with water-based oils and would like a product I could use to wet the canvas, such as gesso, which oil painters use, but it would have to be a product which did not contain spirits. Can anyone enlighten me. ALSO - any tips on painting wet on wet with acrylics?
2007-03-04 06:57:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Can gesso be diluted (brushes washed etc) with WATER?
2007-03-04 07:09:33 · update #1
Hi-quality gesso also contains marble dust, which helps give a tooth to your surface. For acrylic wet-on-wet, try using slow=dry acrylic medium, or another product called 'Flow Enhancer'. Both will allow the acrylic to stay way much longer than it normally does.
2007-03-04 08:47:40 · answer #1 · answered by bob_studioz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gesso is not to 'wet' a canvas...
Gesso is used on paper to make a canvass like work area that will last like canvas.....The way gesso is used is to take a piece of 70 pound paper and wet it and use butcher tape and tape it to a board, (Mason wood about 1/4 in thick) and then after it dries it shrinks the paper to the wood and you paint it one way with the gesso then paint it the other way after the first gesso aplication dries then let the paper that is taped to the wood dry over night and you have a canvas type paper taped on wood to draw on or paint on....This method is really good to use Conte crayon on and you can erase in lights with out the paper tearing...Gesso is used to strengthen a serface....You can also gesso canvass...
2007-03-04 07:11:11 · answer #2 · answered by TRUE GRIT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Modern acrylic "gesso" is actually a combination of calcium carbonate with an acrylic polymer medium and a pigment.
Acrylic gesso is a modern art material, and has a proven record as a contemporary primer for oil painting and acrylics.
2007-03-04 07:01:25 · answer #3 · answered by Shanda 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋