Print or painted wall painting, which to choose?

There are quite a few people who ask me if I offer panel paintings. In this regard, if you are looking for a panel painting, there is an option for it to be made with my original artwork.

Certainly, prints or wall panels are a more economical way to decorate your home. Their price is quite low, which is why furniture stores usually offer decorative panels - prints. The difference, however, is that they will not be hand-painted and textured; instead, the painting will be printed on canvas like a photograph. This photograph will be printed thousands of times, which lowers its artistic value. Moreover, its surface will be flat, like a sheet of paper.

What is the difference between a wall Print and a hand-painted painting?

For those of you who do not know the difference between painted wall paintings and print paintings, I will explain it in more detail now. Oil paintings that I paint are hand-painted on canvas, which is also known as linen. They are made of textile - dense cotton canvas, although there are also canvases made of linen. I mainly use ready-made cotton canvases. The textile texture is precisely stretched over a frame made of natural, dry wood. This gives the canvas a thickness of several centimeters. Then, the base of the painting - a primer, is applied on which the painting is done directly. On top of the primer, I apply oil paints.

Oil paints have a dense structure, and when applied to the canvas, they create considerable volume and texture. When painted in a pastose manner, like my wall paintings, the texture of the painting extends out from the canvas by 0.5 to 1 cm in places.

Recently, it has become fashionable for wall prints to imitate texture, as people have begun to understand the drawbacks of flat images, but the resulting texturing does not match the image and is chaotic in places. It does not look like it has come from the artist's brush. It appears strange and unaesthetic. Some prints are offered with manual texture – a person paints in a few places on the print with transparent paint to create the illusion of a painted painting.

Types of wall panels - printed painting.

• One option is when a print is made on a flat surface (foam PVC), a porous plastic that is white in color, which we colloquially call styrofoam. A sticker with the printed painting is glued onto this surface. This is the cheapest option for a decorative panel, but for me, it remains an unaesthetic and artificial execution. For this reason, I do not offer it.
• Print on canvas - panel painting, the closest type of painting to art, made from canvas (cotton cloth). In practice, a similar or the same canvas is used as that for painting. Definitely, panel paintings look more beautiful than prints on PVC. However, in this option, the image passes into the thickness of the painting and a finished look is achieved. You can optionally add an external decorative frame. I could make this type of panel painting within a few days and send it to you, of course, if you're interested.

Installation is easy. The paintings have standard hangers on the back and can be placed directly on the wall on a small nail or screw. Alternatively, the painting can be hung directly on the wooden frame on the nail.

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