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How to Prepare Canvas, Paper, Panel - Amy Gardner-Dean With Amy Gardner-Dean
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How To Prepare Canvas, Paper, Panel, Etc. For Your Medium Of Choice! Some artists buy low quality canvases or panels and never add additional primer when it screams for it. Then, there are those who buy exceptional quality, pre-primed substrates– only to add additional, low quality primer right over an existing, lovely surface that begs for paint. Why, why… WHY?!?
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- This polymer is one of the most universal used in paint manufacturing. Artists who had used "Rhoplex" (a registered trade name) will find that this GAC most closely reflects the properties to which they were accustomed.
- The GAC 100 is a useful polymer for protecting against Support Induced Discoloration (S.I.D.).
- The most flexible with a moderate level of tack and gloss.
- Useful for diluting and extending colors, especially when film flexibility and integrity are important characteristics.
- Wets pigment surfaces well. The most ideal for artists formulating their own paints.
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Da Vinci Pro Birch Wood Painting Panel 1-5/8" Panel (Box of 4) 12x12"
Each panel measures 12x12" with a 1-5/8" inch depth
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Da Vinci Pro Ultra Smooth Gesso Panels 3/4" Panels (Box of 4) 16x16"
Each panel measures 16x16" with a 3/4" depth
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All-Media Primed Linen Panels 12x12" (Pack of 3), Centurion
Perfect for traveling and pochade boxes, the linen panels are lightweight and take up around 1/4" the depth of a 3/4” canvas, so you can travel with more work surfaces!
- Primed Linen Panels Pack of Three - 12x12"
- Acid-free, archival linen
- 11oz, universally acrylic primed
- Mounted on 3mm MDF wood board
- Medium-textured linen
- Non warping
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The boards are 2.3mm thick with a canvas-like paper surface that accepts all media well. This SoHo Painting Board pack contains 5 x 9x12" inch boards
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GOLDEN Fluid Matte Medium is a liquid
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Golden Absorbent Ground
Absorbent Ground is a fluid acrylic medium that dries to a porous, paper-like surface. Applied over a gessoed canvas, it facilitates raw canvas-like staining and watercolor effects. Lightfast, permanent and flexible. This is a Health Labeled (HL) Product, and not for use by children
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Professional Artist Amy Gardner Dean (Jerry's Resident Artist and Host of Jerry's LIVE)
Raised on both a farm in Missouri and a lake in Michigan, Amy Gardner Dean developed a curiosity and love of the natural world from an early age. The granddaughter of a Missouri landscape painter and a Michigan grandmother (who was the daughter of professional Chicago portrait artists), she was encouraged early on to draw and paint, often attending oil painting classes with her grandmother from t...