Gessos & Grounds
Prepare and protect your canvases before starting a new work of art with sizing, gessos or grounds. These materials create a more paper-like surface that acts as a barrier to the canvas, allowing the radiance of the pigments to shine, rather than be absorbed into the canvas fibers. No matter your canvas preparation method of choice, we have you covered!
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Daniel Smith Watercolor Grounds
$11.80With Daniel Smith Watercolor Ground, artists can turn nearly every surface, wood, metal, ceramic, plastic, glass, board and more, into one ready for painting with watercolors. The ground creates a soft, absorbent surface with a slightly cottony...$11.80 -
Gamblin Oil Painting Ground
$25.65Oil Painting Ground is a non-absorbent ground that can create bright and firm surfaces for oil paintings. A safer alternative to traditional lead oil grounds, this product is formulated from alkyd resin instead of linseed oil to speed up the drying...$25.65 -
Gamblin PVA Sizing
$16.15Diluted with distilled water, PVA (Poly Vinyl Acetate) is a size or ground for fabrics. Used to prepare raw canvas for oils, conservation scientists recommend painters use PVA instead of rabbit skin glue. PVA seals the fabric but does not re-absorb...$16.15 -
Liquitex Basics Acrylic Gesso
$10.40Liquitex Basics Acrylic Gesso is an opaque, matte white gesso to create the ideal foundation for artwork. Use it to prime all porous surfaces such as canvas, wood and paper. Once dry it adds tooth (surface texture), creating the right...$10.40 -
Liquitex Gesso, Clear
$16.79Use Liquitex Clear Gesso to seal, prime and add tooth (for color adhesion) to all surfaces such as canvas, wood, paper and metal. This gesso is non-yellowing, flexible and non-cracking. On most supports it will take just one, undiluted coat to...$16.79 -
Golden Acrylic Gesso, White
$15.59Golden's Acrylic White Gesso is a ready-to-use formulation to prepare most surfaces for painting. It is flexible and can be applied as a flat ground, and in thin layers to conform to a variety of textures without cracking. Apply with a brush, roller or...$15.59 -
Williamsburg Genuine Rabbit Skin Glue
$32.99Williamsburg Genuine Rabbit Skin Glue comes as a crystalized powder. Traditionally used as a size, an adhesive and a component of gesso in painting. When used as a ground for oil painting to protect the canvas fibers from the deterioration...$32.99 -
Krylon Gesso Spray
$20.68Krylon Gesso Spray is a gesso spray paint for covering surfaces that dries quickly and easily. As a primer, it provides the same characteristics as brush-on gesso, without chipping or yellowing over time. This spray gesso is perfect for using on canvas,...$20.68 -
Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso
$16.99Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso is an impasto acrylic gesso designed to create unique, thick, sculptural applications. It is non-yellowing, flexible and non-cracking when dry. On most supports like canvas, paper and wood, it will take just one,...$16.99 -
Liquitex Gessos, White
$16.79Use Liquitex Gesso to seal, prime and add tooth (for color adhesion) to all surfaces such as canvas, wood, paper and metal. This gesso is non-yellowing, flexible and non-cracking. On most supports it will take just one, undiluted coat to effectively...$16.79 -
Fredrix Canvas Glue Sizing
$37.40Fredrix Canvas Glue Sizing is a superior sizing material used to prepare raw canvas for priming with an oil ground. This glue is a natural product that possesses the qualities of strength and flexibility without plasticizer additives. Artists...$37.40 -
Montana Universal Spray Primer
$12.40Montana Universal Spray Primer is ideal for sealing and preparing different surfaces for painting. It assists in adhesion, maximizes coverage of further coatings, offers resistance against rust and seals porous surfaces and protects from the...$12.40 -
Golden Sandable Hard Gesso
$16.99Golden's Sandable Hard Gesso is formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsion to produce an easily sanded surface that is smoother and more even than one created using regular gesso. It should be used only on inflexible substrates such as hardboard,...$16.99 -
Golden Absorbent Ground
$16.99Absorbent Ground is an acrylic liquid medium that dries to a porous, paper-like surface. Applied over gessoed canvas, it is designed for waterbased applications and is permanent and flexible. Watercolor paints work well when applied over GOLDEN...$16.99 -
Golden Acrylic Pastel Ground, 8 oz
$16.99Pastel Ground is a ground developed to prepare canvas and other supports for pastels and materials including, graphite, pencil, charcoal and chalk. The medium provides a toothy texture similar to pastel and charcoal papers. To increase tooth even...$16.99 -
Liquitex Gesso, Black
$16.99Use Liquitex Gesso to seal, prime and add tooth (for color adhesion) to all surfaces such as canvas, wood, paper and metal. This gesso is non-yellowing, flexible and non-cracking. On most supports it will take just one, undiluted coat to effectively...$16.99 -
Liquitex Gesso, Neutral Grey
$16.99Use Liquitex Gesso to seal, prime and add tooth (for color adhesion) to all surfaces such as canvas, wood, paper and metal. This gesso is non-yellowing, flexible and non-cracking. On most supports it will take just one, undiluted coat to effectively...$16.99 -
Golden Acrylic Gesso, Black
$16.99Golden's Acrylic Black Gesso is a ready-to-use formulation to prepare most surfaces for painting. It is flexible and can be applied as a flat ground, and in thin layers to conform to a variety of textures without cracking. Apply with a brush, roller...$16.99