Painting canvas is one of the suitable surfaces for creating paintings using different techniques. The painting canvas is a very simple combination of a fabric with a suitable texture and a simple wooden frame, where the desired fabric is fixed on the frame by staples. Painting canvas can be used with many techniques, including painting techniques that can be applied on painting canvas, we can mention oil paint, acrylic paint, gouache, etc.
History of canvas painting
The oldest painting on canvas is a French painting called Mary and the Angels, which dates back to 1410 and is currently kept in the Gemelde Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Wooden surfaces, which were popular painting backgrounds and used by painters for many years, kept their position until 1600 AD in Italy and until 1700 AD in Eastern Europe and were known as the most widely used background for painting. Painting canvases, which became more developed over time, compared to the wooden texture used by painters, had more color acceptability due to the fact that they had only one wooden frame or easel, and they had much less weight. The wooden surfaces used to prepare for sanding needed a lot in order to achieve a completely smooth and even surface, which was a very time-consuming and sensitive process, and also the wood of all types of trees was not suitable for this application.