For painters who think in paint

Your eye sees the color.
Gessoed mixes it.

Sample any tone from your reference photo. Get a precise recipe built from the exact paints in your studio. No guessing. No wasted paint. No interruption to the work that actually matters.

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How it works

From reference photo
to palette in seconds

Every mix is built around your paints — not a generic palette. Gessoed knows your studio as well as you do.

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Build your studio
Add every paint you own — brand, color name, swatch. Gessoed recognizes 274 colors across Golden, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton Galleria, M. Graham, Matisse, Holbein, and more.
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Sample from your reference
Upload any reference photo and tap the color you're working toward. Zoom in for precision. Label it as a highlight, midtone, shadow, or reflected light.
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Mix with confidence
Get a recipe with exact part ratios, built only from what you own. The reasoning behind every choice is shown — value, temperature, chroma — so you learn while you work.

"Your attention goes where the painting demands it. Gessoed handles the rest."

Gessoed is a tool for serious painters — not a replacement for your eye, your hand, or your knowledge. It's there when your focus belongs somewhere else.

Built for how artists actually work

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

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Your palette, not a generic one
Recipes only use paints you actually own. Select your brand and the color theory is tuned for that specific product line — Galleria hues behave differently than Golden Heavy Body, and Gessoed knows it.
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Real color theory, not pattern matching
Every recipe follows proper color logic — dominant hue first, temperature and chroma corrections using complements, not browns. Shadows get transparent darks. Highlights get cooler, higher-key mixes.
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Dial it in as you mix
Mixed it and it's too warm? Too chalky? Hit a correction button and get a precise one-sentence tweak — which paint to add, roughly how much. No starting over.
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Organized by project
Every saved mix belongs to a painting. Come back to a project months later and find every recipe, every correction, every note — exactly as you left it. Acrylic, oil, and gouache all supported.

Pricing

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