

onto plastic and then detach the painted surface and glue it onto canvas. Use a contrasting color ballpoint pen so you can see where you've already drawn and to get a consistent line size. For instance, when I make these folds with acrylic paint people think that. Draw over your drawing with the carbon paper beneath it. If gesso is used in this way the fixative is not necessary.Ī drawing that is going to be TRANSFERRED to a canvas is best done on thin tracing paper because the transfer will be clearer. A pencil's point (if pushed too hard) can make small cracks in the gesso so a thin transparent layer of gesso may need to be applied to re-seal the canvas. This must be sealed with FIXATIVE before the colors go on. The drawing can be made with a PENCIL on the canvas. Vine charcoal is easier to seal with fixative than compressed charcoal. As an activist, artist and visionary, Banksy canvas prints and posters. The charcoal drawing must be isolated from the paint layers with FIXATIVE. Banksy s iconic Love is in the Air painting has been divided into 10,000 NFT s. Because it is paint, it doesn't need to be isolated from subsequent colors.ĬHARCOAL can be used for drawing on the canvas.

When drawing directly on the canvas, PAINT that has been thinned with thinner is the best.

The drawing may be made directly on the canvas or it can be prepared before and transferred to the canvas. A complex drawing is quickly lost when the oil colors go on, so simple shapes and contour lines make the best drawings for oil paintings.
