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THIRD DIMENSION OF A CANVAS PAINTING
Compared to most things we have around us, a painting has almost no thickness at all, so perhaps some form of exaggeration is the best method to make the structure recognizable. Try to think of a painting as a series of layers, like a well-made bed. Let's make the canvas equal to the mattress, the support on which the rest is piled up. Some artists paint directly on the canvas, without doing anything to it to stop the paint from soaking in, but most artists apply a priming coat to seal up the openings between the threads of the material and keep the paint from being absorbed into the fabric. This priming coat could be compared to a mattress protector. (Sometimes artists put a coat of size -- glue -- on the canvas before the priming layer, the way some people button the mattress into a slipcover before putting down the pad). Then comes the paint itself. There are many kinds of paint layers and their use is as varied as that of sheets and blankets and puffs and electric blankets and featherbeds. You may find a thin simple wash of color applied by the artist on top of a primed canvas, or an elaborate underpainting followed by a complicated over-paint, topped off with loaded pigments so thick that the paint sticks way out from the canvas. The preference of artists in the application of paint layers can vary every bit as much as beds made up with a single sheet for a hot summer night to many assorted blankets and quilts for a cold winter one. Varnish is applied on top of the paint film to protect the layers beneath the way a bedspread does. To carry the analogy even further, you can put glass over the painting and a pliofilm protector over your bedspread.
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