What is Gesso and How to Use it for Mixed Media Projects 

I was mesmerized watching you bring this canvas to life... I would love to have your talent. Thank you for sharing this video and your amazing creativity. 😊

Omg!! She is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Getting so much information out of this one. I also love the stabilo pencil but I make a mess with it. But now I’m gonna know how to tone it down.

I am in awh watching you.paint. I think a person could learn much watching your videos. Glad I found your videos. Thank you so much, Peggy

Absolutely beautiful Karen. Just magical to watch the lady come to life on the canvas. It was like she was looking out at us into to our souls. I was mesmerised. Thankyou so much for sharing your incredible art work. hugs Glenne

Omgosh your sharing is a beauty to behold! Watching the nose materialize was amazing! (I can't do noses no matter how much I try). She's beautiful

I just can’t tell you how happy I am to have found your videos. And you are a great teacher. Once again beautiful work and thank you for sharing

where have I been all these years? I just found you a few days ago and I am ever so pleased. you are so talented and so informative, explain everything so well. So much to learn, thank you. and the girl looks just like you :) New sub.

Great video from a wonderful channel. Art books have provided me a much-needed escape from real life. I have my easy chair set up with a desk, a lamp, a blanket and a cup of coffee. I spent many hours with dragons, unicorns, space battles, pixies, knights, and now with my National Geographic books, the vast undersea world of the coral reefs. My art books are the best investments I ever made. My 3 favorite books are: - Wonderworks by Michael Whelan - Infinite Worlds by Vincent DiFate - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

You are a fountain of knowledge and your passion for art is sooooo infectious. Love it.

You are so inspiring! I am collecting all the tools -found cool eraser today - or yesterday its 3h47 in the morning in South Africa - cant sleep so I decided to watch your stuff and get happy and inspired! I will I hope have the courage to send you pics next year of how I have progressed! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

I absolutely love this one. Now that I've done your mixed media challenge I think I'm going to jump in and give it a try. You have such amazing imagination and talent, Karen.

I just love your work. You sure are a great teacher, i'm so glad to have found your videos. I'm getting better because of you. thank you Karen.

I have used Gesso for years, decades, but never the way you do with the Stabilo, can't wait to try! I am new to your channel and could kick myself for not finding you sooner! I LOVE your style! Thanks Ms Karen!!

Thank you so much Karen . Your explanation on the amazing effects you can achieve by just using the different gessos with the Stabilo , is both extremely helpful and inspiring . I really enjoyed watching her come to life . Kind regards - Judi - Australia

I am looking for an answer on whether or not I need gesso, but totally sidetracked by how gorgeous your painting is!!! So, here I am, and you answered my exact questions! Thank you!

Your enthusiasm is contagious!!

So beautiful. Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

Clear gesso is perfect for preparing coloring books to accept watercolors. Great video, Thank you 🙏

I love GESSO!! Thanks for the lesson!

You make it look so easy. Beautiful

This is really helpful, I appreciate you taking the time to make this.

This is so amazing!!! I could watch all the day and every day I learn a lot!!! Thank you so much for sharing this gift you have and inspire me and making me feel more comfortable to try something new!

This is amazing. I'm sitting here actually thinking this would be a very helpful exercise to get use to light and shadow placement. Just a black and white portrait. How clever and perfect for a beginner like me

Love seizing the sketch first instead of the background, sometimes I like to start subject first, so it really got me thinking about what to do next

I love black gesso for as a base for oil painting, a black canvass is far more approach-able than scary white😃

Thank you so much for sharing the techniques used in rendering this beautiful painting!

Stunning; loved the whole process. You are amazingly talented:) WOW!

With a hint of humor! Gorgeous! 👊🤟

i love your channel thank you for your beautiful personality you cheer me up

Really loved watching this! I will have to try the 3 gessos, looks like fun!!

Absolutely beautiful!

A classical, musical , artistic performance, you brought happiness, sadness, excitement...bravo on making me feel happy!! 📝🎢🎻🎷🎨🎨🎶☺️ Oh my ,your artistic ability is entertaining and enjoyable..This piece included the words and the music!! Often need just one but this included both!♥️

Thank you for using you tube videos as your art videos has captions so I can follow along as a deaf artist.. many artists still do not caption everything so I miss out.. I have one of your early books.. followed some of your tutorials thank you.. I love your enthusiasm and that you share so freely many tips and helps too..

You are amazing. I just watched your video about how to do eyes. I really thought you just went all over your drawings until you said you went from one eye to the other. I was watching this and saw how you did that during your drawing. Thank you for sharing. I love your videos.

What a pleasure to watch you. The gesso info was really appreciated. The end result was fabulous! Thanks for sharing!

LOVE THIS!

AWESOME - a master crafter at work :) Incredible that is actually only takes 3 - and oh well a load of other little things :) BUt what you did with just these 3 gessos - RESPECT! Loved it loved it loved it :)

Just discovered your channel and so glad I have. Just Wow incredible piece of artwork.xx

I,m allways scared ti try mixed media ,you make it look so easy ,its beautiful Karen

Thank you Karen for sharing. You are so talented. Love your different videos. Have a wonderful and blessed day.

She is gorgeous!

Love your art

Thanks for the helpful info and you're so right about the black gesso. I used it for first time today in my altered book journal as the background for a Halloween piece. It's amazing! Could you maybe do a talk through video on how you make the eyes so beautiful on your faces?

Beautiful Karen.

Karen, this drawing/painting was so inspiring...I hope to be able to draw a girl like this one day..she is just beautiful. Thanks so much for all the videos you do. :)

This is fabulous Karen 😍😘

From a beginner's point of view that was very helpful information & inspiring at the same time. Thank you!

Wow!!! Beautifully done. Thank you for sharing!!!

I just found your channel a few weeks ago and LOVE your videos. Watching this girl come to life was just amazing . I am a want to be artist .... no skills .... I just got your first book and have been practicing faces.... Which one of your courses do you think would be most beneficial for me ?..... I do love mixed media... watercolor... attempting to draw faces :). Thank you for time and your videos ... Love each and every one of them!

Amazing!

Good addiction. I wonder if all these materials are available in India. Never done craft work but would love to give it a try. Simply beautiful

You are absolutely amazing. She is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

WOW Amazing as always!! Thanks for sharing Deanna

Loved the video. So talented. Very informative. Thanks!

Beautiful shading. So talented!

so beautiful. love it too bits. just love watching the process thanks for sharing. greatly appreciated. : )

Stunning. ❤

You are a fabulous artist, I know you know but had to tell you anyway. Love your work !!!

Just WOW! As always... Hugs, Lin

Beautiful work!! Liked and Subscribed💜

Oh and I bought clear gesso too!!!!

She looks like you Karen. Great job Thanks!

I love your painting thanks

Great job really Beautiful!

Love this!!! You're great -thanks for sharing!

Wow! You are incredible!

You’re simply amazing!

Oh my goodness!!! Thank you for explaining all this…I was so confused!! And yes! I don’t like the clear gritty Gesso either….so, did I hear you say I don’t need to prime my canvas? They already come primed?

Good lesson (thanks) and great painting! Marina

So incredible!

Complimenti è stato bellissimo vederti all'opera 💖

Semplicemente meraviglioso🤩🤩🤩 tanti saluti Karen😘

I was afraid to use gesso on the top of the face I am paiting. Thank you for your video!

Incredible

i like all types, depends what I am doing. Thank you x

I love you painting

So beautiful 😍

this is amazing!

Your amazing, I wish I could do that I tried but not quite there yet!

I love clear gesso but like you said it has its place - I like using it when I am doing a more abstract fun style art page that’s more texture based then shape based - I would hate it for more face / subject matter style pages. I am not going to lie I never thought to mix it for skin tones ... it should be common sense but never thought of it! So thanks for that lol!

Awesome

Amazing

When mixing skintones use zinc white, not titanium white. Zinc white rules. I like clear gesso when I want to use coloured or pastel pencils on top of acrylics.

What type of stabilo pencil did you use please so I can give this a try. Also what type of brushes did you use with the gesso to do the face? Thanks so much 🙏

Wow! Gorgeous!! 😍USA

Lovely and helpful. As a raw beginner I have to ask what part water plays in the application of the gessos.

Omg perfect fingers

Love it....🙋you can make a video painting with color prism Berol pencils? Please please please 🙏

I got some whit gesso in a jar, and it's pretty thick and opaque (compared to what I've seen you use). Am I using too much? Can it be watered down?

Doesn’t the gesso ruin your paint brushes? And what did you do this project on? Was it on watercolor paper or a canvas board? I’m wanting to attempt this. I skipped it when I first came across it in the Mixed Media Society class, but I’ve gone back to this module because I have stabillo alls now. This looks super hard and advanced.i know I can’t do the hand for sure! But the skin tone looks very difficult too.

I love mixed media. I just Created a Facebook page called Anita DeVall/ Frith.

Stunningly beautiful. I never thought to use gesso, clever. I’ll have to give it a try..😊 Someone else asked if the stabilo will run if you try to seal the artwork.....have you had any experience, good or bad with this?

Oh Karen.....(HUGE Sigghhh) Has anyone recently told you how exceptionally talented YOU ARE??? The explanation of gesso was fab. However, I became totally.... (Golly, can't think of the right word) ~ entranced, lost, mesmerized (& other appropriations) by you, painting. Along with the piano music & your brush strokes, I was totally gone. The world & almost all worries were swept up in the utter beauty of her & your effortless creativity. Her eyes?!!!! So, I have no idea if I've just written a whole load of blah. I blame you, of course, lol. I told you a little while ago, I'm watching every video but am struggling to interact, on any level. Still the case but I felt compelled to at least try. The result is probably a "Hot Mess" but I am "Not Sorry!" I also appreciate that I'm not actually creating anything myself so am a bad student. If I could paint a portrait as exquisitely..... ugh, I'm stopping now, getting on my own nerves, goodness knows what you must think. There. I tried. You ARE AWSOME. Tyfs. Squidges as always for Rosie and Zoe. Byeeee. Crazy Caroline. 😳😽🎨✅

WOW WOW WOWZA!

Is there a big difference between Liquitex Basics Gesso and their Professional Gesso? There's a huge price difference, so I'm assuming there is.

Which best gesso color for black and white portrait on canvas ?

loved your video, what did you use ti glue the printed paper and flower, clear gesso? how long does it take for that gesso to dry so you can paint over it ? thank you.

I love

thanks for this video ;) great info .... btw I like your neaklace, where did you find it, or how did you make? ;)

Karen could you please tell me which Stabilo black pencil you use please?