Golden Acrylic Ground for Pastels is a 100% acrylic medium designed to prepare surfaces for the application of pastels, charcoal and other art media where a coarse tooth is desired. It contains finely ground sand (silica) in a pure acrylic emulsion.

Acrylic Ground for Pastels can be applied to paper, canvas, wood or any primed support. This allows almost limitless applications for media typically confined to standard papers.

Acrylic Ground for Pastels can be used as a toothy, gritty ground for many different media, including:

• Dry media--soft pastels, graphite pencils, colored chalks, charcoal, powdered charcoal
• Water-based media--water-soluble pastels, colored pencils, pastel pencils, wax crayons, watercolor pencils, acrylic paints
• Oil-based media--oil pastels, oil sticks, paint sticks, ink sticks, pigment sticks, oil paints