Posts Tagged ‘stretching’

Stretching paper

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Artists working with water colours, whether they’re producing landscapes, portraits or indeed pet portraits, will traditionally go for a high quality water colour paper as a support. One of the points to consider when buying the paper is what weight to go for. Paper weights, which are measured in Pounds, are based on the weight of a ream of paper, a ream being 480 sheets. (more…)