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Watercolour Paper
Discover Our Range of High-Quality Watercolour Paper
Whether you're a beginner or a professional, finding the right watercolour paper is essential for creating beautiful works of art. Our selection includes papers from trusted brands like Arches, Saunders Waterford, and Bockingford, ensuring you get the perfect texture and weight for your watercolour technique. Choose from a variety of sizes and finishes, including Cold Pressed, Hot Pressed, and Rough watercolour paper to suit your personal style. These premium papers are designed to handle multiple washes and provide excellent colour vibrancy, making them ideal for everything from delicate washes to heavy, layered applications. Shop our range of watercolour paper pads, sheets, and blocks, available in student and professional grades, and experience how the right paper can enhance your artwork.
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Traditionally, the highest quality watercolour papers have always been manufactured from cotton fibres, which impart strength and durability to the sheet. The term 100% rag is still used to denote pure cotton fibre content and freedom from any wood pulp.
High quality artist papers are made on a mould machine, which provides all the appeal of hand made paper, but without the inevitable variations from sheet to sheet. Additionally, the best papers are manufactured to be acid free, thereby preventing degradation.
There are three main surface textures to watercolour papers, HP, CP (NOT) and Rough. HP stands for ‘hot pressed’ and is the smoothest paper suitable for high detail work. CP stands for ‘cold pressed’ (and is also commenly known as NOT - as in ‘not hot pressed’) is a slightly textured surface and popular because it is suitable for most types of work. Finally, there is ‘rough’, which is exactly what its name suggests, suitable for landscapes, seascapes etc., where a heavily textured paper enhances the final piece of work. When heavy washes are used on lighter weight paper, stretching is recommended otherwise the paper will buckle or cockle.
We stock many brands of watercolour paper, Bockingford, Saunders, Arches, Fabriano and many more. Our papers are available in loose sheet watercolour paper packs, watercolour pads, and watercolour blocks and watercolour boards.