How to choose the right fabric texture?
Fine-grained
Fine-grained fabrics are very useful for practicing and sketching. However, very fine fabrics can suffer rips and tears when tensioned on the frames. The fabric ranges about 200 g / m2.
- Painting technique: suitable for direct painting.
- Painting theme: suitable for landscape, human figure, portrait and still life.
- Painting style: suitable for realism and hyper-realism.
Medium grain
The grammage of medium grain fabrics oscillates around 300 g / m2, the fiber is usually smooth, compact, and totally free of many defects, which is why it is ideal for traditional and realistic techniques such as landscapes and portraits, among others.
- Painting technique: suitable for direct painting.
- Painting theme: suitable for landscape, human figure, portrait, still life and expressionism.
- Painting style: suitable for realism and expressionism.
Coarse grain - Coarse -
Thick, stiff and rough fabrics are really difficult to stretch, but once stretched, they will withstand a wide variety of paint coats, making them suitable and ideal for applying generous coats of paints, as well as different types of textures. Burlap especially supports friction and different actions with brushes, spatulas, etc. very well. Coarse-grained fabrics are ideal for creating works of significant dimensions. Its weight can vary between 400 g/m2 or more.
- Painting technique: suitable for volume painting.
- Painting theme: suitable for landscape, still life, human body and portrait.
- Painting style: suitable for expressionism.