Gesso Premium 500ml

You can also tint your gesso to make any colour you want. Mix a little acrylic paint into the gesso, and you've got some tinted gesso.

It would help if you painted When Gesso is dry. Gesso should be dry to paint on because Gesso's purpose is to create an interface between the support and the Paint. The Gesso Provides a smooth, absorbent and luminous background. If you paint while Gesso is still wet, you disrupt the gesso layer and may risk exposing the substrate and removing the isolation layer.

Gesso acts as a flexible, semi-absorbent, protective layer between the medium and the surface. Canvas needs to be protected from the Gesso as well, as follows.

Gesso is very similar to acrylic paint and dries hard, making the surface stiffer. Gesso prepares the surface for painting and makes the surface slightly textured and ready to accept acrylic paint.

Acrylic primer is suitable for acrylic and oil painting. Gesso, pronounced 'gesso', was traditionally used to prepare or prime a surface so Oil paint would hold fast.