Mad about Canvas!

It's June already, so to celebrate I thought I would tell you all about our excellent value canvases! Perhaps you are lucky enough to have a well heated/air conditioned/well lit art studio to work in, but for most of us it's a case of finding an empty corner somewhere or a dusty garage space, and cramming yourself in there whenever you can in order to make a bit of work! What better way to use the warm weather and long daylight hours of natural light than to make some paintings!

For more information about painting surfaces I found a great and informative page on Winsor & Newton's website:
http://www.winsornewton.com/products.aspx?PageID=121
Canvas is a popular, well tried and tested painting surface, mainly used for Oil or Acrylic paints (which can be either thinned down, straight out of the tube or heavy texured impasto). However, canvas is very versitile, and I have seen canvas with pencil work, stencil, collage, sewn and ripped canvas, and even elephant dung hung on gallery walls!

At Chromos, we have big ambitions... We aim to become the UK's largest canvas supplier and best priced supplier by the end of the year (if we are not already!) We have a HUGE range of ready stretched canvas available in all shapes and sizes, from deep edge or narrow, student to artist quality, triple primed cotton duck or linen... the choice is endless! And if you prefer to make your own stretchers, we also have Cotton Duck 12oz, Calico (a thinner, cheaper canvas) and Linen available by the metre, as well as all the little extras such as canvas pliers etc.... Just click the link to go directly to our online shop:

http://www.chromosart.co.uk/catalog/-c-33.html

Don't forget to send us some pictures of your finished masterpieces... Happy painting!