Paper Grain & Watercolor Painting

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m John Junger. I do the paintings that we’re going to be talking about, the watercolors. I’m here representing expertvillage.com. Paper has a direction of grain, which is generally the direction of which it came off the rollers when it’s being made. There’s felts; felts have a texture, one side would be rougher and the other side will be smoother because of the way it goes thought the manufactory. You can use either side of the paper, however I like to use the side that’s up on the pad, which has little bit more texture and a little more unevenness is on the other side. So that again, depends purely on what you want. There is also watermark on paper that will show up when you hold it up to light that tells you what kind of paper it is and who manufactured it, and sometimes even the weight. It’s a good thing to keep that in mind when you’re cutting down sheets of that, it’s nice to keep the watermark on the paper. Now, this is a 300 pound paper, 100 % rag. I’ve worked on both sides. I started something on this side, I didn’t like it so went to the other side and worked on this side. That’s something you can do with a heavier sheet that you may not be able to do with a lighter sheet because there would be some show through of color on a thin sheet. "