Your paper is more important than your paints or brushes, but no one seems to mention it. It REALLY, REALLY matters! In watercolour your paper is the lightest area it becomes your white paint. So bare unpainted paper is usually visible. Lots of beginners think that they will wait until they improve to buy decent paper and just use cheap stuff to practice on. The trouble is that the cheap stuff is so unrewarding that it puts them off for life.


You can paint well with poor paint on good paper, but great paint on bad paper will not work.


Good paper enhances your painting experience. It keeps your colours bright and clear and lets them move. Bad paper, makes you miserable. You will question why you are so bad at watercolours it's not you, it's the paper.


But decent paper does not have to be expensive. So join me and I will show you 7 things to consider when buying paper: texture, weights, acid free, fibre content, format, sizing and storing.


Here are the chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Why paper is so importa
2:53 Examples of different papers
5:46 What to look for
5:55 Texture
8:16 Weight
9:12 Acid free/archival
9:22 Fibre content
10: 02Format
10: 35 Sizing
11: 43 Storing watercolour paper




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