Artists use plywood as a support for easel paintings to replace traditional canvas or cardboard. Yeow works mainly with acrylic paint on canvas. Images can be printed to a variety of substrates including paper, cloth, or plastic canvas. The threads in duck canvas are more tightly woven. Executed in distemper on linen canvas, it measures . Grommets are typically used to reinforce holes in leather, cloth, shoes, canvas and other fabrics. Waterproof canvas and satin were used for evening bags. Screen printing lends itself well to printing on canvas. The dimensions of the canvas are a golden rectangle. Flint invents a machine which converts sounds into paint on canvas. It was during a period when Banksy experimented with working on canvas and paper portraits. Mendieta also created the female silhouette using nature as both her canvas and her medium. The stage transforms back to a blank, white canvas. Intense light streams from the window on the left side of the canvas. The slow process of transferring the murals onto canvas began in 1874.