Common watercolor papers manufacturing method
Below is a summary of various watercolour papers and how they are manufactured. I have included all the papers I have written about on this blog, as well as some common and well-known papers…
Category: Watercolor Paper
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.
Watercolour Paper – Manufacture and Materials
Paper is a thin material consisting of interwoven plant fibres. Leaving aside earlier paper-like products, paper in the modern sense was invented in China about two thousand years ago. Early paper was made from…
Hahnemühle – Turner
This is the second watercolour paper from Hahnemühle that I have recently painted on. The previous one, which I have written about, is Hahnemühle – The Collection, which has a soft sizing, while Turner…
Royal Watercolour Society – Watercolour 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…
Hahnemühle – The Collection
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…
Make a bubbly watercolor Painting flat
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…
Watercolor paper, front and back
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…
Baohong – The Master’s Choice
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…
