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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…

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Arches

You need to be a little careful when writing about a watercolor paper that is highly renowned and a standard in the professional art world. Arches is perhaps the most widely used paper among…

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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…

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Watercolor paper sizing

All watercolor papers are sized, traditionally with gelatin, but nowadays sometimes with a plant-based or synthetic sizing agent. The sizing has a crucial impact on how watercolor paint behaves on the paper and is…

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Viceversa | handmade paper

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…

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Winsor & Newton professional

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…