Chooseing watercolour paper for a work will
depend on what you want it to do for you.
This post
will be a small mini series of different components of picking paper. Lately I
have been either A- useing a paper I have used before from a pack or B- picking
paper by how it feels on my hand. After much debate it is time to go back to my
roots in watercolour and have a mini refresher course on the dynamics behind
these papers.
Cold Press: Textured surface which is in between rough and
hot-pressed papers. Most often used to benefit from the texture that shows up
when painted on.
Hot Press: Fine grain, smooth surface with
almost no tooth. Paint dries quickly. Ideal for large even colour washes. Great
for detail and do not wish to use granulation.
Rough: a rough surface. It was pressed
between the felts on the paper machine and the roughness of the felt (blanket)
is embossed in to the wet surface.
I have a collection of paper right
not consisting of mostly Hot pressed paper. Majority of those are on a
watercolour block. The block is very handy to have around as it is already
“stretched” which I will try to address in another post. Alternatively since
university I have been buying individual sheets. I generally cut them down to a
more manageable size but I have used it on occasion to create larger works. A
great example is “Sun Wukong” I did in
January for my brother who loves the story “Journey to the West”.
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