MATISSE BACKGROUND PAINTS      

A highly pigmented "low tooth" gesso.

Build your art on a strong foundation. Matisse Background Colors are all-purpose pure acrylics that can be applied to almost any surface.

APPLICATION:

Used directly onto wood, the Background Color will not only cover and create a great surface to paint on, but will also seal the surface because it has a built-in sealer.

All Matisse Background Colors are especially designed and selected for traditional folk art techniques, interior domestic decoration as well as canvas and board application.

Matisse Background Colors can also be used with stencils, design painting, or simply as a flat decorative wall and ceiling paint. Apply direct from the jar and clean up with water. Matisse Background spreads easily with brush or roller and dries fast to a matt-velvet finish. Matisse Background Colors make an ideal colored gesso. Matisse Background Colors come in 250ml "stack up jars" with a selection of the most popular colors available in 1 litre pails

MEDIUMS:

Use MM26 Transparent Gesso mixed with the Matisse Background Colors to give a colored primer with extra "tooth" for painting and especially as a pastel primer. (Hint: Vary the ratio of MM26 Transparent Gesso mixed with Matisse Background Color to vary the degree of roughness or "tooth" in the primed surface.)