R&F : Encaustic Gesso

If you are looking for a quick and easy way to create a white ground for encaustic painting, R&F Encaustic Gesso is specially designed for the purpose. This ready-to-use white ground is a modern, water-based version of the traditional, but painstakingly laborious, rabbit skin glue/chalk gesso method. It is also a great alternative to the time-consuming mounting of paper on panel.

R&F Encaustic Gesso is a brushable ground that dries to a ready-to-paint absorbent surface. This is the easiest and quickest way to prepare a ground for encaustic painting. It differs from standard acrylic gessos by having a higher proportion of solid to binder, making it highly absorbent with excellent adhesion to the rigid artists’ surfaces used for this technique.