Raymar Belgian Linen Panels
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aymar’s mission and passion is to make the nest quality painting
panels for professional artists. A second-generation family
business, Raymar has been dedicated to the craft of ne art for more
than 21 years. As a company of artists, Raymar knows quality materials
are essential to advance an artist’s work and uses the world’s nest
surfaces to craft their panels. Raymar is proud to introduce a new
surface to their line of archival panels, Art x L21C Belgian Linen.
L21C is a strong, tight weave all-purpose Belgian linen. e linen is
hand primed in a small village in Provence, France, with a single coat of
lead-like oil primer for more surface texture and the traditional qualities
of lead without toxicity. Art x is internationally recognized as the nest
quality linen and L21C is adaptable to virtually any style of painting.
Raymar currently o ers 10 professional-grade canvas, linen and
paper surfaces that are mounted with a conservator’s grade pH neutral
adhesive to MDF, Gatorfoam or aluminum panels for a true archival
painting support.
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In the initial stage I sketched in cerulean blue, the
weakest color on my palette. The surface of L21C
had great tooth and made it possible to work the
painting up with much more paint.The surface texture held the paint beautifully as
I blocked in the mid-value range of colors and began
to build the lights. It gave me the opportunity to
endlessly drag one color atop another.In the fi nal stage the exciting dazzle of light became
visible. The coarser surface grabbed the paint in a
diff erent manner than a smooth linen and allowed
me to be more playful with my paint quality.
I thoroughly enjoyed using this new surface!“ If you are looking for a surface with tooth that will let you endlessly
build paint layers on the surface, this is it! Using a technique that
lends itself to this type of paint quality makes L21C a natural choice.
It really supports the paint. I love it!- Morgan Samuel Price, artist
Morgan Samuel Price, Holy Spirit in Port,
oil on Raymar L21C Artfi x Linen Panel, 12 x 16"