Check out my post of December 11 and notice how smooth and nice this painting on Tyvek is. I left it hanging while we were on Holiday this early winter. When we got back the acrylic paint had fully dried and matured, and in the process caused considerable wrinkling of the Tyvek. There were a couple options open–I could have stretched it like a canvas on a frame, but it didn’t seem like it would work as it didn’t when I tried stretching a small part of it over a frame. The other was gluing it to a rigid backing, like heavy weight w/c paper or illustration board. I had one piece left of an advertised all-media “Art-Media” board which I used. Used a heavy dose of matte medium to glue it down. Had a very, very difficult time getting some of the puckers out, in spite of multiple brayer passes, and laying heavy flat weights on it. A couple I used a fine needle & syringe and squired some more matte medium in, but still wouldn’t stay down. Guess, I’ll chalk it up to experience, and try doing another pour on a heavier substrate, like Yupo.
Here’s a picture of the back of the painting before I tried gluing it down, showing some of the wrinkles.
Back Of Painting on Tyvek
So, when I do a pour with a heavy paint load, such as undiluted fluid acrylics, I’ll not use Tyvek. It works well with thinner and lighter pours.