Gessoes and Primers

100% pure acrylic polymer formula has a rich, smooth viscosity that is easy to spread. Good opacity, tooth, adhesion, and water-resistance at an economical price. Apply to raw canvas, wood, hardboard, paper, and other porous surfaces as an excellent preparatory ground for for oil or acrylic painting.

Choose Blick Professional Acrylic Gesso for maximum opacity, tooth, adhesion, and water-resistance, plus the highest concentration of titanium pigment for the brightest white ground. One-coat coverage.

Blick Studio Gesso is an excellent primer for canvas, linen, and board. Acrylic-based formula is a suitable base for oil and acrylic painting. Non-permeable, thick, and bright white (unlike many low-cost student gessoes, Blick uses only titanium dioxide pigment).

This artist-quality, acrylic, acid-free white gesso from Daniel Smith is archival, thick and heavily pigmented. It's made with a high-grade acrylic emulsion for optimal flexibility and durability. Titanium White Gesso offers excellent coverage and opacity and has a great lightfast rating.

Golden White Gesso is a semi-opaque acrylic primer. Flexible, toothy, and semi-absorbent, this 100% acrylic ground is ready to use on any commonly used painting surface. It is flexible and can be applied in thin layers to conform to a variety of textured surfaces without cracking.

Golden Black Gesso is an opaque acrylic primer. It's flexible and can be applied in thin layers to conform to a variety of textured surfaces without cracking. For oil painting over acrylic gesso, it is recommended that at least three layers of gesso be applied.

Golden Sandable Hard Gesso is formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsion with high levels of titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate, and talc to produce an easily sanded, smooth and even surface. For use on rigid supports only.

Use Liquitex Gessos as a preparatory ground for acrylic or oil paintings on canvas, paper, and wood. Thinnable with water if desired.

This economic gesso is designed to work with Liquitex Basics Acrylics. Provides a lightly textured, smooth surface for wood, paper, fabric, canvas and other porous surfaces. Dries in minutes.

Use MTN Pro Gesso Primer to prepare a variety of surfaces for paint application. Flexible and high opaque, it enhances the surface’s adhesion and closes pores so less paint is needed.

Made from pure titanium white, calcium carbonate and acrylic polymer, Utrecht Artists’ Gesso has amazing covering power. Gallon size pictured. Utrecht Artists' Acrylic Gesso is an excellent medium-bodied acrylic ground.

Professional quality gesso that produces optimal whiteness and covering power. Utrecht Professional Acrylic Gesso is formulated with a high concentration of an exceptional grade of Titanium Dioxide for optimal whiteness and covering power.

The answer for the budget minded educators and students seeking quality at an economical price for high-volume use. Gallon size pictured. Utrecht Studio Series Acrylic Gesso is a light-bodied acrylic ground that provides a slight toothed surface.

Made from the same resinous binder used to make Winsor & Newton acrylics, this painting medium will improve durability, keep the colours brilliant, extend the colour, bring transparency and depth to the film, and improve flow and "brushability. ”.

Daniel Smith Iridescent Gold Watercolor Ground is semi-transparent, which allows the color and/or pattern of the surface it's applied onto to show slightly through the iridescent gold sheen.

A water-based acrylic primer designed for use on glossy or nonporous surfaces. Fleur Universal Primer makes it possible to paint on any surface, including MDF, melamine, varnished wood, most metals, glass, and plastic. White in color.

Gamblin ground makes a strong foundation for oil paintings. Formulated with alkyd resin, titanium dioxide and barium sulfate, Gamblin ground makes fabric supports (canvas and linen) stiffer than acrylic gesso and more flexible than traditional oil primers.

Diluted with distilled water, PVA size is a contemporary size for fabric support. Conservation scientists recommend painters use neutral pH PVA size on linen and canvas instead of rabbit skin glue.

An opaque acrylic primer for watermedia that dries to an absorbent, porous, paper-like surface. This white, 100% acrylic ground is highly absorbent, soft, and flexible. Multiple coats increase absorbency and opacity.

Dries to a hard, stiff film. When applied over fabric, it will stiffen the support. GAC's can be blended with Golden Acrylic Paints to extend the paint, regulate transparency, create glazes, increase gloss, reduce viscosity, or improve adhesion and film integrity.

Golden Pastel Ground is a textured acrylic medium designed to prepare surfaces for the application of pastels, charcoal, oil and acrylic paint, and other art media where a coarse tooth is desired. Off-white and translucent.

Stop oil colors from looking dull, flat, and muted with Michael Harding Non-Absorbent Acrylic Primer. This specially formulated primer creates a non-absorbent surface that doesn't leech the oil from oil paints like a conventional acrylic primer does, helping oil colors keep their original luster.

Apply tight 'n' up to the back of a painted, stretched canvas and it will instantly remove any previous sagging. It causes the canvas to shrink slightly, then fills the pores with a binding agent to retain the tension after it dries.

Developed for use as an easy and stable alternative to rabbit skin glue. Our sizing is made of acrylic resins, polymerized for resistance to temperature, humidity, oil, and water. This versatile ground can be used as a priming base for either oil or acrylics.

A primer for a traditionally prepared oil painting surface. Our oil priming white is composed of pure titanium dioxide, zinc white, and calcium carbonate ground in a lean mixture of fine linseed oil. Complete instructions appear on the container.

A traditional canvas and panel sizing in granulated form. Utrecht Genuine Rabbit Skin Glue is a traditional canvas panel sizing that exhibits excellent adhesion and barrier properties.

Williamsburg is made with the purest pigments and premium, alkali-refined linseed oil that is ground to enhance the beauty and luminosity of each particular pigment. This high quality oil ground contains no lead. Composed of Titanium White, marble dust, and linseed oil for flexibility.