Polyester or linen, what is the most archival surface to paint on?

[Allan Rahbek]

Richard,
I don't exclude any type of supports and think that the choice should depend of the size of the painting. Small ones could be glued to MDF or Masonite, bigger could be on cradled Birch Plywood and the large portraits could be on Honeycomb Aluminum.
I don't think that the gluing would cause a problem either, I would use a water based glue meant for flooring such as Linoleum.
Would that function?

[Linda Brandon]

Moderator's Note: please keep this thread on topic (archival surfaces and substrates) and discuss glues on a glue thread so that artists (like me) with perennial glue questions wil know where to look in the future.

[Richard Bingham]

Linda, I removed the "sticky" comment. Is there a thread or section on glues? (discussions of painting supports often wander into digressions on glues as sizing, and methods of adhering fabric to panel)

One of the plusses of this site is being able to find things!

[Steven Sweeney]

All things old are made new . . .

Trolling for something else, I discovered this brief thread on topic, adding a couple of other voices.

http://forum.portraitartist.com/showthread.php?t=6347

[Steven Sweeney]

Richard,

Here are some folks talking about adhesive applications, from about 5 years ago . . .

http://forum.portraitartist.com/showthread.php?t=1769

[Richard Bingham]

Thanks much, Steven!

(I realize that similar questions and discussions seem to "recycle" over time . . . that probably becomes boring for those who have already been there, done that and bought the tee-shirt. In this case, it's well to revisit the older threads, because of the reference to Studio Materials. Alas, Mike Ozog threw in the towel on that enterprise a couple of years ago.)

[Allan Rahbek]

Sharon,
20 years ago I got a roll of unprimed polyester fabric that I primed and painted on, The paintings are perfectly straight without any bulging or sagging. I did not like the structure of it because it was like felt and rather course, but it hold the paint nicely. I think that it was primed with Acrylic gesso.