Reuse an Old Canvases with Gesso | Acrylic Painting 

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Thank you Linnette! I’m so glad you enjoyed my Gesso video! You’ll pick up many more tips and tricks to acrylic painting in my other tutorials too! Happy painting! 😊

I’m glad you found it use full 🙂 happy painting 🎨

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Hello! You can paint over a clear spray. As long as your not using a water based paint over an oil based spray 🙃 I often repaint my canvases 5-6 times - but only if it’s a relatively flat painting - if it’s a palette knife work, I don’t reuse.

Yes, you can absolutely add acrylic paint to your gesso to make a coloured ground

If it was originally an acrylic painting, you may paint with either acrylic or oil. However, if she did an oil painting beneath, you cannot - should never - paint on top with acrylic. The acrylic is an air drying type of paint, and will basically lift the oil paint underneath and leave a big mess. It would be advised to search up how to remove the oil paint first, because you will be putting on *acrylic* gesso on top.

You can - It doesn’t have the nice sheen of the acrylic polymer so it will look a bit out of place and duller than the rest of your painting - it’s also a great deal thicker because of all the calcium carbonate. I always recommend using a nice titanium white paint. But if you absolutely have to it can be used in a pinch and you can coat your painting after with Matt medium to make it all the same sheen

@@jesserobertson thanks! That helped a lot!

if its an oil based coating it could peel but if it’s something you’re not attached to, why not experiment and see what happens? Have fun and get creative! 😊

Acrylic dries very fast! Dry time depends on: how thick the paint was applied, how humid it is and if a slow time extender/retardant was use. Even with the thickest application of paint, you’re looking at about 24 hours. Thin paint 15-30 minutes 🙂

Brilliant, thanks 😊

If It’s acrylic, it will look smoother in terms of blending. If it’s oil, then the colours tend not to be blended smoothly together. Instead, they are put on layer by layer, and the colours are more separate. Look at the paintings of flowers and fruits online of oil painting. They tend to look more, well, oily😂. Acrylic tends to have sharp edges but it is possible that the artist has done some decent blending. If it’s acrylic, there is a high chance that the painting is sealed with acrylic varnish, to stop the painting deteriorating. This makes the acrylic look glossy.

Chances are it’s oil. Professionals tend to do oil

Hi Ashley! I usually paint flat on a table top for my tutorials but when I do use an easel I often use this one: app.jesserobertson.com/#/watch/Table_Top_Easel-CA

@@jesserobertson I love that your easel is well loved. #driedpainteverywhere ❤️

Yes! You can add modpodge over gesso. Also, If you have acrylic medium, you can use it in place of modpodge as well as to extend your acrylic paints!

I use matte medium by liquitex to adhere images in collages 🙂

HI! Gesso is used more as a primer for canvases and paper because gesso is more absorbent and dries with more of a matte finish.

What should I do

You can add a little bit of water to your gesso if you’d like to thin it a bit 😊