GOLDEN's Gessos and Grounds offer artists a variety of ways to prepare materials for acrylic paintings or other art media such as oil, alkyds, charcoal, pastels and even watercolor!
Absorbent Ground - For watercolor-like effects! Absorbent Ground is an acrylic liquid surfacing medium that dries to a porous, paper-like surface. Applied over gessoed canvas, it allows for raw canvaslike staining and watercolor effects. Lightfast, permanent and flexible. Health Labeled (HL) Product. Not for use by children.
Acrylic Ground for Pastels - Provides a tooth similar to papers designed for pastel and chalk. This acrylic ground is for the preparation of canvas and other supports for pastels. To increase "tooth", add GOLDEN Fine or Coarse Pumice Gel. The product can be blended with GOLDEN Acrylic colors for colored grounds.
Gesso - The bridge between the surface and the paint. GOLDEN's Gesso is designed to penetrate a material and provide a surface for the adherence of paint. Proper preparation of the support with GOLDEN Gesso can increase the life span of the artwork. This Gesso is formulated to be flexible and is highly pigmented for excellent opaque coverage. Allows artists to prepare materials for acrylic paintings or other art media such as oil, alkyds, charcoal, pastels and even watercolor. Available in White and Black.
Sandable Hard Gesso - For extremely smooth surfaces. is formulated with 100% acrylic polymer emulsion and can be sanded to provide surfaces that are smoother and more even than those created using regular gesso. Contains high levels of titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate and talc to produce an easily sanded, sooth, even surface.