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Composition Painting Tip: Add Color to Primer for a Background

A helpful painting tip submitted by a fellow artist.

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When starting a new painting or priming a canvas, use white gesso primer but add a little color, such as yellow ocher, and you will instantly have covered the canvas with a color for the background.
Tip from: Bob Moore


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