[Aquanet] Painting / Masa paper

[pat davis]

Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt wrote:
> I bought MASA paper from Texas Art Supply (also known on-line as Mr. Art).  I 
> crumbled it after dampening it and tried to open it back up.  It disintegrated 
> like wet toilet paper.  I also tried to paint on it dry and it did the same 
> thing.  I feel it wasn't really MASA paper.  One side of this off white paper 
> had a definite finished side and the other side had a slight fuzziness to it.
>
My experience is that you have to handle it with great care as it does 
disintegrate easily... and it does not take painting over when wet. It 
was still fun to work with, however.

If memory serves, Masa is a kind of generic name so it may well be that 
there are many different qualities. I tried googling it, but got nothing 
really explanatory.

:-?
Pat