In this category you will find posts about watercolor paper. How to treat Watercolor Paper. Reviews of different brands. Description of different types of watercolor paper.
The Royal Watercolour Society is the world’s oldest watercolour society. It was founded in 1804.From 1895, Hayle Mill produced a handmade watercolour paper exclusively for the Society. Production, however, ceased in 1985 when Hayle…
When I started painting watercolors in the late 1970s, I didn’t know anything about materials. I thought all watercolor paper was the same, so I bought cheap supplies. One of the first watercolor papers…
When you paint on a loose sheet of paper, and sometimes even in a block, the result can never be framed properly with a mat. The reason is that the mat will reveal every…
I am often asked how to tell the front from the back of a sheet of paper when there is no watermark. For anyone using paper in blocks, this is not an issue—it’s obvious…
During a visit to China by two Australian watercolorists, Ross Patterson and David Taylor, they were approached by the owner of the family-run Baohong paper mill, who sought advice on what it would take…
The watercolor paper Moulin du Roy from Canson was introduced in 2014, but just a few years later, it disappeared and was replaced by Heritage. Many watercolor artists who had come to love Moulin…
It was in 2019 that three women (Roberta Gagliardini, Melania Tozzi, and Roberta Brencio) decided to establish the social cooperative Viceversa in the small town of Fabriano, a town with a paper-making tradition dating…
Winsor & Newton provides everything related to art creation: Paints, paint surfaces, brushes and even small things like erasers, markers and charcoal. Their range of artist supplies is impressive. Of course, several of these…
If you buy watercolor paper in large sheets, these must be divided before painting on them. The classic way to divide a paper is to tear it against a ruler. It is of course…
