Daniel Wilson and Amber Tyldesley, Studio Wildlife
Open the box. Start painting.
Two award-winning wildlife artists. Oils, acrylics and charcoal. One canvas, and no morning lost to preparing it.
The part of painting nobody misses
Every canvas you have ever bought asked something of you before you could put paint on it. This one does not.
A stretched canvas, before ACF
An ACF canvas
Or, if you work the traditional way: linseed oil, turps, a colour wash, then paint. The wash is a choice you are making, not a repair you are doing.
Straight to work
The work
Oils
Daniel and Amber, on Box Canvas, Stretch Canvas and Box Board Canvas
Acrylics
Daniel and Amber, on Box Canvas, Stretch Canvas and Box Board Canvas
Charcoal
Daniel, on Box Board Canvas and the Deep Edge Oak Floating Frame
Most artists have never considered charcoal on canvas, because most canvas moves under the hand. The Box Board Canvas does not. The PET surface is stretched over a 3mm HDF backing, so there is no drum, no give, and no flex to fight.
What is in the studio
Five products, used for different jobs. This is the order they reach for them.
Framed, and ready to hang
Both floating frame sets arrive assembled in white oak veneer. The canvas lifts out. Nothing to build, nothing to order separately, nothing to re-stretch before a collector sees it.
What this canvas is, and what it is not
Worth being straight about, because it is not the right surface for everyone.
It is
- Primed, stretched and ready to paint out of the box
- 100% PET, woven and coated to ACF's own specification
- Built on an engineered strainer that holds its tension
- Available rigid, when you need a surface that does not move
It is not
- Cotton or linen. It is a different surface and it behaves differently
- Sold as loose material, offcuts or swatches. Only as finished canvas
- Keyed. There are no corner wedges, because it does not need them
- ADD ONE HONEST LIMITATION HERE, IN DANIEL OR AMBER'S WORDS
Daniel and Amber
Studio Wildlife
Award-winning wildlife artists working in oils, acrylics and charcoal, with work collected internationally. They run Studio Wildlife, where they teach other artists through a YouTube channel, a Patreon and painting retreats.
Where to start
Three ways in, depending on what you are painting.
