Watercolor Paper; weight & grades, and what they mean to you.

Art Lessons by Captain Watercolor

Watercolor paper comes in three grades, cold pressed, hot pressed, and rough.

 

Paper also comes in many different weights, such as, 140 pound.

 

Paper also comes in different sizes and even in special pads called blocks and on rolls.

 

The choice is really quite simple, BUT, if you don't know what you are doing its also really easy to waste your money on the wrong choices.

The Materials for this lesson are:

     
PAPER
  Waterford 140 Pound Cold Pressed
     
PAINTS    
.......( non sedementry )
Warm Yellow   Arilyde Yellow
Cool Yellow   Hansa Yellow
Warm Red   Light Red
Cool Red   Alizerine Crimson (Hue )
Warm Blue   Pthalocynanine Blue
Cool Blue   Ultramarine Blue
.........( sedimentry )
Yellow   Yellow Ochre
Red   Burnt Sienna
Blue   Cerulean Blue (Genuine)
Green   Veridian
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