You’ll need to prepare a rigid surface for painting with casein. Casein is a great underpainting medium for egg tempera and for oil. Below are some recipes you’ll need. In place of the gesso panel, you could also use paper mounted to a panel. The in-process images below show a painting made on watercolor paper mounted to an MDF panel. You’ll see the texture of the cold-pressed watercolor paper showing through, as the paint is thinly applied.
This glue is used in traditional chalk gesso as well as a sizing layer to…
Selection of colors is complex and subjective. I’ll offer here a broad and somewhat concise…
The term gesso simply refers to chalk, gypsum, or plaster. The term came to be…
Casein is a paint made from milk protein. It can be used like watercolor or…
