Your best bet is to get a brush set and start to play with the brush strokes on a practice canvas or surface to get a feel for what sort of brushes and strokes work best for your style. If your style is more impressionistic, where you are laying in larger, more textured layers of paint, you will want to work with larger brushes. If you want to do a photo-realistic painting, you are going to want to purchase brushes that are small and will allow you to make sharp lines and be very detailed in laying in your paint. The basics of what you need to know is that the small the brush, the finer the detail. A Gel Medium thickens the paint, making brush strokes more evident and make it easier to build up texture on a painting.įor my personal taste, I use a pouring Medium and add to the paint when I need to cover a lot of space and need a lot of color, or when I need to do detail work and need the paint to go on thinner. The Liquitex medium I used can be purchased at Amazon.Ĭhoosing the right brushes can feel like a daunting task. Glassy or Matte Mediums will make the paint thinner and more transparent, while changing the finish of the paint to glossy or matte when dry. Make sure that the paints your purchase are not “pouring” paints as those are much thinner and are meant for paint pouring art, not generally for actual painting.Īcrylic Paint medium is a liquid or gel substance that you add to your paint to change the consistency, change the sheen and luminosity and to extend the pigment. You can buy Arteza Acrylics at any art supply store such as Michael’s, on Amazon, or on. Acrylic paints dry to sort of a “plastic” finish very quickly, allowing you to work quicker. I choose to use Arteza Acrylic paints, but really any brand of acrylic paint will work. Supplies You’ll Need for Painting Over Photos on CanvasĪcrylic is an easier medium to learn with, dries faster, and is easier to layer to build texture. A black edge looks more like a “real” painting and is less space you will need to paint. I choose to get my canvases with a black edge rather than a photo wrapped edge. Upload your photo to a Printique Gallery and select the size Canvas Print you’d like to paint. I use photoshop to crop and save larger files for printing, but there are also other programs or apps you can use if Photoshop is not an option. Printique is set up so that images that are too small to print with good quality actually won’t go through the ordering system, so you will need to enlarge your image and save it to the actual size of the canvas you are trying to order.
Whatever image you choose, you are going to need to make sure that it will print in the Printique ordering system. I tend to paint in a very loose impressionistic style, so having a pixelated photo actually helps to promote that style. Therefore, your photo can be a bit out of focus or lack some detail. It’s really about the vibe of the image, the color, and the shapes that you are going to be using as a guide. When thinking about the photograph you want to use as a base for your canvas painting, keep in mind that you will basically be using the image as a kind of base for a paint-by-number concept. Preparing Your Photo for Painting On Canvas
For a bit of Inspiration, check out this video of the painting I did of one of my favorite New York cityscape views: These images still have worth and although they won’t print well as a large photograph, there is still a way to make them into art with a little creative ingenuity.įor years, I have been creating acrylic paintings of my favorite “less-than-perfect” cameraphone images by painting over canvas, and I’m going to share a few secrets so you can too. For example, I have many photos in my phone’s camera roll from my travel adventures all over the world from many older phones. Some of my favorite images are not technically perfect, but they remind me of a time and place that brought me joy. You can choose from our exclusive styles or create your own with our powerful yet easy-to-use tool. Create your own personalized photo calendars and enjoy your favorite moments all year round.
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