[Aquanet] of paper and all that

[patchapin at mindspring.com]

If you are gonna talk sensual and watercolour paper in the same sentence, you need to speak of Twinrocker's feather deckle good stuff.  Only problem, at least for me, is it sometimes inspires paper fear.

pat chapin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrick Davis 
  To: Aquanet 
  Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:46 AM
  Subject: [Aquanet] of paper and all that


  NitaLeland wrote: 
    Every brand of paper has different characteristics in addition to the surface texture. My favorites are Arches, because it's tough and reliable, and Winsor & Newton, which is almost as tough and is whiter. I don't like Lana paper or Whatman, which seem too soft to me, but some of the Fabrianos are okay.
  I have not used Lana or Whatman, but I do use W&M, d'Arches and Saunders Waterford, all in 140# cold press. I find the latter two to be quite similar; that is they are tough papers that take quite a bit of scrubbing. 

  I find the W&N to be whiter and softer. It was in using the W&N that I stopped stretching my paper as I found the preliminary soaking changed the surface in a way I didn't like. Unsoaked W&N has a surface that is almost sensual- in the classical sense of the word. If it was cotton material, one would say "it has a nice hand." The other two are "harsher" to me.

  That said, I think all are good papers and serve very well.

  FWIW
  pat 


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