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**bestcigsnick** · 11-08-2010, 12:43 AM

Mashallah, Can I use this one for my icon?

Assalam alaikum brother! MashAllah your paintings are beautiful!
Brother pls help me with one question- can you do an oil painting on a wooden plank rather than a canvas? If yes, can you give some tips and if no- what is the other option I can use as I would like to make a huge painting and a canvas of that size would be difficult to find...
JazakAllah khair!
wasalam.

I Have never used oils on a wood surface, but I know brothers who have. Another option is to build your own canvas - Jackson Pollack used canvas' 20 feet by 40' feet - but he built the canvas.

I plan on making two huge paintings, 1 of the 99 names of Allah and another of the 99 names of Rasoolullah

- I want to send them to my Sheikh to hang in the Mian Mir Khnaqa.

...But anyways - you should be able to use oils or acrylics on wood - my suggestion would be to use a small ratio of paint to solvent (2:1, or maybe even 1:1) so that the paint is thicker - take into account that oil tends to drip off treated wood that has lacquer on it or something.

11-08-2010, 12:43 AM	#21
bestcigsnick Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	Mashallah, Can I use this one for my icon? Assalam alaikum brother! MashAllah your paintings are beautiful! Brother pls help me with one question- can you do an oil painting on a wooden plank rather than a canvas? If yes, can you give some tips and if no- what is the other option I can use as I would like to make a huge painting and a canvas of that size would be difficult to find... JazakAllah khair! wasalam. I Have never used oils on a wood surface, but I know brothers who have. Another option is to build your own canvas - Jackson Pollack used canvas' 20 feet by 40' feet - but he built the canvas. I plan on making two huge paintings, 1 of the 99 names of Allah and another of the 99 names of Rasoolullah - I want to send them to my Sheikh to hang in the Mian Mir Khnaqa. ...But anyways - you should be able to use oils or acrylics on wood - my suggestion would be to use a small ratio of paint to solvent (2:1, or maybe even 1:1) so that the paint is thicker - take into account that oil tends to drip off treated wood that has lacquer on it or something.
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