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== Description == | == Description == | ||
| − | A thick, hard-sized [[paper]] used for painting with [[watercolor paint]]. High quality watercolor paper is made from [[rag]] pulp or from a mixture of [[chemical wood pulp]] and rag pulp. The paper is | + | A thick, hard-sized [[paper]] used for painting with [[watercolor paint]]. High quality watercolor paper is made from [[rag]] pulp or from a mixture of [[chemical wood pulp]] and rag pulp. The paper is treated with [[size]] to render it resistant to the wet paints. Watercolor paper is typically very textured. The paper is dimensionally stable when wet and thick enough to allow rubbing and scraping. |
== Synonyms and Related Terms == | == Synonyms and Related Terms == | ||
Revision as of 13:17, 2 July 2014
Description
A thick, hard-sized Paper used for painting with Watercolor paint. High quality watercolor paper is made from Rag pulp or from a mixture of Chemical wood pulp and rag pulp. The paper is treated with Size to render it resistant to the wet paints. Watercolor paper is typically very textured. The paper is dimensionally stable when wet and thick enough to allow rubbing and scraping.
Synonyms and Related Terms
water-colour paper (Br.)
Authority
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Hermann Kuhn, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art and Antiquities, Butterworths, London, 1986
- Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
- Book and Paper Group, Paper Conservation Catalog, AIC, 1984, 1989
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000