Re: Other PVAc primers/sealers. LIQUITEX CLEAR GESSO

[phritz phantom <phritz-phantom@web.de>]

loris, paul,

i'm not sure whether the clear gesso is based on acrylic or something 
else, hence the question if someone has tried it before.
liquitex won't say what's in it. so probably it's not acryl. but who knows.

phritz


Loris Medici schrieb:
> To my knowing (and limited experience), anything acrylic won't work
> unless you add something porous into it such as calcium carbonate,
> marble dust, pumice dust, silica fume ect. ect.... Clear gesso is
> usual gesso minus calcium carbonate, titanium dioxide and other
> fillers (except for transparent/translucent silica fume maybe,
> completely speculating here). Anyway, since acrylic gesso with all
> those fillers doesn't work, I'd bet that clear acrylic gesso would not
> too.
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> 2009/10/13 phritz phantom <phritz-phantom@web.de>:
>   
> > ...
> > did anyone ever try the liquitex clear gesso (not the normal white one)?
> > i can't find any info on its ingredients, not even in the datasheet. the
> > normal gesso is labelled as "acrylic" in the datasheet, so i'd guess that
> > the clear gesso is based on a different substance.
> > ...
> >     
>