Acrylic & Oil Painting Tips : How to Prepare a Canvas For Oil Painting

Preparing a canvas for oil painting requires creating the desired surface texture with gesso and sand paper. Prepare a canvas for oil painting with tips from a professional artist in this free video on painting.

Expert: Carlos A. Navarro
Contact: www.carlosanavarro.com
Bio: Carlos A. Navarro is a successful Cuban painter in Miami, Florida who began his artist development at a young age.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

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• painting
• oil painting
• acrylic painting
• acrylic paint
• oil paint
• canvas

[MalkiaMawnstuh]

ROFL THATS MY TEACHER FROM LAST YEAR :O

[amarie1007]

@ItsASuicideMachine from what i know varnish can definitely help to keep your paintings longer 

[Yusrararts]

great vid..

[Chenet7]

ltsASuicideMachine you need to get the work in a dust/air seal frame

[ItsASuicideMachine]

hey i have a slightly unrelated question. I did an oil painting onto paper, expecting it to be just a half-assed portrait, but it ended up being the best thing i've ever done. So anyway, i didn't bother preparing the paper, and i just wondered if there's

any way i could stop the painting deteriorating over time? If I coat it in varnish, will that help?

[DeviantMatch]

It depends on the desired effect.

Painting dry creates a thicker paint, or a toned down paint (like when there's almost no paint on your brush anymore)

If you water your brush, you create a smoother texture, but also it becomes slightly transparent. You can make it completly transparent by mixing your paints with a transparent gel, this is good for painting like Hercules (I think 15th century painter)

So you can choose

[ugartist]

No not "all" the canvas are have gesso some do some don't

[AerdnaZaze]

yeah all the canvas from the stores are ready to paint don't worry

[AerdnaZaze]

the Gesso you can boght it on your art suplies or you can make it with white glue, or natural animal glue and white zinc powder mix them very well and that's it

[AerdnaZaze]

well... you can do both , If you put liquid on your brush the painting will slide more easily but be carefull don't use a lot of liquid only the tip of the brush and then the painting, the other way it's to directly put painting on your brush and start painting

I hope I could help you