![]() Yes for 90% of your paintings especially if your just beginning ‘ acrylic gesso‘ will be fine if the raw canvas has been properly sized, thus protecting the canvas from the corrosive nature of oil. Unless you are interested in deep staining effects like Morris Louis who became fascinated with using diluted acrylic paint to stain the raw canvas, rather than apply with a brush.Īcrylic on canvas Can I use acrylic gesso under an oil painting? But in practice painting directly onto a raw canvas is not an enjoyable experience. Why do I need to use a gesso primer for Acrylic painting? Modern acrylic gesso is a combination of calcium carbonate (chalk) with an acrylic polymer medium (binder), a pigment (titanium white) and other chemicals that ensure flexibility, and ensure long archival life. ![]() It creates a surface that is both absorbent (particularly useful for ‘dead’ colouring with oils) and has a ‘tooth’ (texture) that allows paint to grab onto the surface… So what is Acrylic Gesso? Gesso is usually white or off-white and is used after you have sealed the raw canvas with a coat of size (see: the Trouble with Oil) Traditional Oil ‘ glue gesso’ was made with an animal glue binder, usually rabbit-skin glue, chalk, and white pigment, usually Titanium white. ![]() It is made from a combination of paint pigment, chalk and binder. Gesso is the same as a primer, as in ‘pre-primed canvas’. Gesso, pronounced ‘ jesso‘, was traditionally used to prepare or prime a surface so Oil paint would adhere to it. ![]()
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