Making your own oil painting panels has 5 major advantages
1. Control The texture
You can make them highly textured or highly smooth and every level in between, depending on your preference and the type of painting you want to paint on them.
2. Cost-effectiveness
As you make them yourself, they turn out to be very cheap as compared to readymade ones. This saves you some money and you can paint more!
3. Custom Sizes
You can make them of exact sizes that you want and don't have to be restricted to the standard sizes that market provides.
4. Easy To Dry
As we are using a board as the base, the paintings made on these panels are easy to dry as compared to paintings on lose canvas.
5. Easy To Frame and Ship
Framing these panels is easy and they don't even need a sturdy backing as the board itself has enough strength. You can also ship them unframed without the fear of something poking through it during transit.
In today's video, I show you how I make these panels myself. Some people also call them gesso panels or gesso boards.
Happy Painting!
Mandar
