Gesso in a sentence as a noun

[edit] I forgot about gesso, that isn't cheap either.

If it's good enough for the Guggenheim...A year or so later, we bought four canvases, some gesso and some white paint, and made four white paintings, and upon hanging them up, found that it actually looked really nice.

Gesso definitions

noun

gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared)