A Lovely 10C Site!

Do you think this is a pen? The image is from the Arches site, extolling the virtues of their watercolour paper.

@kdfrawg Yay! (And celery?)

@JeremyCherfas I probably still have a copy of that somewhere! I also have memories of cooking sausages in little foil contraptions, hanging from the grill on an electric radiator.

I hope it gets sorted soon.

@thrrgilag What’s it going to do?

@JeremyCherfas Yay! Bureaucracy! I hope your lights and cooking weren’t cut off.

@kdfrawg After a day of playing with big pieces of paper, I’m always a bit reluctant to go back to the lap-sized ones.

// @sumudu @hazardwarning @gtwilson

@kdfrawg It’s one of the things you lose when you look at screen or book copies of paintings. A miniature or a thing the size of a wall all look the same. I don’t think my natural scale is the whole wall, but it’s bigger than a notebook. The biggest standard size for watercolour paper is 22” x 30”, so anything bigger than that is probably pretty expensive and/or you have to get inventive about what you paint on. The cost of the paint climbs too.

I suppose the ones that are more calligraphic and less paint-y would be ok on other sorts of paper. I don’t always know what’s going to happen when I start though.

// @sumudu @hazardwarning @gtwilson

@JeremyCherfas Are there rules about when you can use the heating?

@sumudu I did my first page. :)

// @hazardwarning @kdfrawg @gtwilson

@kdfrawg There’s that, then there’s the thickness of line you can make, and the size of marks that come from waving your arm around. I use small paper more often, because I can do it with a pocket palette on the settee.

// @sumudu @hazardwarning @gtwilson