Do you see yourself in that message I recently received from someone who follows my tutorials but still needed a little extra help with their watercolor paper?
The paper will expand when it's wet and shrinks back when it dries. Thin paper can't hold much water therefore it stays wavy. My tip is to use paper that is at least gsm. Different materials will have different impacts on the results! You can get watercolor paper in form of a block with pages that are glued together on the sides so it can't buckle. As a result, your viewing experience will be diminished, and you may not be able to execute some actions.
Please download a browser that supports JavaScript, or enable it if it's disabled i. Hi, joehall! The paper buckles because the fibers are expanding when they absorb the water. The solution is to stretch the paper. I'll have to try it when I start my next piece. You can find the quick guide on choosing the right watercolor paper for yourself here Choosing Water Color Paper. You can also do this by soaking the paper in a tub of water for 20 minutes or so until the fibers are fully saturated.
While the paper is still wet, staple or tape it to a rigid surface like a drawing board. If you tape it, you will need to buy gum tape. Other tapes won't adhere to the wet paper. When the paper dries, the fibers won't shrink back to their original size because the paper is being held in place. This allows you to paint on the paper with minimal buckling. When you're finished, just remove the paper from the board. I hope it helps! This isn't an absolute replacement for stretching as mentioned above but it will help keep your paper in line as you paint.
In my opinion it's much easier to work on a watercolor block than a thinner un-stretched piece These options are all good and will work, BUT I have some different advice.
See, I don't like any sort of prep work whatsoever. I hated gessoing canvases when I worked in acrylic and oil, I hate stretching paper as a watercolor artist. So, to get around this childlike lack of patience, I have a few different methods that get you painting within 5 minutes. The first and easiest is to buy watercolor board. You paint onto the stretched paper and only cut it free from the gum-strip when finished.
Improve this answer. Conrad Turner Conrad Turner 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. This effect will be less noticeable the thicker the paper is.
Before you paint You can purchase blocks of paper where every page is attached to the sides, and thus stretches the paper while it dries, causing it to dry pretty flat. After you paint Sandwich your paper face down between two layers of cotton fabric and steam-iron your paper in all directions.
Community Bot 1. After we wet the paper by immersing it in water, we will have to wait for it to diy before we start painting. Then will it not start buckling again? TheIndependentAquarius No, you paint on it while it's wet. Of course this is a different technique wet on wet.
TheIndependentAquarius - When stretching paper for watercolor work, you do usually let it dry first. It's the drying action that helps prevent buckling and it requires you to really tape it down with the right kind of tape.
Needless to say, I knew that, but I was giving a window for others to answer. You should be able to cut the paper then and be able to paint on it without fear of it buckling. Calvin Broadway Calvin Broadway 1.
Hi Calvin! To use duct tape sounds like a terrible idea, as it is too strong and will ruin the paper: have you tried it yourself? And what is the benefit of using size over water?
Joachim, re: tape, the answer describes cutting the paper away similar to the accepted answer. An obvious difference with sizing is that you would be painting on a dry surface, which would have a different effect e. It will then stretch itself perfectly flat again if taped properly.
But, yes, with size you can easily transport the paper, so this would indeed be very convenient when painting outside, for example.
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