I started painting a week later and began with the darkest colour first: a deep black-blue. After the third coat the canvas felt pretty heavy and was very wet. I used a small fan to get the drying process to go faster, I found it to help. Start priming (if you want)! I primed it 3 times with a roller, after each time I stopped and let it dry for approximately half an hour. The canvas comes wrinkled but don’t worry – once it absorbs the paint it’s pretty much going to become a very flat wrinkle-free surface. So you’ve purchased everything, the plastic sheeting is taped to the floor and your raw canvas cloth is spread out.
However, after painting a canvas myself I can guarantee that you can paint a beautiful, good quality canvas for less.
I had a $250 budget for this so I ended up purchasing a lot from the latter.
#PAINTED BACKDROPS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY PROFESSIONAL#
I found this post here but the photographer hired a professional muralist and damn it I just don’t care to buy all of the suggested items on his list! I’m very careful when it comes to purchases and try to to be as frugal as possible. I found Sue Bryce’s blog post which is very good but I wanted to continue researching.
#PAINTED BACKDROPS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY HOW TO#
I scoured the internet for any resources on how to go about doing this. And so enters the do-it-yourself (DIY) attitude and some crossed fingers praying that I’m not crazy, wasting my time, or wasting my clients’ time. In my dreamworld I’d love to own several high quality Oliphant backdrops but in my dreamworld I also have a much higher budget for this and generally much more money in my bank account. The ones for purchase offered at camera shops in my area are sold from $70 – 150 but they remind of those cliche high school photos. I thought about renting but backdrops are easily damageable and I didn’t want to take on that responsibility.