Master quality archival stretched canvas! Performance and color retention! Exclusive OP enhanced oil priming! As an oil painter, it is important to work on oil-primed surfaces. First, oil on oil will provide the best chemical bond for the paint layers that go on afterward ...Master quality archival stretched canvas! Performance and color retention! Exclusive OP enhanced oil priming! As an oil painter, it is important to work on oil-primed surfaces. First, oil on oil will provide the best chemical bond for the paint layers that go on afterward.
Secondly, gessoes are acrylic-based and either repel oil if they have too high of a resin base or absorb the oil too much if they are too matte, making colors sink and look dull and lifeless. Oil priming allows the color to sit cleanly and brightly on the surface, with refraction of the white from below. Centurions affordable oil-primed canvas is a great way to start painting with not only an oil primer but also the luxurious texture and archival tradition of linen! Back-stapled to allow for easy re-keying or re-stretching, Centurion canvases have four paintable edges for frameless or floater frame presentation.
The stretchers are kiln-dried, all-pine bars for strength and durability. Centurion linen is a master-quality, 11oz. weight linen with a lovely medium texture and weave, whose archival nature will last hundreds of years.
Centurion oil-primed linen canvases come in convenient 0.67 inch and 0.87 inch depths for ease of specific framing needs. Centurion oil-primed linen also comes in rolls for custom stretching onto custom sizes or deeper gallery stretchers and is also sold in panels for studies, plein air, or to take up less space for traveling.