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Preparing Painting Surfaces

EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF PAINTING SURFACES You can use different supports to paint on to achieve different results. This page is intended as a guide in helping choose the appropriate surface for the medium and instructions on how to proceed. Paper, unprimed, is good for light work, collage, sketching and drawing, using inks and watercolours, gouache, acrylic etc. Cardboard is slightly stronger than paper,...

Tags: techniques, materials, painting, priming

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