I am trying out a new paper to draw and paint on. It’s Wausau Exact Ice 80lb and it comes highly recommended by a friend of mine. This artist paints on it in both watercolors and acrylics and also does most of his rough and final comic art on it. One of the things that attracted me to it, is that it can be xeroxed on so you can reproduce your line work multiple times in case you mess up coloring and rendering on it. The paper handles the watercolor like a hot press surface (drys fast, shows more texture) and it did buckle a bit when I had a lot of water on it, but it seems like it’s a good material to work on still, plus if you buy it from a store like Kelly Paper it cost about $.10 for a 11″x17″ sheet. Can’t go wrong with that price. Of course you have to by a half ream to start with.
I will be taking the paper down with me to San Diego to do some color sketches and experiments, so I will have some stuff to show next week here on the blog. If you are a fellow artist who is going to SDCC I would be happy share a piece with you if you want to give it a try.
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