TerraSkin is a paper made from Lime Stone (Getting Stoned - sorry). It sells in large sheets like watercolour paper. The surface is slick and grabs both oil and acrylic with an unusual feel - hard to describe. I cut, taped onto boards and began to play - mostly plein air - in oil and acrylics. I was soon experimenting with gesso on the paper to give it more tooth. Then started working with black gesso on it and loved it for small pieces. I have been using it for quick studies (life drawing session) and small still life. For plein air it packs so easily it is joy to work with. It glues as nicely as canvas or linen onto board with PVA glue (Elmers White Glue).
I dropped into Island Blue yesterday ( Victoria) to get more and was told it was not selling. This product definitively has a place and so lack of sales has to be lack of recognition of its value in the art community.
I wonder how it would take to watercolours.
Take a look at their web page www.terraskin.com
Images are oil ( my grand children's cat) on black gesso and two acrylic plein air sketches on plain Terra Skin - all 6x8
love the looseness of these 3 paintings. Just heard about terraskin from another artist - will have to try it. I am looking for a low-weight surface to paint acrylic on (other than my preferred stretched canvas) when I go to France in June for a plein air course. Maybe this would work?
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