Canvas white pigment and calcium carbonate is rather brittle and susceptible to cracking. As lead-based paint is poisonous, care has to be taken in using it. Various alternative and more flexible canvas primers are commercially available, the most popular being a synthetic latex paint composed of titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, bound with a thermo-plastic emulsion. Many artists have painted onto unprimed canvas, such as Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Noland, Francis Bacon, Helen Frankenthaler, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Color Field painters, Lyrical Abstractionists and others. Staining acrylic paint into the fabric of cotton duck canvas was more benign and less
Perry Milou traffic area of the city where people could see him and his work. Milou takes an original approach while drawing influence from masters – pop stylings of Peter Max and Andy Warhol, skills of Edgar Degas and brushstrokes of Vincent Van Gogh. He’s described his art as a "fine-pop” and “in your face with vibrant colors”, and said “my art peters between commercial and fine art.” Others have coined his style as “pop-impressionist“. In the late 2000’s he developed a technique which he called “rain,” dripping oil paint vertically down the canvas, creating the sensation of looking through a rain