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Canvas artwork

Canvas Artwork is a long running and old school style form of creating paintings on canvas platforms. Modern canvas is usually made of cotton, although historically speaking, it was made from the hemp. It differs from other heavy cotton fabrics, such as denim, in being plain weave rather than twill weave.

Canvas for Canvas Artwork comes in two basic types: plain and duck. The threads in duck canvas are more tightly woven. The term 'duck' refers to the dutch word for cloth, 'doek'. In the United States, canvas is classified in two ways: by weight (ounces per square yard) and by a graded number system. The numbers run in reverse of the weight so a number 10 canvas is lighter than number 4.

Canvas Artwork has become the most common support medium for oil painting, replacing wooden panels. Canvas is typically stretched across a wooden frame called a stretcher, and may be coated with gesso before it is to be used; this is to prevent oil paint from coming into direct contact with the canvas fibers, which will eventually cause the canvas to decay. Modern techniques take advantage of both the canvas texture as well as those of the paint itself.

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