Fredrix - Black Canvas Pads
Black Canvas Pads
Create dramatic contrast paintings on genuine medium-texture canvas
Black canvas reverses your usual approach to value and light. Instead of building up darks, you're working from shadow, adding illumination where it matters most. This mental shift often reveals new compositional possibilities, particularly for subjects with dramatic lighting or rich, saturated palettes.
Fredrix builds these pads from genuine 7-ounce cotton canvas with medium texture, real artist canvas, not paper with canvas texture printed on it. Black acrylic priming creates a matte, absorbent surface that accepts oils, acrylics, pastels, and printmaking ink with equal receptivity. The priming happens in the USA, maintaining consistent quality across every sheet.
Ten sheets per pad means you can experiment freely without precious-material anxiety. Try reverse underpainting techniques, explore metallic or interference colors over black, or use the dark ground for moody atmospheric studies. Woodcut artists particularly value how black canvas eliminates white gaps between printed areas, creating seamless dark backgrounds that enhance carved imagery. The pad format keeps sheets flat and protected while letting you work at the easel or table interchangeably.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
- 7 oz. medium texture artist canvas
- Black acrylic primed for any medium
- 10 sheets per pad
- Excellent for deep color palettes
- Works well with woodcut prints
- Primed in the USA
