Canvas for Acrylic painting. It is white, can i stain it with tea or coffee B-4 usining acrylics?

Answer 1

It is not wise to stain a canvas at all. A better alternative would be to paint a thin (very watered down) wash of brown acrylic on the canvas - something like Raw Umber would be good.

You can add as many coats of wash as you like until the canvas is the colour you require.

This applies to both oils and acrylics.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Whatever you use to stain it, be aware that acids can eat away at the canvas over time. It would be safer to create an acrylic wash the color of tea or coffee than to use the real stuff...but I would throw coffee at it myself. I doubt whatever I create now will have much more value in 20 years anyway. The education is much more important at this point.

Answer 3

Sure you can, but it might be more effective to find a paint that is the color you want and do a wash with it or other background techniques. And besides, if you are going to do much painting on the canvas, you will cover up the tea/coffee staining you did. It might be more effective to do your painting, and if you want it to look aged or darken, to then stain it with a medium for that.

Answer 4

Using organic stuff like coffee is not a good idea because it will deteriorate in very short time and you paint might start to fall off. As long as this is not your idea and a thing that you want to create, a painting that would have a life of its own, and start to deteriorate until it would be a shell of its original self (like our bodies and other things we come in contact with). Then I would use acrylic paint or gesso and tint it with color and then do an underpainting with it. good luck
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Answer 5

you can, insure it is "Dry" before using, but I can understand why you would want to stain it first!