Watercolor Paper Comparison | Fabriano

Cold press or hot press? 90 lb. or 140 lb.? Which watercolor paper is going to be right for you and your projects? I share my experience with four types of watercolor paper by Fabriano.
Hot press paper is smooth to the touch and I've used this paper for our geometry main lesson block. Because it's smooth, we can get clean arcs and lines with our pencil, straightedge and compass. But because it's watercolor paper, we can watercolor our images without fearing the paper will tear or pill.

Which weight paper is best for you? While I've been using the 90 lb. cold press watercolor paper by Fabriano for years for most of our homeschool projects, the 140 lb. paper is ideal for wet on wet watercoloring. For a wet on wet process, you want your paper wet but not sopping wet. You can either run your paper under the tap, spray with water or use a sponge to wet your paper. Then you can begin painting. The paint with move on the page with the water. It's beautiful to see and just appropriate for young elementary students, especially in a Waldorf educational setting.

I tend to use the 9"x12" paper for most of our homeschool needs, but Fabriano (and other brands) make larger paper. When working with young elementary students in a Waldorf setting, it's preferred to use larger paper, in a heavy weight and if there's cotton in the paper, it's likely to hold much better to wet on wet techniques. However, for our daily watercolor needs, or practice assignments, I use the 9"x12" paper by Fabriano because I find it to be an affordable mid range option.

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