A wood panel is a veneer plywood-based support medium reinforced with squared timber and used in all types of painting, including oil. In pencil sketches, watercolors, nihonga, and other formats that use paper for their support media, stretching damp

A printing block is a wooden board that artists use as a plate material when creating woodblock prints. There are two basic types of printing blocks: a cross-grain type, cut vertically to go with the fiber of the wood, and an end-grain type, cut i

Stretcher frames are the rectangular wooden frames upon which canvases, primarily those used as the surfaces for oil paintings, are stretched. They are also known as canvas frames. The fundamental structure of a stretcher frame is made up of wood