Acrylic gesso not only protects raw canvas from the deteriorating effects of oil paints but also creates a smooth and resilient surface that allows oils and acrylics to perform at their very best.

Gesso has an absorbent quality that prevents paint from bleeding or seeping when it's used as a primer on canvas, panel, paper, or other substrates. Before creating a painting of any kind—whether ...

PORTSMOUTH — It's that mother-of-invention scenario; father in this case. When Button Factory painter Marshall Carbee, of Rye Beach, decided to clean up his act and rid his studio of as many ...