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Shape of Canvas for Landscape Painting

A helpful tip to add to your painting knowledge.

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If you want to emphasis the feeling of wide open spaces in a landscape painting, use a landscape-format canvas that is considerably wider than it is tall, easily four or five times wider.
Tip from: Petro.

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