gesso in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Contemporary grounds include acrylic gesso, gouache and commercially prepared claycoat papers.
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These include drawings and sketches as well as works and bozzetti in terracotta, plasticine, and gesso and some sculptures in marble and bronze.
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The medal is a "pastiglia" imitation of a real metal medal, made of gilded gesso and inset into the portrait.
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He would build up the white gesso, at times adding oil paint, until it could almost be mistaken for collage.
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The colour of gesso was usually white or off-white.
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The distinctive feature of these paintings is the "gesso" work, to which gold foil is applied.
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The gesso layer will tend to draw the oil paint into the porous surface, depending on the thickness of the gesso layer.
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Oil-based drybrushing can also be scrubbed onto paper, canvas or absorbent gesso with stiff bristle brushes to impart smooth airbrushed or pastel-style effects.
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This is used on any smooth board, ideally hardboard, which is primed with "gesso".
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