I’ve been having difficulty getting good results with Liquitex professional acrylic gesso.
I have tried applying three coats to canvas board, but the surface ends up feeling like smooth plastic.
It doesn’t have the chalky, dry, absorbent feeling I expect from a gessoed surface.
It’s as if the gesso has no chalk in it at all.
I have tried shaking the bottle well, using a brush or a smooth rubber liquitex tool.
The results are always worse than using a regular pre-gessoed canvas board from Winsor Newton or Arteza. Those pre-gessoed boards feel chalky like I’d expect, without needing to gesso at all.
Has anyone else experienced this? I know I should probably throw out that gesso but I’m really curious if I’m doing something obviously wrong?