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100 % COTTON CANVAS – Made from long-staple cotton with natural texture, higher tinting strength, and excellent touching sense. The cotton surface of the painting canvas is shrink-resistant and stable in every dimension. Without being rinsed by alkaline chemicals, the acid-free cotton canvas boards keep the paints with their natural tones and glossiness.RIGID BOARD SUPPORT - Made with MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) which has been proven to be smoother, harder and with better bend resistance than usual paper boards. And does not curl up even after being applied with large amount of paints. Each piece of painting panel has been strictly inspected to avoid stain, mold, wrap or deformation.TRIPLE PRIMED GESSO – With an 8 Oz. primed canvas, these art canvas panels always keep the painting surface with excellent tinting strength and do not crumble or crack, extending the life of your artwork. This canvas set is suitable for all kinds of painting materials, e.g, oil, acrylic, watercolor, and tempera. It works especially great for oil and acrylic color to keep your paintings bright and glossy.INDIVIDUALLY PACKED – Every other canvas in this canvas value pack is vacuum packed to prevent the canvases from crushing or sticking to each other. The boards are lightweight and easy to store and carry. Great for home projects, classroom art activities, and other decorating projects.SPECIFICATIONS – Canvas size: 11x14 Inch/12 Pack. Cotton surface unprimed weight - 4 oz. & primed weight – 8 oz. Ideal for kids, students, adults, beginners as well as professionals with different painting levels. While offering the same quality surface as stretched canvases, they won't age as well and thus are more affordable alternatives for experiments and practice.
Canvas panels are a good, inexpensive surface to work on. They come pre-primed, and don't take up a lot of space compared to stretched canvas. They come in lots of sizes and you can get them for less than a buck a panel. These are not great panels but for starting out, they're just fine. You can improve them by adding a layer of heavy body gesso. 8x10, 9x12, and 11x14 are good sizes to work with starting out; they're not so big that they take a huge amount of paint to cover, but big enough to give you room to work with.
Bristle brushes are great for oil paint as they really let you push the paint around; you can get some softer brushes later, but a good set of bristles are all you really need to get started. Robert Simmons Signet brushes are very decent brushes for the price; pretty much any 2 of the K,L,M, or N brush packs will get you started.
Don't buy the cheapest oil paint, but there are some decent student paints out there. Gamblin's 1980 line is probably the best, I think. Winsor Newton's Winton line is hit or miss, depending on the color, but is generally okay if that's your only option. I wouldn't go cheaper than that. If you want to go better without breaking the bank, Gamblin and Winsor Newton's normal lines are both good, as is M Graham. A small palette is all you need starting out; titanium white, ivory black, ultramarine blue, hansa yellow, pyrrol red (or Winsor Newton's Winsor red), and burnt umber make a good all-around starter palette that you can do a lot with and are all non-toxic colors. Cadmium yellow and cadmium red are both great colors for a starter palette but have toxicity issues; you can use them both perfectly safely if you use them mindfully, but some people - with children or animals in the house that might get into the paints, for example - understandably prefer to avoid the problem altogether.
The issue of safety, though, brings up the question of your workspace. Depending on how well ventilated it is will determine if you need to work solvent free or not, and that'll effect what other stuff you need to get.