Matisse Mm36 250ml Encaustic Gesso

Discover the Matisse Mm36 250ml Encaustic Gesso, an essential product for artists seeking the perfect ground for encaustic painting. This permanent, flexible water-based gesso delivers a high tooth finish, making it the ideal choice for canvas, wood panels, paper, and board. Designed for encaustic artists, the Matisse High Tooth Gesso dries to a bright white matte surface that offers superior bite and absorbency compared to standard gessos. This unique formulation avoids acrylic resins, preventing a too-smooth surface and ensuring that your wax medium adheres beautifully.

Creating your own encaustic gesso is undeniably a daunting and messy task, often leading to mold issues. Matisse Mm36 eliminates these worries while allowing you to customize your substrate effortlessly. With its easy application, you can achieve the perfect texture—ideal for a variety of encaustic techniques. This economical product offers both efficiency and high performance, ensuring your artwork remains stable and vibrant for years to come. Elevate your encaustic painting experience with Matisse Mm36 250ml Encaustic Gesso, available now at Smartfox NZ.

Matisse MM36 is permanent, flexible water-based ground, with a high tooth finish, for canvas, board, wood panels or paper. High Tooth Gesso dries to a bright white, matte surfacethat provides much more bite and absorbency than astandard gesso, making it a recommended ground forencaustic work or as a soft and oil pastel primer. While it is possible to make your own encausticgesso, to prepare your substrate, it can also be a time consuming, messy and expensive process. Homemade encaustic gesso must also be used within a fewdays as it is susceptible to mould growth. In response to this problem, Matisse has created MM36 High Tooth Gesso (Encaustic). This unique product provides an easy alternative to creating a surfacefor encaustic painting. Used straight from the container, High Tooth Gesso dries to a white, matte surface that provides much more bite than standardgessoes. More importantly, it is water-based and contains no acrylic resins that would make the surfacetoo smooth and refined for the application ofwax.Although pre-treated encaustic painting boards are available, using Matisse High Tooth Gesso allowsthe artist to customize the surface sizing of their project and is also more economical. The techniques and methods of encaustic painting are many, and the us eof Matisse High Tooth Gesso catersfor them all and ensures that your artwork will remain stable for as long as possible.