Liquitex Professional Super Heavy Gesso

Liquitex Professional Super Heavy Gesso

Supporting and collaborating with artists, creatives, and their communities. Developing and offering the boldest range of acrylic paints, mediums and tools to help everyone take an idea, big or small, and make it real. And proudly, passionately, relentlessly doing it all since 1955.

This is Liquitex - the world's first commercial water-based artists' acrylic paint.

About this product:

• Gives a textured matte white, opaque finish which provides a professional standard, archival base to help maintain the longevity of your work;
• Adds 3D texture and acts as an ideal base for thick sculptural shape and weight;
• Primes surfaces and adds maximum tooth for maximum color adhesion and stability;
• Stiffens canvases and creates the optimum absorbency for paint application;
• Always use a quality artist's gesso if you want a lasting, archival base - a low-cost ground will flake and separate from your support, taking your work with it;
• Under the right conditions, a professional gesso like this will last generations;
• Sand hard or shiny surfaces first, apply to support with a knife/brush and leave to dry for at least 24 hours before starting to paint;
• Add acrylic color for a custom tint - Soft Body Acrylic is the optimum consistency;
• To create a smoother base, sand the surface and reapply gesso;
• If using it as a base for oils, apply 2-4 coats and sand between applications.