I want to make home made Gesso for painting on a wood board. any good recipies?

Question

I allready covered the bord with rabitts glue.

Answer 1

heh heh... you might want to hit your local art supplies store and fork out a couple of dollars for some ready-made.

The ingredients are white lead (highly toxic) or zinc powdered pigment, linseed oil, and powdered gypsum, whiting, or chalk. This mixture takes about 3 weeks to dry, and since it's oil-based, you can't paint acrylics on it. And you'd be crazy to sand the lead mixture (well, it would just make you crazy, then you would die).

If you want a traditional oil-based gesso and don't mind the waiting time, Frederick's makes a good one. It also takes a long time to dry (you can add a siccative - mineral spirits & white lead mixture).

Oh hey - I just yahoo'd up a mixture that uses hide glue instead of linseed oil. http://tallulahs.com/techniques2.html

Myself, I yam lazy... I buy good gesso and seal my boards with Golden GAC 100.

Answer 2

For the love of all things good do not ever use latex or acrylic paint if you are trying to use Renaissance or medieval techniques like egg tempera! Go to http://www.eggtempera.com/ and look for the techniques link. The Cennini link has original renaissance recipes for grounds and gessoes. A good book that I read that is helpful is called "The Art Forger's Handbook." The author was an infamous art forger who was murdered for writing this book!

Also do a search for SCA.org "arts and sciences" links. It is a medieval history organization and many of the people have done research on medieval painting and illumination techniques. I have taken workshops taught by Alessandra Kelley and Randy Asplund, both are really great artists and swell people.

I'm glad that you're interested in learning an ancient technique, panel paintings done in tempera can last thousands of years!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

a cheaper way is to use Sears Weatherbeater outdoor latex flat paint. It's about $16 a gallon