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Opus Essential Black Gessoes

Opus Essential Black Gessoes

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The dark side has never looked so bright!

Opus Essential Black Gesso provides excellent opacity, coverage, and adhesion due to its high levels of carbon, calcite grit and acrylic resin.

This flexible, water-resistant gesso is an outstanding primer for cotton or linen canvas, wood, and paper, in preparation for painting in acrylics and oils. It also works well to create an underpainting over a white gessoed canvas, and may also be left visible to form a background for your work.

Its deep black colour and matte finish lends itself beautifully to the creation of striking landscapes and moody chiaroscuro portraits. Add some pop to your paintings by working with bright, interference, or metallic paints, gel pens or acrylic paint markers. Transparent colours mixed with a tiny bit of white look rich and deep on a black surface.

Directions: With a brush or roller, apply gesso to a clean surface. The first coat may be diluted with water (1:1) for maximum surface dispersion. Apply 2–4 coats of gesso, allowing gesso to dry thoroughly between each coat.

Caution: do not allow in freezing temperatures.

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Opus Essential Black Gessoes
Black / 500mlOPUGK500
Black / 500mlOPUGK500
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$21.99/ea
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$21.99/ea
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Opus Essential Black Gessoes
Black / 1LOPUGK1
Black / 1LOPUGK1
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$41.99/ea
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$41.99/ea
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Opus Essential Black Gessoes
Black / 3.6 LOPUGK36
Black / 3.6 LOPUGK36
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$92.99/ea
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$92.99/ea
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Black gesso primer praised for excellent coverage and surface quality. Customers said it creates a great tooth/grain for painting and works well with acrylics and pastels. One customer received a previously opened jar with missing product. May cause temporary warping during drying but flattens when dry.

  • Excellent coverage and a lot of tooth/grain to work from
  • Great coverage, perfectly flat when dry
  • Good quality. Coverage is great and provides a good surface for acrylic paint.
  • 5 stars: 4 (80%)
  • 4 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 1 (20%)
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Jules D. (Vancouver, CA)
Black / 1L
The gesso had been previously opened and about 2

The gesso had been previously opened and about 2 inches of gesso was missing. There was no paper/plastic covering top to peel off. The cap turned easily so that should have been my first clue but this had never happened to me before because I had always trusted Opus.
I have bought jars in the past,(look at my history of purchases) so this was obvious a return you took back before putting it on the shelf for re-sale. I trusted that it was new. What a huge disappointment it was.
I did not complain or return it because it had been very difficult to find parking and walk to the store and I had no energy to do so again.
The easel was just ok, nothing to get excited about. I see now how overpriced it is for what you get. It’s a disappointment but requires too much time and energy to find parking again to return it. Maybe Opus has been around too long to continue its former great level of service and quality.

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Carol H. (Langley, CA)
Black / 500ml
Excellent coverage and a lot of tooth/grain to

Excellent coverage and a lot of tooth/grain to work from

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D.V.B. (Vancouver, CA)
Black / 1L
Black Gesso

I love it. It covers great; much easier facing a blank black canvas than a white, though Iuse both.

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Shirley H. (Surrey, CA)
Black / 500ml
Great coverage bought with illustration board to create a black surface for my pan pastels

Great coverage bought with illustration board to create a black surface for my pan pastels. It started to warp the board a bit as it was drying but then when dry was perfectly flat.

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DONNA W. (North Vancouver, CA)
Black / 500ml
OpusEssential black gesso

Good quality. Coverage is great and provides a good surface for acrylic paint.