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bif

(24,345 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2020, 09:35 AM Feb 2020

Need some advice from the group [View all]

I'm going to the Bahamas in late April for a week. I want to paint (acrylics) while I'm down there but don[t want to lug canvases with me. What are some other options? I want something that's not too bulky and that I can frame down the road if I want to.

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Need some advice from the group [View all] bif Feb 2020 OP

Bring a couple of sheets of roll canvas with you. Zoonart Feb 2020 #1

Ye olde wood board. Many artists have painted on board. Just gesso them. 58Sunliner Feb 2020 #2

An artist friend swears by them bif Feb 2020 #3

I can see that. Canvas always stretches, and I'm hard on everything. 58Sunliner Feb 2020 #7

There are pads of real artist canvas lunatica Feb 2020 #4

This sounds like a good bet bif Feb 2020 #5

You can go on the site and locate a store near you lunatica Feb 2020 #6

You could use hardboard. femmedem Feb 2020 #8