GamblinOil Painting Ground 8 oz.

Works good on canvas

Works real good

This is really good stuff. I use it to cover paintings I don't like. it covers with one application I do mix it with odorless mineral spirits to speed up drying. I will definitely buy again.

Good use of primer ground for oil painting.

As a person who has been painting in oil since college, graduated in 1981, I always wondered why the acrylic gesso wasn't working for me… I did start painting in acrylic so I knew the medium… but couldnt figure out how others waren't having my problem… and why my oils looked like acrylic…Anywho when I discovered this, an oil based gesso, I went doh?!?! Why hadn't anyone told me about this, especially my instructors at SVA,where I went…Now this item works beautifully.My complaint is the lid that covers it, the metal lid's edge, is a bit flimsy. And could be a problem in the future when I want to reopen it and or close it… basciallly worrying that the contents might dry out.

I use this ground for overtop my old paintings I wasn’t happy with and then am able to reuse the canvas and paint something else.

Hard to give this a star rating - it's a beautiful ground, really best-in-class... but each coat takes days and days to dry. To get the proper three or four coats, you need at least 2 weeks. I've tried putting a fan on it, even a low-wattage heater... days!!!I'm using this product as a ground for liquid photo emulsion on canvas - gessos haven't worked for me in that application. My workaround has been several coats of gesso, sand between, then two thinned-down coats of gamblin. You can do all the gesso coats you want in one day, so it gets my canvas prep down to under a week.

Oil primer ground worked beautifully