Just finished a small painting as shown here. Very simple, just black acrylic paint on unpainted linen deep edged canvas, size 8×8.
The design was formed free hand, in that I didn’t draw out the image first using pencil or source the design from preliminary sketches. I just started painting and let the image form itself. The inspiration for this design are the Jacobean tapestries of the 17th century, the motifs of which were often based around the themes of nature, which were organic and free flowing, usually incorporating, leaves, flowers foliage, and had moved away to a degree from the tight formality and geometry of the Tudor period.
As an example, and I stress my painting was not directly taken from these designs, but inspired only.
Jacobean Design
Jacobean Design
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Wow! It’s beautiful Lorrie! I’ve never seen linen canvas before. What it is like to paint on?
This was specifically unprimed raw linen, hence the colour. Harder to paint on than unprimed cotton canvas as it’s quite rough. It has been treated with something, not sure what as the canvas wrapping was in French. It has a very different texture to cotton canvas. I think some people paint on it ‘raw’ so to speak, and some gesso first. I decided to leave as is, I as I was going for a tapestry effect. I don’t think it’s any more expensive than cotton canvas. I have a couple more I am going to work on, not sure what though. Probably more line art as that style seems to compliment the colour and texture.
This is the site of the ones I bought, they were not very expensive at all: Pebeo