Stretched Canvas & Painting Panels

Stretched Canvas & Painting Panels

Stretched canvasses have pre-primed canvas stretched tightly over a wooden frame.  This is the most popular form of painting surface.

Stiff boards known as canvas boards or panels, which have a layer of canvas bonded to them, are a cheaper substitute to stretched canvas.

We supply artists with 3 of the main canvas options:

Canvas Boards

Canvas Boards are medium grain cotton canvases of the highest quality, made for artists, and are double gesso primed, manually stretched, and acid-free.  Suitable for acrylics and oils.

Stretched Canvas

Stretched Canvas is a canvas that has already been stretched over a timber frame made up of stretcher bars and supports.  Available in a variety of lengths, widths (square and rectangular), and depths (known as thin/slim or deep-edged/box canvas).   All you need to do to get going is remove the plastic packaging and begin painting!

Wooden Painting Panels

The Wooden Painting Panel makes me think of Renaissance painting techniques! The panels can either be left as-is and painted in the original raw form, or treated with gesso before painting.

Other products are available: