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
Jack Glover (artist) Jack Glover (artist) Jack Glover is an American artist living and working in Richmond, Virginia. Jack Glover went to the John Herron Art Institute and began his life-long concentration on woodcuts at Indiana University Bloomington. "The grain of the wood dictates where a line will go, and you just have to follow it,” he said in an interview by Richmond Magazine. His dyslexia, which reverses letters, offered an advantage as wood blocks must be cut in mirror-image for printing. He developed his own woodcut printmaking technique, which is unusual in the large size of the prints. All of the woodblocks