Gesso?
You’ve heard of it, but you don’t know what to do with it? I use it to prepare my wooden supports to use it for painting with. Why buy celicate stretched canvases… With wood, you’ve got somthing solid in your hand. Mine MDF plates are 16mm thick and before painting I have to do something so that paint and wood really make a unit. Otherwise oil paint that works for a long time cracks.
Because I had a remains of acrylic paint, I tried that as connections, but it failed, and after half a year I saw the first cracks. They were not everywhere what would be a kind of acceptable. If I want to repair it, I have to rework it again and again. So, better user gesso from the start.
Besides, it’s better not to use pure gesso, because you see the brush’s stripes that remain visible after drying. You can thin it with water. You find the right amount printed on the container.
It takes some hours to dry. So, it’s better to prepare some more supports in one go instead of getting out gesso every time you want to start a new work.
Happy Painting!
