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How to use gesso in a sentence

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In his later pictures he began to paint exuberantly on linen canvas, primed only with gesso, loosely woven by a local sail maker.
For softer and real gesso use gypsum or calcium sulfate in the form of terra alba, alabaster gypsum or Italian gesso.
The gesso process comes first, and then the placement of the broken glass pieces, each about the size of a quarter.
A panel painting might have a background of stamped, gilded gesso and enamels and precious stones in its frame.
The gesso ground is sanded smooth so that acrylic glazes bead up and acquire a high-resolution look while emphasizing the picture plane.
By the fifteenth century, many Western artists were using it in frescoes or in gesso on wood panel paintings.
To make them, Gissler first builds up layer upon smooth layer of gesso on a thick wood panel, achieving a dense, glassy surface.
Whether based on chalk or gesso, the aim was to apply sufficient layers to fill the woodgrain and other imperfections.
Each field is built up of gesso, each layer sanded to a flawless finish, the last one airbrushed smoother than any shell.
Next, we painted the surface with white gesso, which was used to reflect the colors of the glass tesserae back into the room.
All of the images are on white grounds, with the gesso petering out as it reaches the edges of the canvas.
This means adding depth to each cut so that after the application of gesso, bole, and gold leaf the carved elements still have crisp definition.
Sometimes the wood surface was prepared with a coating of gesso or isinglass diluted in water with a little white pigment added.
Once the frame had been moulded, paper-thin gold leaf was applied to the wood over a thin layer of gesso plaster.
The entire panel was then covered in gesso and gold leaf while the image was painted on the sunken surface.
Pastel, gesso, watercolor, gouache, pencil, charcoal, acrylic, oil and collage all contribute to the way she constructs her images.
Emulating the old masters, he used tempera and oil over gesso on wood, then covered the surface with transparent glaze.
Rapidly daubed abstract surfaces, these colored backgrounds often dissolve into areas of white gesso.
She pays great attention to the surface texture of her paintings, working primarily with gesso, acrylic and tempera.
Natural Pigments offers terra alba imported from Cennino Cennini's hometown in northern Italy and near the same location where he undoubtedly obtained his own gesso.
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Figs. 15 and 16 are mirrors decorated with gesso ornament, to which, however, little justice can be done in a photograph.
Both frame and picture are in a bad state, the gesso having scaled off in places.
The plaster, in this case, is to be considered as the gesso ground on panel or canvas.
One will take naturally to oil-painting, another may 68 find clay or gesso her means of artistic expression.
It was probably painted in water-colours with white of egg or glue on a medium of gesso.
She makes her own gesso, the base for applying the gold leaf used in most of her pieces.
No color is so noble as the color of a good painting on canvas or gesso.
The evidence is in favour of white grounds, of size and gesso.
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