Watercolour Paper - Tested & Explained // For Beginners

Thank you for teaching us with very useful information!

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Thank you, was just looking for paper difference

Karen thanks for the wonderful videos - can you please adjust your camera angle slightly - we like to see the brush come to the paper and watch the color respond to the surface. Maybe a slight side view? Thanks

Thank you Karen. Do you have an opinion on hahnemuhle compared to arches?

Thanks Karen, very useful. In your experience which is the whitest paper you've seen? Thanks 💖

I'm so excited to buy cotton cold press paper. In my practice I've been trying to use up other art supplies to make room. I'm still making spectacular mistakes but that's okay when it's paper that isn't useful anymore. The important thing for me is how much fun this is.

Thanks Karen…good comparison of the three surfaces🙂💗

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This is very helpful information, and the roses at the end are beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Very useful information for a beginner - thank you.

Paper is my obsession. Especially in sketchbooks which I find is appalling and expensive. Hot press is my favourite to use with water media including pencils and tombow pens. I now make my own with varied papers. Bx

great explanation! I used to love cold press but have preferred hot press lately ☺

Thank you Karen. Very useful for me..a complete beginner 😯it’s a minefield out there

Thanks Karen for this detailed comparison, very helpful indeed. I recently bought some Saunders Waterford CP that I am now working to get to know. I’ve been using Arches CP previously. How would you describe the difference between these two papers?

Love what you do Karen, thank you! That thumbnail for this video shows a beautiful rose of yours but I can’t find a video of that. Please show how you did these. I LOVE it! I tried, but not even close…. Thank you for sharing, I’m just 2 years into this journey.

Thank you so much Karen. Very useful information 😊

Thank you so much

Very pretty! Daffodils are such a happy floiwer! I have a paper question for you. I am a beginner and bought a 9 x 12 Cansin pack at Michaels for watercolor paper. Will this warp when I do wet on wet & is it a good paper? Been told Shizen is one of the best available online. More expensive yet when learning new technics I don't want to be midlead with a bad paper. J am cutting my paper to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I would appreciate your advice. Thank you kindly!😊

Hi Karen, thank you so much for this very helpful video. It's so helpful that I'm recommending it in my own video on writing, illustrating and publishing children's storybooks next week.

Interesting. I bought some Arches which I always see people using but never tried it, rough paper, the orange one, I really liked it. Then I bought Hanemule, which I bought before but this particular one is 140lb cold pressed 300…I don’t like it at all, it’s terrible for washes I find. I’ve been working on a large octopus painting for a month now and sure enough, it’s the background wash, I’m going for a dark blue and with some Sminke paint..and it just looks awful. I don’t get this with Fabriano or Arches, maybe there are other Hanemules but I don’t think I’ll buy from them again.

Hi Karen, what I find the most annoying thing with watercolour, is that some papers make the paints look DULL when it dries. What paper in your vast experience does not dull watercolours ?

Thanks from a beginner for this important information!