If you're unwilling to use acrylic gesso,
then find a copy of the painter's bible:
ARTIST's HANDBOOK, by Ralph Mayer
and follow the intstructions you'll find there for
rabbit-skin glue and white lead priming.
And good luck finding either real rabbit-skin
glue OR white lead priming! Ralph Mayer covers
priming wood panels as well.
My own opinion,based on study research and choosing to produce a body of work
instead of a few pictures a year. Hope this makes some sense to you.Good luck.
You should be able to just skip all this confusion, no?
(I'm not a painter).
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Naked Angel Art
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"Welcome To Heaven"
>I've painted pro for over 30 years and I've found most advice books are
>written by less than great painters
Are you saying that you've never consulted the
"painter's bible" - Ralph Mayer's ARTISTS HANDBOOK?
Surely you wouldn't include it in the "how to"
category of books published by individual artists?
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Spes Bona, obsecro, subventa mihi, exime ex hoc miseram metu - Plautus
>I have had no problem finding rabbit-skin glue.
REAL rabbit skin, or hide glue "hiding"
behind the rabbit label? I do notice
that the vendor I buy from carries it
as "rabbit skin" so I have to demur, and
accept that maybe it really is. I don't
use it, and never have, so I was going
by what other artists have told me about
the hide glue being passed off as rabbit.
I have painted for 15 years now and have used used acrylic primer for the
past 10 without problem nor worry. It is true that 'old masters' used rabbit
skin glue, danced naked round a black candle whilst thrashing themselves
with an olive branch -AND!!, can you believe it - ground and mixed their own
pigment (or at least their assistant did) but that was 500 years ago, before
artists discovered acrylic!! Acrylic Primer and tubes of oil paint, this
leave just enuogh energy left to try and do a good painting (alas it is this
last part that most people neglect!)
Jolly