Tag: canvas prep
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Texture Yumminess
I started working on the canvas drill fabric I primed the other day. It’s around 12×16″, so larger than I have been working of late. I taped it to a board and plotted the basic layout in charcoal. The only reason I did this was to have a rough idea where the face is for…
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Batching Gesso
Most of my time today was spent priming canvases and other substrates as that’s about as much as I could muster while Storm Darragh blew everything around. Gesso on canvas isn’t very photogenic, so when the lull in the storm came, I did some more crow sketching in my A4 sketchbook. I used a brown…