The crow on the back is black gesso from a stencil i cut, highlighted with paint marker. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » 2010 » February] Reference
Artists are familiar with yeso. .we call it gesso. esperanza. From Wordnik.com. [whitewash/sealer/primer] Reference
Modern acrylic-based grounds incorrectly called "gesso" do not damage the canvas so they can be applied directly without sizing. From Wordnik.com. ["Does the United States really want to be a country that sends horses to slaughter, here or abroad?"] Reference
So, after I "gesso" the book, I let it dry standing upright and "fanned" open between coats. From Wordnik.com. [art junk girl] Reference
Pretty please with sugar, cherry, and gesso on top. From Wordnik.com. [Gurney at Norton en Español] Reference
After that I layered white and green-tinted gesso over it. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » 2008 » September] Reference
 I started with a piece of canvas to which I applied gesso. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Fox Laughs] Reference
The foam bases can be surfaced with gesso and modeling paste. From Wordnik.com. [Walter Wick at Work] Reference
I decided to call it a boon when the gesso smeared the flower. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #4: The Sparrow Looks Up] Reference
 Then I painted on the gesso with India ink and wiped it off. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #2: “There were facts about ravens she didn’t want the others to know.”] Reference
I gesso random, that's what it is ... listen to your buddy Garth. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
'Besides, gesso and gold dust were found on the victims' clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
I painted an arched rectangle with gesso, then looked for papers. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #2: “There were facts about ravens she didn’t want the others to know.”] Reference
Or is there something on it- primer, gesso, white paint, anything?. From Wordnik.com. ["When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood."] Reference
Prime three times with gesso to produce a good surface, let it dry. From Wordnik.com. [They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff] Reference
If you want your record to hang against a wall, only gesso one side. From Wordnik.com. [DIY Vinyl: Paint It and Hang It!] Reference
I had read about some gesso resist techniques and wanted to try them. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #5 Darling Sparrow] Reference
I added black gesso just as I did to the other two books in this series. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » 2010 » February] Reference
This is my first time using gesso for anything other than priming a canvas. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » 2008 » September] Reference
Painted with gesso again, one more light sanding and then started to paint. From Wordnik.com. [Dog head for “There Will Come Soft Rains”] Reference
I've tried using cheaper versions of gesso but the result is not acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
Só trabalho, só máscaras, a roupa cheia de gesso parecia u m empreiteiro. From Wordnik.com. [Carnaval] Reference
It's charcoal on gesso with acrylic from Novacolor, and they're still around. From Wordnik.com. [incipit vita nova] Reference
The background is entirely of gold, thickly studded with bosses of gilded gesso. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
After the gesso dried, I used interference paints to give the surface some depth. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Key Book] Reference
Gum and rose water are also prescribed, and again, gesso, white of egg, and honey. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Between the shrouds, a layer of gesso (a type of chalky plaster) covers each body. From Wordnik.com. [Martyrs or Imperial Guard?] Reference
 This made it even worse, obscuring what little remained of the design in the gesso. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #5 Darling Sparrow] Reference
At art school, my friend dropped a can of gesso white coating used on canvases as a base. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Happy Third Anniversary…] Reference
The rectangles I purchased for this arent quiet ready, errr well the gesso, isn't cured enough. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
I lay awake at night, gazing at the white-gesso ceiling with its furbishes of fruit and flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
 Secondly, despite being afraid of ruining another sharpie, no other pen writes well on gesso. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #2: “There were facts about ravens she didn’t want the others to know.”] Reference
 I painted gesso and clear acrylic medium over the rest of the watercolor paper and let it dry. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #4: The Sparrow Looks Up] Reference
First he prepared the surface of his paintings with gesso, then built up thin layers of oil color. From Wordnik.com. [Innocence And Experience] Reference
 It also makes the surface kind of greasy, which is partly why I did the gesso in the next step. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #7: Half Flight] Reference
This one started as gesso brushed over off white muslin, with stamps impressed into it for texture. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Key Book] Reference
This is to be painted on to the gesso ground just mentioned, and when quite dry, burnished with an agate. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
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