Vintage Canvas

Easels

The core of the canvas painting process, easels can contain canvases of their corresponding size (normal or large). While a canvas is on the easel, it can be edited with one of the painting tools. Right-clicking with an empty hand retrieves the canvas.

 

Canvases

Canvases are made from linen and sticks, and can be combined into their larger variants. Each size of canvas is available in landscape, portrait, and square variants.

Right-clicking a placed canvas with a board of wood cycles through different frame designs for the canvas.

 

Fresco plaster

Fresco plaster can be applied to chiselled blocks, much like wallpaper. Fresco blocks function like a canvas on top of a block or sculpture, letting you paint directly onto the world.

 

Paints

Pigments can be ground in a quern from various materials, and then combined with plant oils in specialised paint jars to create the mod's default paints.

Early-game pigments can be obtained from common materials like clay, ferns, bone, and woad. Paints made from these pigments are somewhat muted, earthy tones. Late-game mineral resources like malachite can be ground into brighter, richer pigments.

 

Brushes

Available in several sizes, brushes apply whatever paint they have been dipped in onto the easel canvas. Alternatively, while the brush is clean, the brush blends existing colours to create smooth transitions.

Some items can be applied to the canvas directly, functioning like a small paintbrush with a preset colour and opacity. Currently, these include charcoal, chalk, and limestone.

Brushes can be stored in, and retrieved from, empty paint jars.

 

Turpentine

Turpentine is a paint thinner derived from pine resin. While holding a brush, you can right-click a paint jar with turpentine to gradually reduce the opacity of your brush. The more you click, the more translucent your paint strokes will be.

Alternatively, shift + right-clicking the jar will completely clear your current brush, allowing you to use it as a blender.

 

Palettes

The palette is a utility block that lets you mix paints together. While placed in the world, clicking one of the palette's paint slots with a paint jar adds that paint to the slot. As you add more paint portions to the slot, the colour adjusts to be the average off all added portions. To clear a slot of paint, click it with a jar of turpentine.

To quickly switch between paints, hold the palette in your off-hand while painting. You can then use the tool mode selection key (default: F) to instantly swap.