Liquitex - Acrylic Colored Gesso
Acrylic Colored Gesso
Prime canvases with perfectly balanced undertones
Colored grounds transform how your painting develops from the first stroke. Liquitex Acrylic Colored Gesso eliminates the stark white stare of raw canvas, letting you establish value relationships immediately and build color with greater efficiency. Available in black and gray, these hues provide carefully balanced middle values that support both light and dark passages without fighting your palette. Mix them together for custom mid-tones that match your specific vision.
Premium acrylic formulation delivers professional surface preparation in a single coat. The gesso flexes with canvas movement without cracking, maintaining integrity through stretching, environmental changes, and aggressive paint application. Non-yellowing polymers ensure your carefully chosen ground color stays true decades later, critical when working on toned surfaces where shifts would alter the entire piece. Suitable for both acrylic and oil painting, it creates proper tooth for paint adhesion while sealing raw surfaces against deterioration.
Working on a colored ground changes your entire approach, you're painting toward light rather than just adding darks, and middle values emerge faster with less labor. Portrait painters value the gray for establishing form quickly, while black grounds bring dramatic intensity to high-contrast compositions.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
- Premium acrylic gesso for surface preparation
- Non-yellowing, flexible, non-cracking formula
- One coat coverage for most applications
- Works with acrylic and oil paint
- Available in black and gray
- Intermixable colors create custom value ranges
