Lizzie Harper Botanical Illustrator Compares watercolor hot press papers (part 3)

Lizzie continues her quest for a good #watercolour #paper for #botanicalillustration work in this third film in the series, and this time...finds one!

This video compares six #hotpress #papers; showing x64 speeded up footage of her painting a #flower on each, then explaining her findings, along with a brief analysis of each paper under the microscope.

The papers tested here are:

Clairefontaine Hotpress watercolour
http://www.clairefontaine.com/product-en-96349c-fontaine-hot-pressed-pad-300g-20sh-24x30.html

Winsor & Newton Medium surface heavyweight Cartridge paper http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/shop/paper/drawing-sketching-paper/medium-surface-heavy-weight-drawing-pad-gummed-220gsm100lb-25-sheets-a5-pad-6689735

Strathmore 500 Series Imperial watercolour paper (hot press)
https://www.strathmoreartist.com/paint-watercolor/500-series-imperial-watercolor.html

Fabriano Artistico hotpress (the new stock, available to buy)
https://fabriano.com/en/22/artistico_traditional_white

My old stock of Fabriano Artistico hotpress (no longer available)

and

Fluid 100
http://www.globalartmaterials.com/fluid_100.php

You'll have to watch to see which one turns out to be the #Holygrail of #botanicalart #hotpresspapers!

For a written blog of these tests (along with other blogs on testing papers and lots of other botany and natural history subjects) please visit my website on:
http://www.lizzieharper.co.uk/news/article/217/Botanical_Illustration_Comparing_Hot_Press_Watercolour_Papers_part_3

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