i've yet to paint on a real canvas.

@meatball: You'll be surprised how much paint you need.

Do you do requests? Your art is amazing :o

this is really interesting.

great 3D effect! :o

@CarumEsSarene: On occasion. They really don't come up much though.

@Wellies: Thank you. Wait a minute, were you being sarcastic?

Whats on the other side?

@hanoitwin: That's the question.

Is that your name at the lower right corner of the cavas?

@yosemite sam: Initials and date. I think I should've used a lighter color.

again I could this was going to be yours, you've got a distinctive feel to your pics, very realistic and definitely interesting. It's something I would never evn think of painting and that somehow makes it mean something, kind of like Seinfeld's "show about nothing" concept. So my comment is weird but I mean it all in a good way, I definitely like this!

Aww shizzle...all these years of painting and i never knew what them pieces of wood were for... Dang it!!

So you're not going to show us the other side? :D

You made a painting, of the back side of a painting canvas...

BRILLIANT!! XD

Never painted on an actual cavnas before, I would assume that you can't do watercolor-type art on them, just thick, oily art with a big hairy brush?

@Simeon: Actually, you can use thinner washes of color, especially if you use a sealer afterwards. I used to do alot of that. Once I used paint watery enough to put into a spray bottle, which I used to add a droplet effect over the entire canvas. My mother still has that painting hanging in her livingroom. I use acrylics, but oil painters can also add linseed oil to their paint to create transparent effects.

@Arron: Hm, i'd like to try that, I usually just paint on a simple poster board, but by the time I finnish, its all curved and curled up. But whats the purpose of the bumpy texture, is it supposed to help the color stand out more, if you have any experience with painting acryllic on thick paper vs a canvas, do the results turn out any different?

@Simeon: I don't think that there's any real purpose to the texture of a canvas, although it does produce a specific look. When people started painting on canvas (in the fourteen hundreds) the canvas wasn't streched, and the benefit was portability. Frescoes can't be moved, and even the wooden panels that where very commonly used could be heavy and cumbersome. It seems that today, canvas is more of a traditional material than offering any specific benefit other than minimal wheight. In my teen years I did quite a few paintings on those canvas covered cardboard pieces, and they almost always curved over time. There are also boards made of pressed wood fibers that don't have the same curling issues as cardboard or paper. They usually have a textured side, simmilar to the texture of canvas, and a smooth side, each side can be painted on. If you don't like the texture of canvas, you may consider this option. The texture of canvas may limit your detail level vs. a smooth surface.