Article · Karima Rebecca Powell Artist
Acrylic pastes, gesso and texture
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
About this lesson
An artist's hands-on tests of texture grounds: comparing gessos from several brands, making gesso and paste with marble powder of different grain sizes and PVA, using crackle paste thin and thick, and how modelling pastes dry, sand and hold found objects. Illustrated with more than ten sample photos.
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