Gesso, Surfaces, & Substrates

Learn how to select, prepare, and work with different surfaces for encaustic painting, from wood panels to alternative substrates. Discover best practices for priming with encaustic gesso, creating a stable painting surface, and experimenting with underpainting techniques like pigmenting gesso. Explore ways to reclaim and rework encaustic-covered boards for sustainable art practices.

Holy Grail colored gesso | Create an Underpainting for Encaustic

By Hylla Evans / March 3, 2011

In this post Hylla Evans of Evans Encaustics introduces us to pigmented encaustic gesso and the concept of encaustic underpainting Colored Gesso for Encaustic Painting So you think you know […]

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