gesso

This allows gesso to remain flexible enough to use on canvas.

The first step in each case was to cover the original face with gesso, thus acquiring a base on which to paint.

Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso.

Gesso also works as a surface primer for painting and preserving it.

This layer helps to "tone" the canvas and to cover the white of the gesso.

She often primes her canvases with black gesso instead of the usual white.

The surface of the board was covered with gesso before the design was painted on it.

An ice fog of gesso descended upon the image.

She prepares her surfaces with two coats of chalky gesso.

This paint is then applied over gesso on birch-plywood panels.

Panels were prepared with a gesso, a mixture of glue and chalk.

Acrylic gesso is produced in high-load black and white versions.

They are prepared with two or three coats of gesso and are ready for use straight away.

The canvases get eight or nine layers of gesso, then are sanded.

They laid down the background color, then painted figures in tempera on the gesso.

The object being gilded was coated with adhesive, usually gesso.

You can even see the gesso oozing through the canvas weave in the reverse.

He had used tempera over gesso, which is not usually used for wall painting.

Gesso can also be used as a layer between sculptured wood and gold leaf.

He has brought a large, Rothko-like canvas made with blue gesso and marble dust.

Nearby was another canvas embedded with wire, rags and gesso, which came together to form a single, large face.

The colour of gesso was usually white or off-white.

He would build up the white gesso, at times adding oil paint, until it could almost be mistaken for collage.

A hunk of gesso gouged from the coffee table?

Wilson also introduced him to gesso and plasterwork techniques.