Setting Up Watercolor Paper for Painting with Acrylics
Painting with acrylics on watercolor paper needs that you simply secure the paper so that it doesn't roll up or otherwise become distorted in reaction to absorbing the paint. A single option is to paint on watercolor blocks, which are create to maintain a stack of paper stable with adhesive all around the edges. Then, once the best oil paintings dries, you pull it from the block plus the next a single is ready to be painted.
I have used watercolor blocks in the past, but choose making use of sheets, which I tape to pegboard prior to I start painting. Very first I draw the lines of the borders. In this circumstance I took 22" x 30" sheets and blocked out an 18" x 24" area to paint in.
Next, I painted while using acrylics without having worrying about heading above the edges with the tape.
When the painting was dry, I pulled off the tape, leaving clean edges all close to.
One particular advantage of this strategy is the fact that the painting ends up having a nice white border. I constantly set some of these paintings out on the table at Art Trail open studio weekends, and often sell a few like this unframed. Naturally, all paintings on paper have to be framed behind glass or acrylic (plastic) before hanging.
Here's a better look at with the last painting.
I have used watercolor blocks in the past, but choose making use of sheets, which I tape to pegboard prior to I start painting. Very first I draw the lines of the borders. In this circumstance I took 22" x 30" sheets and blocked out an 18" x 24" area to paint in.
Next, I painted while using acrylics without having worrying about heading above the edges with the tape.
When the painting was dry, I pulled off the tape, leaving clean edges all close to.
One particular advantage of this strategy is the fact that the painting ends up having a nice white border. I constantly set some of these paintings out on the table at Art Trail open studio weekends, and often sell a few like this unframed. Naturally, all paintings on paper have to be framed behind glass or acrylic (plastic) before hanging.
Here's a better look at with the last paintings.
giaquinto - 3. Aug, 08:26
