse weave.
If you're working in acrylic, you'll have to go for universal primed. Oil can be applied to both universal and oil primed.
There's also a little feature on their board.
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3 янв 2013

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Комментарии : 15

@DCweldingAndArt 3 года назад

Quality stuff! Nice job mate

@stillpaints 2 месяца назад

I wish online retailers would show an image of a dry-brush paint stroke on the canvas to show how the paint breaks on the surface. How is anyone supposed to know what they're getting?

@radha_2307 6 лет назад

Informative video

@Thadtaylorart 11 лет назад

nice tutorial man!!

@stubostar 11 лет назад

I'm going to visit Artist Surfaces on monday -I live locally. I would like to use the best materials I can afford and agree the Linen looks best. However I wouldn't want to obliterate the texture for the linen with gesso. Dilema: apply gesso or no gesso? Perhaps it would be better just to coat the primed surfaces with acrylic medium? Your thoughts and advice are welcome. Thanks for all your wonderful tutorials - you are spreading the love which is the right thing to do. Keep it up please. :)

@ScottNaismithArtist 11 лет назад

Haha, checked out their channel, funny to hear the sounds I'm using used in something else! Maybe one day I'll have that many subscribers! Thanks for subscribing!

@davidstanierartist 11 лет назад

Hello, First, I would I like to say I love your paintings,they're stunning! I too paint, but I don't use canvas I use wood I prime them and the paint looks good on it i.e. the image am painting. My work requires a lot of glaze and I find painting on wood to be the best way and also saving in not buying canvases. Paint on the other hand makes the difference no matter what you paint on! Old masters used wood, I feel its the best, the advantage of canvas is you can hang with out a frame. Regards,

@lizkolodziej9159 3 года назад

Artists surfaces Ltd in Anniesland industrial estate, Glasgow....fantastic company and very helpful. Find them on internet - “Artreq” on the google search.. brilliant.. I have never had a problem with Allan’s speech....think the problem is probably the microphone and electronics in the production. Can highly recommend!

@canadianmaple09 11 лет назад

Epic Mealtime called. It wants its music back.

@fabrizio483 8 лет назад

Well... a lot of false equivalences and fallacies over here. Michelangelo's painting was a fresco done with plaster. Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa on a wooden panel. Van Gogh painted on burlap. A great artist will show greatness in whatever surface, and a bad one will always blame something else other than himself.

@peterdewint2053 6 лет назад

Yes and Da Vinci thought he might paint on what turned out to be a damp wall. His Last Supper visibly deteriorated during his lifetime and a recent restoration found little left of his original painting.