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Baohong Watercolor Paper Review
Recently a member of an art group I belong to mentioned that she’d tried Baohong watercolor paper and that it was gelatin sized. Of course my interest was caught. Looking up the paper I discovered that there was some confusion around it. They make a student grade paper (don’t know what that is sized with) […]
Review: Blick 100 Percent Cotton Watercolor Paper
I’ve posted pieces I’ve done on Blick’s 100 Percent Cotton Watercolor Paper before, but I did want to mention it in light of the other papers I’ve been reviewing, and will be reviewing in the next month. In brief, I do not recommend this paper for watercolor. It’s a fun paper to sketch on with […]
100 Percent Cotton Paper Does NOT Mean It’s Great
Edited at 8:40 a.m. on posting day, as I caught some typos. As I unpack my studio from the downsizing I’m organizing the papers I have saved for projects I wasn’t able to do during the move. There are also some pads and blocks of paper purchased in the early days of the Pandemic. […]
Testing the Twone Sketchbook with Kraft Cardstock Covers
Do I actively seek out the most obscure commercially bound books containing non-art paper to test? No, it simply seems like that sometimes. I grew up with a small weekly allowance paid after the completion of standard house and family chores. That allowance had to stretch from candy to art materials. Let’s just say I […]
Painting on Canson Heritage Watercolor Paper
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Review of Strathmore’s Vision Watercolor Paper
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