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Professional Super Heavy Gesso

SKU:094376945737

Professional acrylic gessoes, mediums, additives and varnishes - to prep your surfaces all the way through to protecting your finished work. Each medium is uniquely formulated to deliver a different result. From gloss gels to experimental texture effects and finishes, each lets you adjust your paint to suit your practice. Gessoes prime your surfaces and add tooth, ready for paint application. Create the perfect absorbency, texture and archival ground.

Size

8oz/237ml 32oz/946ml 128oz/3.78l

$47.79

Quantity

MEDIUMS

Use with
Acrylic & oil paints/mediums

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Chalk & oil pastels

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Graphite, pencil & charcoal

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Use on
Raw canvas

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Hardboard & paper

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Wood & non-oily, porous supports

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Character

Lightfast & archival

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Permanent

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Non-yellowing

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Flexible & non-cracking

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Water-resistant when dry

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Intermixable with all Liquitex materials

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All our paints are intermixable and water-based, with archival results. Tested and certified at Duke University by the ACMI.

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MORE INFO

What it does
How to use it
  • Fully intermixable with all Liquitex products
  • Can be thinned with Liquitex Gesso
  • Sand hard or shiny surfaces first, apply to support with a knife/brush and leave to dry for at least 24 hours before starting to paint
  • Add acrylic color for a custom tint - Soft Body Acrylic is the optimum consistency

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Tips & Techniques

Useful guides for working with gessoes, mediums and varnishes

Guide

Surface preparation
Video Guide

How to use our professional Gloss Gels
Guide

Creating texture

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