Send them an email and they will help.Looking to shop blotter paper? You’ve come to the right place! On Etsy, you can find a wide range of blotter paper online in India, from one-of-a-kind handcrafted options to vintage treasures ready to be loved again. If your willing to pay a bit more they will even cut it down to size for you. If you order from Talas you can get single full size sheets, trust me part of one order for me was 2 30pt full size blotter papers. In fact when I bind books, I have started putting sheets of blotter paper to absorb excess moisture. When you bring you brush down the paint would immediately start to soak into the paper much more than spread. Blotter paper at 100pt (at that weight it is 1/10th inch thick) is the thickness and weight of very heavy watercolor paper and behaves much differently. There is a lot more to paper than just the weight. I've done the watercolor on stretched paper, it still does not behave like blotter paper. By the way - I've been cheated, the last bit of blotting paper I bought is thin and hard and ink smears on it. We may be getting in to the realm of the ridiculous here, but is it possible to "de-size" watercolour paper? I'm thinking - stretch the paper, spray it with lots of water so it's really "in to the bone" wet and then let it dry out again completely? It might make it more absorbent. This was done on artist grade cold press 140 lb paper. might like to try it out for some of the different effects I try to get.'' What type of watercolor paper do you use. I've tried to get puddles a few times, though. I've not had the puddles (and no warping or buckling), if I stretch the paper first, which I always do. With a blotting paper, you want the opposite - you want the water to be drawn immediately into paper and rapidly dissipated through the fibres of the paper. What this means is that water will puddle on the surface of the paper and be absorbed at a slower rate - not exactly characteristics you want in a blotting paper. This helps to avoid the water (and paint) feathering into the paper - it also helps a more even rate of absorption into the paper. Watercolour paper is sized (i.e., coated with gelatin or some other substance). You cannot use watercolour paper as blotting paper - well, not good ones anyway. I may just have to break down and cut into a sheet of the watercolor paper I have and test it out. My guess is, the 140 lb or 300 lb hot press paper would be fine for the desk, but may be too thick to use in a rocker blotter. The 300 lb paper, for example, is really quite thick and would be rather difficult to roll up. The weight (thickness) varies quiet a bit. The "rough" watercolor paper is definitely texture. Hot press watercolor paper has very, very little "tooth" or texture. Sorry if I'm teaching my granny to suck eggs here :embarrassed_smile:Ĭold press watercolor paper has a bit of a texture to it. I would say its more like a really thick, untextured, kitchen roll - does that compare with your heavyweight paper in description? I'm lucky enough to have ready access to big sheets of blotting paper from stationers here in the UK so I've never had to use watercolour paper as a blotter, although instinct tells me it must surely work, after all that stuff is designed to soak up a lot of water!īlotting paper is quite soft though and quite "fibrous", I would think more so than watercolour paper, which means it soaks up liquid extremely easily. I'm not so sure it as much about the weight as the softness with blotting paper.
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