| His highly crafted paintings consist of 30 to 50 smoothed and sanded coats of oil, graphite and pigment layered over gessoed wood. |
| The paintings were all begun with a black gessoed canvas into which Coe introduced color after working first in dark grays. |
| For one thing, she painted on gessoed canvas instead of using the acrylic-soaked-into-raw-canvas method that Noland, Louis and others favored. |
| Hoffman-Kowal has arranged five rectangles within a format of three squares, including the border of white gessoed paper that is the foundation of this work. |
| To transfer their sketches to the bags, students used pencils to cover the backs of them with graphite, then placed them over the gessoed area with a small piece of tape. |
| Other versions are realized in egg tempera on gessoed panels. |
