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Daniel Smith Dot Card (238)

1 Buff Titanium+Zoisite Genuine Hansa Yellow Medium+Burgundy Yellow Ochre 2 Permanent Orange+Quinacridone Deep Gold Cad. Red Med Hue +Quin. Burnt Orange 3 Rhodonite Genuine +Deep Scarlet Quinacridone Fuchsia +Permanent Brown 4 Nickel Titan…

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2023.09.18 Taittsuu Gacha2023.11.13 Bird2024.03.19 Tricolours2024.03.27 Flower2024.04.26 Dot Card (Daniel Smith)

Flower

Tricolours

Match MagentaLemon YellowUltramarin Holbein Perylene MaroonIsoindolinone Yellow DeepRoyal Blue 墨運堂 (Bokuun Do) E14 朱明 (Vermilion Light)E10 黄明 (Yellow Light)E12 青明 (Blue Light) Sakura RedYellowBlue Faber Castell RedYellowIndigo Dan…

VifArt (hot-pressed)

manufacturer Maruman colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Hmm.Guess the texture difference between the front and back was NOT rough or smooth, but there's actua…

VifArt (cold-pressed)

manufacturer Maruman colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:I'm beginning to like this paper. Eraser works great, and granulation effects come out nicely, even wi…

VifArt (rough)

manufacturer Maruman colour white coloured texture smooth (back) rough (front) surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes: This paper's rough is only for the front side, and quite a quiet roughness compared to…

Paperclick Visual Art Diary

manufacturer Paperclick colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:I was going to claim Micador as the cheapest watercolour paper I could find in Brisbane. Then I loo…

Micador Watercolour Paper

manufacturer Micador colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:A4 12 pages for $9.00Needed a tiny bit more to make it a free shipping.Therefore I bought.At first, I …

Black or Sepia or Brown or Grey

In search for the favourite millipen colour... line colour Pigma Black Pigma Sepia+ Pigma Brown Copic Sepia+ Sarasa Orange Copic Warm Grey notes to self: Flowers very hard (´・ω・`)Buying how-to books do not make you better. Sarasa grey is…

Watercolour Paper Comparison Index

Used: pen: COPIC multiliner (warm grey) colour: KUSAKABE harmonia (dusk sky) Keys: colour: paper's own colour texture: surface smoothness surface: eraser / masking tape friendly? staining: how well paper drinks pigments F&B: Front & Back s…

Arches

manufacturer Arches colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:This is cold-pressed, but it's on the verge of being rough.I had some difficulty putting small details …

Albireo

manufacturer Holbein colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Wow.This is THE cheapest of 30 papers I've tried, and it's really good.Just in the middle of smooth an…

Yupo

manufacturer Eckersley's colour white coloured texture SUPER smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Who placed yupo in the list of watercolour papers?Lier! Lier! (ノД`)・I wrote surface was "S…

Reeves

manufacturer Reeves colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:I wouldn't call this paper rough, but on the rougher side of middle.Brushstrokes don't melt so much ben…

Artistico (Classic)

manufacturer Fabriano colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:I've chosen the yellowest, smoothest version to try for this comparison.(Fabriano has a lot of differ…

Britannia

manufacturer Hahnemuhle colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Pencil felt tiny roughness, but no catches with pens and brushes.Erasers OK. Masking tape OK.Dries …

Torchon

manufacturer Hahnemuhle colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Looks smooth, but texture feels kinda rough on pencils and pens, but it doesn't suck up on ink as r…

Bamboo

manufacturer Hahnemuhle colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Slightly cream. Pencil glide nicely. Erasers no prob.Colours ride well. Dries quick.Smoother versio…

Cezanne

manufacturer Hahnemuhle colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Example is cold-pressed, but even the rough version was fairly smooth.Slow to dry, so there's plent…

Maou

manufacturer Orion colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface SUPER delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:No.N O . Even a kneadable eraser comes off with white powders all over.Eek (ll゚ω゚) It was interest…

Aldebaran

manufacturer Orion colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Eraser scared... (>_<)Other than that, is pretty normal, standard, everyday watercolour paper. ...wait, …

Comic Deneb

manufacturer Orion colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Compared to it's sister Acryl Deneb,Slightly weaker to masking tape, probably due to thinness (but no pr…

Acryl Deneb

manufacturer Orion colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:It had smooth surface on the front side, and slightly rougher on the back.Other than that is almost like…

Wirgman

manufacturer Orion colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:I'd try colouring the dark shadows first, and then pull the colours with water, I thought.Then the water…

Sirius

manufacturer Orion colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:I thought, "Nice. Eraser can't hurt you" at first, until I ripped masking tape out to tape on the panel.…

Kaisercraft

manufacturer Kaisercraft colour white coloured texture smooth (front) SUPER rough (back) surface delicate SUPER tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Strong surface banzai!Back's roughness banzai!I was really, very fortun…

Clester

manufacturer Holbein colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Welp, I thought this was strong paper that can take tons of pencils and erasers....until I took the ma…

Strathmore (Imperial 500)

manufacturer Strathmore colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:Typical cotton-ish paper. I'd like to make a special note that, the colours on this paper turned sl…

Waterford White

manufacturer Saunders colour white coloured texture smooth rough surface delicate tough staining soaks into paper floats on surface notes:This is my first experience of sizing went bad :(It was only for 1 of the 2 papers the manufacture ha…