Patent ID: 7033658

Claim:
An artist's canvas formed of a flexible substrate having opposed sides and selected from a group consisting of burlap, cotton canvas, linen canvas and a woven fabric, coated with a layer of one of gypsum wallboard finish composition and joint covering composition at a thickness in a range of about 0.063 inches to 0.25 inches to form a finish receiving surface; said substrate being secured to a perimeter frame and including one or more aging cracks and crevices in said coated layer formed by physical manipulation of said substrate when said layer has hardened to a range of 75% to 100% of complete hardness of said composition; and a finish on said receiving surface including a primer coating of one of acrylic, oil or alkyd primer paint underlying a coating of one of eggshell, latex, and satin semi-gloss enamel and an overlying layer of one of oil and latex stain visually highlighting said cracks and crevices.