Michelle Ward always have cool challenge for Crusader to experiment every month.
CRUSADE 25 : Properties of Gesso.

My experiment
(i) Using sponge to dab on gesso, let's dry. Apply acrylic paint, wipe for the excess paint.
Let's dry. Using the sponge to wipe again.

See the white dots.

(ii) Tear and paste the magazine page to the page. Lightly brush with gesso. Apply acrylic paint. Let's dry. Then, another layer of gesso. Spray some embossing powder. Using heat gun to melt the powder.

(iii) Texture gesso - learned from
Trish Bee. Instruction see
here.

(iv) Gesso under colour & gesso above colour.