| ABSTRACT : In the late 1960s, in New York City, if one wanted a roll of canvas, you could visit a sail maker in lower Manhattan, where wide expanses of canvas were displayed on huge rolls. Most of that canvas was woven in the United States. In 2024, most art stores have a very limited choice of canvas on display. I order rolls online. A lot of it is woven in India or China, and the surface is treated in different ways which varies the color of the material. Each unique piece of canvas is the primary maker my stain paintings, because every stretched expanse absorbs buckets of water and fluid acrylic in a different way, and also, all the colors, often intermingling, pass through different pieces of canvas, differently. The painting’s final image also depends on the weather and how quickly the paint dries. |