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Your cart is empty.Liquitex offers the broadest range of acrylic mediums to inspire creativity at every stage of the painting process. Surface Prep Mediums are used to seal prime and add tooth (for color adhesion) to all surfaces such as canvas wood paper and metal. This same preparation is used for both acrylic and oil paint. Our professional gessoes usually take just one coat, and adding Liquitex Soft Body color to any gesso creates customized tints and primers. Liquitex Clear Gesso Surface Prep Medium is an ideal high tooth for pastel oil pastel graphite and charcoal. Excellent ground for acrylic and oil paint. Mix with acrylic color to have a tinted ground. Dries clear to translucent depending on thickness. Excellent base coat primer for many applications, including murals. Can be applied to any material or surface that will accept traditional acrylic media, such as canvas, paper, wood, etc. Liquitex Surface Prep Mediums are lightweight, non-toxic, and dry to a water-resistant, non-yellowing surface. APPLICATION: For canvas, paper, wood, or any clean porous non-oily surface. Sizes and primes while maintaining the original appearance of the surface. Provides paper with good tooth for chalk and oil pastel techniques. Mix with a very small amount of transparent or translucent acrylic color to tint the ground, while maintaining transparency. Visit our Liquitex Amazon Storefront for full product assortment.
Francisco O Lopez
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2024
Goes on white. Dries clear. Easy to paint on.
Josué Jair Mejía Camacho
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
Buen producto
Lauren Pritchard
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2024
Exactly what I was expecting. Great to use on wood, or canvas to prep the material for painting. It does dry clear as long as it’s thin layers and doesn’t all build up in one place, so be careful with that. Otherwise really happy with it!
Maria
Reviewed in Spain on April 26, 2024
No amarillea y cubre muy buen para poder pintar por encima
Mary G
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024
This product spreads easily and works exactly as ezxpected. I’ll be buying it again
Martine
Reviewed in Belgium on April 11, 2024
Produit utilisé pour enduire toile de lin et jute. Ok pour le lin mais très mauvais pour la jute.Temps de livraison beaucoup trop long
nico
Reviewed in Italy on November 11, 2023
Questo tipo di gesso "TRASPARENTE" della LIQUITEX è veramente un prodotto ECCEZIONALE per la preparazione della tela da dipingere con colori acrilici, ad olio e Alchidici.Per una tela già pronta basta una mano.Il pacco è arrivato nei tempi previsti.
JH de Hartog
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2021
Good consitancy... dries nice and clear with out too much shine
Julie M Brown
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2020
Its far too expensive but absolutely necessary for paint pouring. So use it frugally. It really does help with a base for the paint on the canvas. Ya gotta have it. Liquitex is the best!
Kara Stenberg
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2018
I have been experimenting with painting acrylic on wood where I let the wood grain show. However some wood won't take paint without some kind of medium to bond the two. This is where this Liquitex clear gesso came in.I did a test spot on the back of the panel I was painting, in varying thicknesses. Like the instructions say, unless used very, very thinly the coat will become milky white and lose transparency. I used it on cedar panel that was finely sanded. (I won't know for years if the oils of the cedar will cause the gesso to come off but it should stick far better than the paint put directly on the wood.) As far as the appearance goes, I can clearly see the wood grain and the gesso provided a very gritty tooth, like a fine grit sandpaper, that grabbed the paint well.All in all I am really impressed; I think this may be one of the only transparent gessos made specifically for acrylic paint so for now I'm sticking to it. Attached is an in-progress photo of the panel I used this on; you can clearly still see the wood grain through the gesso.*NOTE: nowhere on the bottle or on the Liquitex website does it say this medium can be used with oils, in case anyone was wondering.
Julie
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018
The Clear Gesso is perfect for creating a tooth for pastels. This can be applied to cardboard for practicing pastels. Why waste money on fancy paper when anything can become a surface with a tooth for drawing with pastels. I have used it on cut up cereal boxes, plain boxes that Amazon ships their products in (great way to recycle!), but mostely now, I use it on sheets of watercolor paper. It feels like a fine grit sandpaper, which is what I like. If you have not tried this yet, I highly recommend that you do. I hope this tip helps to save a little money!! Take care and be well!!
AnRLT
Reviewed in Mexico on May 19, 2018
Ciertamente ayuda a que la tinta o las pinturas no traspasen el papel pero el acabado después de secar es rugoso, como si tuviera arenilla y no me funciona bien si uso colores acuarelables.Cumple el objetivo principal para lo que lo compré pero no me satisface completamente el resultado final. Solo me lo quedo porque realmente lo necesito y no encuentro otro producto de este tipo en el mercado.Sinceramente por el precio no lo recomiendo
Tena
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016
This is the first Gesso I've used, so I can't compare it to other brands. I used this on an adult coloring book to prepare the paper for wet mediums. I painted it on a few test pages and let it dry (didn't take long but I live in a warm climate). The page feels rough, almost like a sand paper feel, it definitely added tooth to the paper. It also slightly changed the color of the paper, it's a little more off-white now. I tested the following mediums on top of the clear Gesso:Prismacolor color pencils: Worked really well. Was able to apply a lot of water and blend. I could even go in after the watercolor was dry with more water and re-work it. Was able to use lots of water without destroying the non-watercolor paper.Koi Watercolors: Same as the watercolor pencils, as far as how it behaved.Several types of colored pencils: Didn't work well, I'm not a fan of using pencils over the Gesso. The lines were rougher and hard to blend and control. They created a lot of colored dust too so that could stain the picture if you aren't careful.Sticklers: Able to apply where needed, no issues.Acrylic paint (Americana): Was able to use acrylic without water, and also with water as more of a wash.Iridescent Medium: Mixed with watercolor, made the applied color very shimmery. Didn't give any issues over the Gesso.Art Masking Fluid: Worked fine on top of the Gesso. Still protected the paper from the watercolor, and when I pulled it off I could still feel the Gesso on the paper underneath.
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