GAMBLIN OIL GROUND application step by step (how to apply OIL PAINTING PRIMER/ GESSO vs OIL PRIMER)

If I do not have to size, then I don't. Why spend the extra time and cost?

Great tips! I also use oil gesso to cover old oil paintings I don't like so much so I can re-use the panel or canvas.

If I may, how are these cans resealed? I assume you could probably do it like a paint can, but it would be awful to open one and find out the hard way that it is not possible.

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From the official description of the ground: "Please remember that any absorbent substrate such as canvas or paper should be sized before the application of Gamblin Oil Painting Ground. This will seal the surface so that the oil does not leech into it or cause it to rot. You can use acrylic size, rabbit skin glue, or acrylic primer for this purpose; Gamblin recommend you use the Gamblin PVA size." So literally almost everything in this video is just wrong.

Thank you!! Great video.

Gamblin's website did not show if the ground needs stirred as you did here...thank you for that & your visual demo of how oil ground is better for oil painting...I have an old 24 x 36 gesso primed stretched canvas to add the ground to so I can use oil paints & have them remain glossy. Do you think one coat of ground would be enough? Also will the ground help tighten the canvas? Already used steam on the back to tighten it & may also use wedges before the ground. Thank you!

Hi. Thanks for the tips. Can you use polymer and then acrylic gesso under oil painting?

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Thank you boo!

Nice and simple to understand, thank you.

Should I apply it to the rough side or the smooth side of the board?

Hmmm, I sized five or six panels a few months ago with Gamblin PVA SIZE, and then applied Gamblin Oil Ground on top of that once the size was dry. I had always sized canvases and linen, but never panels. I did NOT have a good result by doing that to the panels, unfortunately. The Oil Ground pealed off the the board when I applied oil paint to them when oil sketching on them, about 10 days later. It was a mess. Not sure exactly why that happened, but this is the only time I've had such a thing happen, and it happed on all six boards that were sized....all of them. The boards I used I also sanded before sizing. They were the masonite hard wood boards 1/4" thick from Home Depot. Thanks.

Good tip and nice video!!

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Great tip Brian. I’ve been thinking of getting into oil primed surfaces and wondered about this. If you were priming linen or canvas of some kind would you use the same process?

Thank you for sharing this video…. It is really useful 👌👌👍👍