DANIEL SMITH284055011 Watercolor Ground, 4 oz, Transparent

I'm still learning how to paint, always learning. This transparent goes on first and I love the way it preps the paper. Honestly, I'm not sure exactly how to explain what it does but it makes the paint from brush a bit smoother. And easier to correct any small mistakes or smudges, mostly if it's because it lifts a level of paint off the paper itself or what, I don't know. But great base coat.

I wanted to paint a watercolor on a canvas board and this was a great product to use for my project. I gave my canvas 2 coats with a wide paint brush and it went down smooth and easily. I did like painting on it. The watercolor paints dry much quicker when applied on top of this material. Also it absorbs the color pigment more than regular watercolor paper. It took more time to get a dark color to stay dark when painting.

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This is kind of fun. It's not totally transparent with two coats but works fine depending on the surface. Have tried this on Wood and Canvas. On Wood, with two coats the result is close to a lower cost type of Watercolor paper and not too bad! On canvas it works with two coats but the normal blending of pigment you would experience isn't really like watercolor paper, its more of a bleeding effect. I think this is because the water in the paint is trying to get into the fabric fibers below in the canvas like a batik effect and I'm not sure a 3rd coat would help. The dry time after painting is pretty extensive. If you plan on sealing any surface with any kind of varnish you better hit it with some kind of spray fixative first and let it dry a long time because the pigments will bleed otherwise (I've been using Daniel Smith paint that technically should not be releasing or bleeding at all). There's a bit of a learning curve but on the upside if you wet an area with paint, the paint will stay where you wet it like watercolor paper. It holds a wet line but really does not act like 140 lb cotton paper on canvas. I'm going to try it on porcelain next!

I used to put a painting surface on a cloth covered sketch book. I used 2 coats to lessen the texture. It didn't run, gave me neat edges and took the waterpaint just like paper!

I used this on several types of things- metal, wood, canvas. I’ve only watercolored over the wood but it worked great! Really opens up possibilities!

So you brush these stuff in other surfaces nd you can paint watercolor on other surfaces than watercolor paper!!!GENIUS!!!

I started an art journal and am new to water colors. This medium allowed me to create a base over slick surfaces that otherwise would not have been absorbent enough. Love it.