Liquitex Professional Gesso Surface Prep Medium, 237ml (8-oz), Black

as expected

This page covers several Liquitex Gesso products so I will offer my comparison of those I have used. Liquitex Professional Clear Gesso: Interesting stuff, which you would want to use for its specific properties, rather than general use. Clear gesso is kind of fun if you have an interesting background you want to preserve while prepping it to take other materials. This gesso, additionally, is extremely toothy. It is nice for oil pastels, or any other medium that really does well with something to stick to. I would not want to use it for soft pastels, though, if you like to smooth them with your fingers. It is very gritty and would probably scratch your skin if you rubbed it too much. Liquitex Professional Gesso (white): a free flowing gesso with medium to strong pigment coverage. If you want to cover up the background completely you will probably want two layers. Liquitex Basics Acrylic Gesso: a slightly heavy bodied gesso with light to medium pigment coverage. About similar in tooth to the professional, when dry. I did a comparison test of the two white gesso products and found that the Basics is thicker but less pigmented, while the Professional is wetter, but more strongly pigmented. They are both quality products and which would be better really depends on your application.

good quality product. Ill buy it again.

I bought this because Bob Ross used black gesso, and I like Liquitex.

Awesome product

Good value in this size at this price. This covers very well with two coats on raw linen. If I want more texture I can add Gesso to meet the surface I am trying to make. Drys pretty fast too.

Once you try gesso youll wonder how you ever lived without it. It has so many uses for many mediums and I just love it.

Great for my rock painting projects

love this product, especially that its in a squeeze bottle so no black mess to clean up. It spread well and covered a regular canvas nicely without additional coats. i did a study on that canvas and have to say, maybe i should have done multiple coats because it was a very gripping surface with one coat. probably my fault, but worth sharing. i will do two coats an lightly sand like most gesso coats on regular canvases. i like trying black for portraits - this was a first try and i think this product did very well....just a learning curve for me. i will buy again.

This is my second bottle purchase. I like to use it on paint by numbers canvas whether it was treated by manufacturer or not. It primes the canvas making it easier to paint as acrylic paint tends to stick better to the canvas. Using clear gesso allows the numbers in the canvas to be seen so theres no problem painting. It does seems to damage the brush hair faster as gesso primed canvas tends to be a bit sandy, but I like it as it makes painting so much easier and faster.