Guide to Buying Canvas Paintings Online

If you've always wondered what canvas paintings are then you're going to find out right now. A canvas painting is basically a painting on canvas. It is a sheet of canvas material stretched over a square wooden frame support and fastened on the reverse with small tacks. The surface of the canvas material is then primed with white acrylic gesso or primer; it is then smoothed down with abrasive paper making it ready for the painting to be created on. I'm sure that some of you may have heard of canvas prints as they are pretty popular with pop art. We're going to take a look at buying quality hand painted original canvas paintings; how to choose the right one for your living or working space. If it's something you like the look of, we'll take a look at what types of canvas paintings are available to buy online.

First off, the types of canvas paintings vary from modern contemporary paintings to abstract paintings to floral and figurative artwork, landscape and seascape paintings etc. If you know what your favourite subject is i.e. landscape paintings or abstract paintings, then this makes the process of looking for the right piece of canvas art a lot easier.

You may look to buy canvas paintings to finish off a newly decorated room. This can either be something to match your existing decor such as soft furnishings or something to add that extra vibrancy and create a relaxing moody atmosphere for you and your guests. Canvas paintings displayed in an office wall space can bring something special to a working environment. It can create a relaxing working atmosphere, like an imaginary escape window for when the tough gets going, a place of Zen.

When buying canvas art online make sure that it’s of the highest quality in materials used to create them with. As most canvas paintings online are purchased direct from the creator or the artist this makes communication and asking questions a lot simpler. At the end of the day if there is nothing that takes your fancy or is not suitable for the room you want to put it in, then you can always request to have a canvas painting customized by the artist. Customizing canvas paintings also known as a commission, opens up a whole new opportunity to really have something created to your requirements from size, colour, theme and style, and you can now also choose to have multiple canvases making up one scene known as triptychs. If you're buying direct from an artist, then make sure that your piece of artwork is signed on the front as well as signed and dated on the reverse. Some artists include a signed certificate of authenticity with their canvas paintings.

Canvas paintings purchased online can be considerably cheaper than purchasing from your high street gallery. Normally buying direct from an artist means you there isn't a massive commission or gallery fee slapped onto the final price of the artwork thus saving you a shed load of cash even with shipping and postage fees added.

Where are canvas paintings displayed?

Well absolutely anywhere you wish. However, if you're placing your canvas art in your living space such as your lounge, most people would display them above their sofa or fireplace. In a bedroom then this would normally be displayed above their bed or the wall space facing the bed. Hallways and dining rooms is simply a matter of preference.

When it comes to choice there is an abundance of styles and colours to choose from out there. There surely is something to suit every taste, every mood, every room colour scheme. All I can say is that you do your research well before parting from your hard earned cash. Once you've successfully picked out the right canvas paintings for your room then you can then think about the rest of your living quarters, good luck in your quest.