#PAINT CANVAS PICTURES PROFESSIONAL#

Many times professional artists use highlighting to give their reproductions greater value and look more like an original while preserving the look. We will talk more about that in detail below. To get the actual look of a painting and not just the look of daubs of paint I recommend people first apply an effect to the digital image which gives it a painted look. The image highlighting is the process of adding daubs of paint to various portions of the image for the added benefit of actual paint and brush stroke texture. The highlighting option is easier than painting over the entire image since it requires less skill and experience with paints. The second way of painting over an image is usually referred to as highlighting or embellishing. Other artists we know use painting programs and create low detailed simulated painting from either photos or from scratch which they then paint over. Her paintings sell very quick, so ironically she turns around and has those “original” scanned or photographed right away so she can then order prints made later. She then has them printed from which she creates an original work of art. One customer of ours who does historical art takes photos from festivals with re-enactments and composes them together with Adobe Photoshop. You would be surprised at how many professional artists use this method. With the invention of actually printing on canvas, artists can now use photos as their under painting giving them a greater sense of accuracy. Afterwards they paint over the under painting in much greater detail. The purpose is to give the artist a sense of composition and help guide them when they start painting in greater detail. Traditionally, an under painting is created with paint the artist blocks in as non detailed subject matter on the canvas. The under painting method will be the most comprehensive area we will discuss since someone repaints the entire image with paints and is using the original photo printed on canvas for reference. I would probably define it as sort of a mixed media approach. Perhaps we can include a third classification which I will touch on very briefly which would be somewhere between the two. One is using the image printed on canvas as an under painting while the other is the process of highlighting or adding embellishments.

I like to classify painting over canvas prints in two categories. The answer is a simple “yes” with many artists painting directly on their canvas print. Initially we only would get this question on occasion however now it seems we are asked about doing so all the time. Ever since we started our canvas printing services over a decade ago, I have had people ask me if they can print a photo or other digital image then paint over it.

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