By knowing how to combine an art print effectively with canvas and artists’ materials, it is possible to create truly stunning painting reproductions, but the know-how is rarely shared. This ground breaking manual reveals those essential secrets that liberate the reader to reproduce their own favourite paintings with ease. Using proven techniques developed by the author, high-end painting reproductions can be created on canvas, complete with the brush strokes, look and feel of original paintings.
This working manual is ideal for beginners with no prior knowledge as well as artisans who want to develop their skills for creating professional quality reproductions to display in their own homes, for sale on the high street, the internet or through their own website.
Every step of the process is clearly explained with step by step-by-step instructions, how-to illustrations and lots of hints and tips. Chapters are devoted to canvas preparation, image separation, embedding the image into canvas, brushwork, tools and techniques, creating the illusion of age and realism, varnishing, tools and material suppliers, picture care, canvas stretching, picture framing and selling your work, . The book is written and designed for beginners and professionals alike and includes anecdotes from the authors’ adventures into creating and selling their works.
This 8.5in x 11in 140 page illustrated manual is expected to be available end 2025 / beginning 2026.Please let us know if you would like to be among the first to know when this manual is available.