Base Information

• Canvas – Typically made of a tightly stretched unbleached cloth or a closely woven fabric surface that is painted directly on.
• Wood – A flat panel made of wood, either a single piece, or a number of pieces joined together.
• Silk – Silk fabric with the application of paints or dyes directly onto the surface. The fabric remains soft and to touch.
• Linen – Linen retains its natural oils, making the fiber itself more flexible and protecting the surface and the paint on it from becoming brittle and cracking.
• Paper – Typically white and comes in a variety of surface finishes, from smooth to rough.
• Hardboard – A heavy type of fiberboard made from mechanical pulp. Hardboard comes in various finishes, thicknesses and types to mimic coarse chipboard, plywood or real wood.
• Canvas board – A board having a textured surface often stamped or molded in imitation of canvas to receive an artist’s painting.
• Glass – Art glass is an item that is made, usually for decoration, but also for purpose, from glass that has been worked into a form that is considered as artistic. Such techniques include stained glass windows, leaded lights, glass that has been placed into a kiln so that it will mold into a shape, glass blowing, sandblasted glass and copper foil work.