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…
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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…
Questions about watercolor paper
Here is a little quiz about watercolor paper. The passing score is set at 6 out of 10 questions answered correctly.
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…
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…
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…
