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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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 -
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 -
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 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