Well, I was thinking while I was putting the gesso on the canvas.

Plaster or gesso is used, giving a rather dry, dusty texture.

One work was egg tempera on a gesso foundation, the other a dry-brush watercolor.

Let me see how you did with the gesso.

Gum and rose water are also prescribed, and again, gesso, white of egg, and honey.

Staff member at Manawatu Museum Services Ltd applying gesso to the timber frame for A Dream.

It consists of a small number of stainless steel sculptures and many small-scale tempera on gesso paintings.

Regular gesso smells like chalk.

Wet dog is acrylic gesso.

Then you do another coat of the gesso and sand it again, and a third coat and sand it again.

Look out for art by Marianne Wolf, a Frenchwoman who paints gesso on wood animal icons, such as the image pictured here.

The next day, Monday, I worked in the studio sanding the gesso panel I would use for my painting of the covered bridge.

I made sure she had what she needed, then went back to the studio to continue preparing a gesso board for my new painting.

Rather than working directly on the wall in gesso, he and four assistants stretched large canvases which they painted and mounted in the enormous space.

Finally, a pair of girondole gilded mirrors with gesso rope decoration sold after auction for the top estimate of £1,500.

Similarly, a large 19th century gilt and gesso wall mirror in the Chippendale style sold for £15,000 -much more than its estimate of £3,500-£5,000