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  1. Acrylic Painting
    I did a personal first-time experiment and prepped a canvas with many layers of gesso, sanding thoroughly between each layer. I had heard that sanding your canvas can help you paint finer details more smoothly, and I wanted to try it out. I did not consider the consequence of completely removing...
  2. Acrylic Painting
    Hello, suuper new to painting, and have not found this topic anywhere on the internet, so hope some of you will have XP to know :) When i prime the canvas with white gesso, the chalky part of it seems to come off when rubbed with wet things (licking a finger and rubbing will leave a white...
  3. Pastel Painting
    Here are two landscape paintings I've done on pastel paper coated with clear gesso. Both are 9x12 and I used Mungyo and Yarka soft pastels. As I am new to pastel, I'm trying different style approaches to painting with pastel. I am more attracted to the impressionistic style and not using ground...
  4. Oil Painting
    I have sized hardboard (fiberboard) panels with white alkyd primer (Beckers Nondrop) bought at the hardware store. The result is a perfect surface for oil painting. The traditional way is to size with rabbit skin glue or fish glue and then add a layer of oil gesso. Alternatively one can use...
  5. Oil Painting
    Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I have a question about the use of gesso in priming canvases and other surfaces for oil painting. I read on the internet that all gesso that is sold premixed is actually acrylic gesso, and that paintings primed with it start to crack and peel off after 10-20...
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