Koo Schadler teaches you how to make homemade gesso with her tried-and-true gesso recipe, as well as how to apply that gesso on wood or hardboard panels.

Recipe for Traditional Gesso from American Egg Tempera Society Grounds The ground is the prepared painting surface and for egg tempera this should be a traditional gesso. This gesso is a mixture of some form of whiting (chalk, gypsum, marble dust or …

Chalk gesso is a white plaster-like priming that is applied to a rigid substrate (i.e. some sort of board) to make a smooth, hard yet absorbent surface for egg tempera painting. It can also be used under oil paintings.

Jul 17, 2017 · In the next art of egg tempera painting article, I’ll describe the gesso making process, and what artists typically think of as gesso is not true gesso.

Jul 17, 2024 · Explanations about how to make egg tempera and some of the medium’s techniques can be found in my articles published in the January and February editions of the Leisure Painter available in the shops from November and December respectively.

Simply dip your brush into this creamy Casein Gesso and apply onto any surface. Casein Gesso is ideally suited for such traditional mediums as Encaustic and Egg Tempera, but can also be used for such paints as Oils, Acrylics, Watercolors, Gouache and Milk Paints.

Gesso, a mixture of gelatin and whiting (calcium carbonate), is the ground onto which the gold leaf and pigment will be applied. Preparing smooth, even gesso is important as it provides a surface for these materials to strongly adhere to the board.

Aug 17, 2022 · The traditional gesso recipe used in water gilding performs two functions: filling the grain of the wood and providing a smooth, hard surface that allows water gilded gold leaf to be burnished to a brilliant lustre, assisted by the soft cushion of clay bole applied to …

Egg tempera is generally used on gesso grounds of hide glue and chalk over solid supports such as wood panels. You should easily be able to find mixes of dry glue and chalk, to which you can add water to mix your gesso, but you can’t purchase it in the liquid form.

In addition to creating a ground for painting, gesso can be carved, molded or built up. A brilliant white Gesso, ivory smooth and ideal for egg tempera and oil. For the hide glue solution refer to our Artist's Glue Paint recipe to prepare the solution.