Painting is a work of art which the process of making is done by varying the color, with the depth of the color "pigment" in the solvent (or medium) and the gluing gene (glue) for water diluent, the gene of the form of linen oil for oil paint with terpenthin diluent, Buffer) such as paper, canvas, or wall. This is done by a painter; With the depth of color and taste of the painter, this definition is used especially if it is the creator of a painting.
Humans have been painting for 6 times longer than the use of writing. For example the paintings that reside in the caves where human prehistoric lives. The word painting means painting the next picture in this article.
More specifically, this article is about painting on the surface for art reasons.
The oldest paintings are at Chauvet Grotte in France, claimed by some historians from about 32,000 years ago. The painting was carved and painted using red ocher and black pigments and the appearance of horses, rhinos, lions, buffalo, giants, abstract designs and a kind of human figure may be partial. But the earliest evidence of painting creation has been found in two stone shelters at Arnhem Land, in northern Australia. In the lowest layer of material on this site no used ocher pieces are estimated to be 60,000 years old. Archaeologists have also discovered a fragment of stone paintings preserved in limestone stone-shelter in the North Kimberley region of Western Australia, which dates 40 000 years [2]. There are examples of cave paintings around the world-in India, France, Spain, Portugal, China, Australia, etc.
The canvas is a glazed fabric of glue, a canvas fabric made from a thin cloth to a thick and strong cloth. This material is used to make the screen and especially the basic painting.
An artist before painting stretches the canvas on wood spans (spanram). Usually this canvas is made using a mixture of materials such as wall paint, glue, and oil-based thin layer paint for the last layer, this canvas is special for oil paint. For acrylic paint or water-based paint does not need coated oil paint.
To make the canvas itself there are some materials that we need to prepare, which is canvas or spanram frame made of wood, fabric or fabric katon, wood glue (gom arabic, ancur) can also white glue commonly used wall plamir, paint the wall (select the High acrylic content), zinc white (Zn), and white wood paint and its solvents (oil thinner paints)