Making Absorbant Gesso With Marble Dust

This will help make the gesso spread more easily and reduce causing air bubbles.

Making absorbant gesso with marble dust.

Is there a good recipe to make a pastel ground using marble dust. I bought a few cheepy canvases from michaels and want to smooth and stiffen them. Add 1 teaspoon glycerin or honey and stir. 10 pigment 90 whiting calcium carbonate gypsum and or marble dust the easiest way to get the percentage is to use 1 ounce pigment to 9 ounces whiting.

The most common use for marble dust in painting is creating traditional rabbit skin glue gesso a surface primer for paintings. Traditional artist s gesso is made by mixing whiting which is powdered chalk or marble dust with rabbit skin glue to form a base to paint onto. I m currently making the pastel ground primer using a mixture of gesso pumice powder and water. Here s the recipe to make your own clear gesso.

The flexing of the material will make the traditional gesso crack and flake. I m planning to play with hairy brushes and acrylic paints starting a painting class soon. There are lots on youtube but generally so gagingly goofy i can t finish them. 1 cup cheap white glue 1 4 cup water 4 to 5 heaping tablespoons of powdered marble or marble dust or marble.

I ve been looking for a diy recipe of gesso using marble dust and pva glue. However i d like something a little less abrasive. I ve gotten a bag of marble dust to try but it just comes out like really thick gesso. Traditional gesso is not flexible and so is not suitable to paint onto canvas.