canvas art

[jannyneve]

can i use carbon paper to trace a design on to a canvas?if so where can i buy it in large sheets,thanks.

[spudqueen]

Would tracing paper do? If so you can buy greaseproof paper in a large roll from the supermarket and use that.

[snapdarlich]

Carbon paper would work if you put a sheet of it between the canvas you want to transfer onto and the sheet you're copying your pen around...

Greaseproof paper won't work, you'll just copy the original image onto the greaseproof paper...and that's not going to help you at all!

[snapdarlich]

Is this the sort of thing.....Just over two feet by one foot!

http://www.sewessential.co.uk/Category.asp?Cat egoryID=467&NumPerPage=5&page=1

[THECORBYLOON]

Greaseproof paper will work if you rub a pencil on the reverse so that it crosses the outline of what's been drawn. If that's put on the canvas and the outline is gone over again on the original side, the pencil lead on the reverse will transfer to the canvas.

[jannyneve]

thanks for your help everybody.

[heathfield]

What artists would do is to use a tracing paper, (sellotaping some sheets together if necessary), trace out their design, then rub powdered chalk firmly onto the back of the tracing paper. (Using a contrasting colour of chalk to the background of your canvas, naturally).
Carbon paper contains a grease that might bleed through or stain whatever paints you finish the canvas with. The powdered chalk won't - it'll simply mix in and disappear.

[THECORBYLOON]

Some artists make a drawing on paper and prick holes in the outline. The drawing is then put onto another surface and powder rubbed on the drawing, it goes through the holes, an outline remains when the paper is removed and then it's a matter of "join the dots!"