How to select a suitable stretched canvas for painting?

First, we need to know what is our purpose of the painting.

If you are a beginner, the economy series are very suitable for you, like 280gsm cotton stretched canvas, and the value pack items. They are cheap to practice.

If you are a student or a studio, 380gsm cotton stretched canvas is suitable for you, the price is cheaper than 100% Linen stretched canvas, the performance is better than the economy series.

If you are a professional painters or an artist, the Premium Stretched Canvas series is suitable for you, like 300gsm 100% Linen stretched canvas.

Anyway, we have many choice of the Canvas Material and Gram weight, it depends on your detailed requests, please feel free to contact us by info@folcai.com

Second, we need to know what texture will you need to paint:

Below you can find different texture has different usage.

1.  PAINTING SKILLS

Fine texture: Suitable for direct painting skill

Medium texture: Suitable for direct painting skill

Coarse texture: Suitable for thick pile painting skill

2.  PAINTING SUBJECT

Fine texture: Suitable for landscape, human figure, portrait, still life of realism

Medium texture: Suitable for landscape, human figure, portrait, still life of realism

and expressionism

Coarse texture: Suitable for landscape, still life, human body,portrait of realism

3.  PAINTING STYLE

Fine texture: Suitable for realism and hyper-realism

Medium texture: Suitable for realism and expressionism

Coarse texture: Suitable for expressionism

For more details, please check the stretched canvas products on our website and send us the email to have a further talk.