Liquitex BASICS Gesso Surface Prep Medium, 473ml (16-oz) Bottle, White

Wonderful product. Makes my projects look so professional even though I am just a beginner. Good quantity. Will purchase more once it gets over

My item was packaged well and Item came sealed.

good cover

Not the cheapest, for sure, but, easy to apply, thick but easily spreadable, with a smooth texture (no clumps or pieces of anything). I am doing a lot of experimenting, and needed some gesso to be able to reuse canvases. So far I cannot complain. Dries to a nice good consistency of an acrylic prepped canvas, paint goes onto it quite well. If you have managed to peel off some old paint and the canvas threads are showing, this will cover it up in 3 layers and make it look brand new, be prepared to let them dry between applying. I cannot speak as to archival quality as of yet, have not used it for long, but so far, Im happy!

I used this product as a primer or base for y acrylic paintings and also on heavy water color paper in order to allow acrylics to work well on the stiffened , thicker watercolor paper. It works well wet for some works and dries super fast on my canvases. Its a flexible and adaptive painters staple. Canvasses are much smoother even with just one gesso coat.

I use this to prep my canvases for pour painting. It is excellent quality. Very easy to use and spread. Great for beginners - if you are new to art spread this on your canvas with a brush before using your acrylics.

Coverage is not great. More see-through than expected. A lot is needed for minimum coverage. My advice: Don’t use Liquitex. There are better brands out there.

My daughter asked us to purchase and I didn’t realize the purpose of this is more for prep of a surface than use as paint. This is very thin and almost transparent when used with other colors on a painting canvas. This is not good to use as a white paint, it’s so bad you would need to use the whole bottle or more to even get the white color.

This works great as a primer for my paintings! Ive used it on a piece of styrofoam that we use to insulate our fireplace, I painted a fire scene on it and it made for an excellent base! I also use this on cheaper canvases that tend to soak in more paint, thus taking much more time to paint on and it really makes a difference. I found that using a sponge works the best to apply it, I just wet the sponge and dab into the gesso and apply and it goes on very nicely!

Easy to use and covers well