Acrylic Gessoes and Primers

Our own exclusive artists' grade gesso offers good opacity, tooth, adhesion, and water-resistance at an economical Blick price.

Blickrylic Gesso is non-toxic, and can be mixed with other brands of acrylics. Apply it as a ground to any surface to improve adherance of Blickrylic and other polymer acrylic paints.

A ready-mixed painting ground, Liquitex Acrylic Gessos prime surfaces and add the right level of tooth for optimum color stability, adhesion, and absorbency. Apply to stiffen canvas and provide an archival base to a wide variety of supports and surfaces, including canvas, paper, and wood.

Utrecht Artists' Acrylic Gesso is an excellent medium-bodied acrylic ground. It is formulated with the same high-grade titanium dioxide and quality polymers that are found in Utrecht Professional Gesso, but has a more fluid viscosity.

Utrecht Studio Series Gesso is an economical acrylic ground that's great for high-volume use. It's a light-bodied gesso that provides a slightly toothed surface, which can be sanded to a smooth finish if desired.

Our own exclusive artists' grade gesso offers good opacity, tooth, adhesion, and water-resistance at an economical Blick price.

Prepare canvas, linen, and board with bright white, non-permeable Dick Blick Master Gesso - the perfect primer for oil and acrylic painting. It covers beautifully in one coat and dries quickly. Best of all, it features a lower price than most brands.

The frugal professional's best choice! Blick Professional Acrylic Gesso offers maximum opacity, tooth, adhesion, and water-resistance, plus the highest concentration of titanium pigment for the brightest white ground.

Chroma Atelier Gesso Primers provide an effective ground for Chroma Atelier Interactive Artists' Acrylics or any good-quality acrylic paints. The Primers offer excellent adhesion, flexibility, and tooth. They create a sound sealing barrier between any substrate and subsequent layers of paint.

Chroma's Fusion I.A. Series Pro-Grade Binder Medium is a heavy-duty binder designed for prepping and sealing surfaces before painting with acrylics or oils. Offering superior adhesion, it remains flexible while preventing the loss of moisture into the substrate.

Fusion I.A. Series Pro-Grade White Gesso from Chroma is a heavy-bodied, bright white gesso that delivers industrial-strength opacity, adhesion, and water resistance. It dries to a flexible, non-yellowing, matte finish, and is suitable for professional works of art.

Use professional-grade Daniel Smith Acrylic Gesso to create an archival, lightfast painting surface for oils and acrylics. It's available in radiant Iridescent Gold or classic Titanium White.

A waterbased acrylic primer designed for use on glossy or non-porous surfaces, including MDF, melamine, varnished wood, most metals, glass, and plastic. Helps paint adhere to many material, ensuring a long-lasting finish.

Because one coat is generally all you need for superior coverage, This professional-grade, acrylic titanium primer is a great value for artists of all levels.

Golden Acrylic Gesso is a ready-to-use liquid ground formulated for the use of acrylics on any commonly used painting surface. It’s flexible and can be applied in thin layers to conform to a variety of textured surfaces without cracking.

Grumbacher is known for the high quality of its thick-formula gesso. Use it to prepare canvas, wood, untempered pressed wood, cardboard, plaster, concrete, and masonry for painting with oil or acrylic colors. This may be thinned with water or tinted with acrylic paint to create a colored ground.

Holbein Acryla Super White Gesso is the ultimate artist-grade underpainting ground for waterbased colors, oil-based colors, and pastels. Available in three textures, this gesso dries to a perfect matte finish without brushstrokes.

Holbein Acrylic Gesso offers professional quality at an affordable price. Offering in White, Black, or Clear, it has excellent sealing properties and provides the ideal level of tooth for oil or acrylic painting.

An alternative to traditional rabbit glue size, Lascaux Acrylic Sizing is a non-toxic preparation made with pure acrylic resin that renders your canvas completely impervious and improves the bond on subsequent coats of primer.

Lascaux Gesso is a versatile and semi-absorbent canvas primer that can keep everybody happy - including oil, tempera, and acrylic painters. It delivers the same archival characteristics as Lascaux Primer White, while providing additional tooth and absorben

A ready-mixed painting ground, Liquitex Acrylic Gessos prime surfaces and add the right level of tooth for optimum color stability, adhesion, and absorbency. Apply to stiffen canvas and provide an archival base to a wide variety of supports and surfaces, including canvas, paper, and wood.

Specially formulated to be mixed with Matisse Background Colors, Matisse Transparent Gesso is the perfect primer for mediums that need a base with extra roughness, or “tooth”. Combine it with Background Colors to create a colored primer.

Old Holland New Masters Gessos are universal lightfast primers for use on a variety of surfaces, including canvas, cotton, paper, and stone. Apply them in multiple layers. Suitable as a primer for acrylics, oils, watercolors, and egg tempera.

Sennelier Acrylic Gesso is a mixture of acrylic resins and various Whites (or colors) that creates an indelible film and enables paint to adhere to canvases and other surfaces.

Tri-Art’s 100% Acrylic Gesso has superior covering power and flexibility. It dries to a matte white finish which can be easily sanded to provide a smoother ground. To create a more textured ground, combine it with Tri-Art Modeling Paste.

Utrecht's Acrylic Canvas Sizing was developed for use as an easy and stable alternative to rabbit skin glue. Made of acrylic resins, it is polymerized for resistance to temperature, humidity, oil, and water.

Utrecht Artists' Acrylic Gesso is an excellent medium-bodied acrylic ground. It is formulated with the same high-grade titanium dioxide and quality polymers that are found in Utrecht Professional Gesso, but has a more fluid viscosity.

Utrecht created its Professional Acrylic Gesso with the belief that a solid foundation is essential to the appearance, stability, and longevity of an artist's work. The result is an acid-free, archivally sound formula considered to be one of the finest acrylic grounds available today.

Use Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic Gesso to prime surfaces and provide "tooth" for good adhesion of acrylics, oils, and alkyds. Available in White or Clear formulas.

Prepare canvas, linen, and board with bright white, non-permeable Dick Blick Studio Gesso - the perfect primer for oil and acrylic painting. It covers beautifully in two coats and dries quickly.

Blickrylic Gesso is non-toxic, and can be mixed with other brands of acrylics. Apply it as a ground to any surface to improve adherance of Blickrylic and other polymer acrylic paints.

Produces a smooth, absorbent, finely textured ground for painting on most porous surfaces, such as canvas, paper, fabric, wood, or plaster. No thinning. Dries in minutes to a non-yellowing, brilliant white.

Utrecht Studio Series Gesso is an economical acrylic ground that's great for high-volume use. It's a light-bodied gesso that provides a slightly toothed surface, which can be sanded to a smooth finish if desired.

This primer is made from the highest quality acrylic resin and a superior pigment level. It's an opaque, white gesso that is ideal for priming a variety of surfaces. Its covering power and quality of binder make it the best when using one coat only.

Use professional-grade Daniel Smith Acrylic Gesso to create an archival, lightfast painting surface for oils and acrylics. It's available in radiant Iridescent Gold or classic Titanium White.

Golden Black Gesso is a ready-to-use liquid ground formulated to add “tooth” to canvas, board, and other commonly used painting surfaces. Apply it in thin layers to create a flexible, non-cracking, textured surface.

Holbein has created this unique and versatile product. It can be used as a traditional underpainting on all surfaces. It also acts as an extremely opaque and ultra-matte finish acrylic paint medium.

A ready-mixed painting ground, Liquitex Acrylic Gessos prime surfaces and add the right level of tooth for optimum color stability, adhesion, and absorbency. Apply to stiffen canvas and provide an archival base to a wide variety of supports and surfaces, including canvas, paper, and wood.

Create the perfect low-tooth base for a variety of media. Matisse Background Colors are made with a combination of high-grade acrylic paint and professional-quality gesso. Highly pigmented and lightfast, they can be applied with a brush or roller onto most surfaces.

Old Holland New Masters Gessos are universal lightfast primers for use on a variety of surfaces, including canvas, cotton, paper, and stone. Apply them in multiple layers. Suitable as a primer for acrylics, oils, watercolors, and egg tempera.

Similar to white gesso, Sennelier Acrylic Colored Gesso provides exceptional tooth and a matte surface for maximum paint adhesion. An excellent surface for acrylic and oil-based paints, Sennelier Colored Gesso allows paintings to be started on an opaque, colored surface.

Tri-Art’s 100% acrylic gesso has superior covering power and flexibility. It dries to a matte black finish which can be easily sanded to provide a smoother ground. Combine black and white gessos to create intermediate shades.

Sludge is an economical alternative to both a neutral ground and neutral color. It can be used in place of gesso when a muted base is desired. Sludge is semi-opaque and can be used in small quantities as an opacifier or medium-toned color extender.