Easels should help make the life of the pet portrait artist much easier, by offering a secure support for their canvas, at just the right height and angle. However, there are a number of varieties to choose from, each one designed to meet the particular needs of the artist whether they are in a studio or outdoors.
The most versatile is the sketching easel.
Since the early Renaissance, artists working on portraits in oil (or any other subject for that matter) have always started with a layer of size to seal the raw canvas or board prior to the gesso ground. It’s role is to protect the canvas from the chemicals in the paint that may cause it to decay. Today, if you use an acrylic primer, size is not always necessary, but it’s remains a good way of protecting the canvas and if you make your own gesso is a crucial part of the preparation.
Youngsters usually experiment a lot with hair color changes, body piercing and tattoos, but there comes a time when all these no longer seem that fun. While most transformations are reversibles, tattoos are longer lasting and more difficult to be rid of than body piercing. The effects of body piercing wear off in time, skin and hair grow back, yet tattoos stubbornly resist skin exfoliation.
Whether an artist is specialising in pet portraits, landscapes, or traditional portraits, keeping the colours as pure as possible is an important element to keeping their paintings fresh.
The way in which any colour appears is dependant on the circumstance in which it is seen. The way colours are seen is effected by the colours adjacent to it and on which it is set.
Stretched canvas is a very popular option for pet portrait artists as a support for their paintings. However, there are other supports that can be just as suitable when you don’t have any canvases to hand. Wood has traditionally be used as a support for oils and is one of the earliest forms of support for painting.
