Courses

  • Not Enrolled
    9 Lessons

    Flexible Supports for Painting—Canvas

    Flexible Supports—Stretched Canvas Since the sixteenth century, stretched canvas supports have enjoyed immense popularity. They are also a major cause of cracking in paintings. You…
    $ 70
  • Not Enrolled
    Painting Best Practices Live Webinar
    6 Lessons

    Painting Best Practices Webinar

    Painting Best Practices Webinar shows why paintings fail and recommend best supports, grounds and techniques so you can make technically-sound paintings.

    $ 650.00
  • Free
    2 Lessons

    Painting Failures

    For over a hundred years, most causes of paint failures have been studied: humidity, temperature and paint embrittlement. The symptoms were obvious—cracking, delaminating and paint loss—but the causes were not. This course explores the primary causes of failures in paintings.

  • Not Enrolled
    Wood as a Painting Support
    7 Lessons

    Wood as a Painting Support

    This course will help you to evaluate wood as a support suitable for painting. Evaluating wood for painting begins by exploring wood itself. Lessons focus on the basic anatomical structure of wood, and relevant physical properties with particular attention to atmospheric humidity and resulting dimensional changes. After taking this course you will be able to select the best support for your artwork.

    $ 35.00

Our Mission

The choices that artists make of painting materials and techniques have consequences on the longevity of their work. This website is about those choices and how our present understanding of these materials and techniques from conservation research and practice can help artists make better choices.

Envelope Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube

Get Started

About

Painting Best Practices Logo

An educational service of Natural Pigments

© 2020–2024 Natural Pigments

Report

Harassment or bullying behavior
Contains mature or sensitive content
Contains misleading or false information
Contains abusive or derogatory content
Contains spam, fake content or potential malware

Block Member?

Please confirm you want to block this member.

You will no longer be able to:

  • See blocked member's posts
  • Mention this member in posts
  • Invite this member to groups
  • Message this member
  • Add this member as a connection

Please note: This action will also remove this member from your connections and send a report to the site admin. Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.

Report

You have already reported this .