Three questions artists should probably never ask [72]
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How to Choose the Right Paint for Your Painting
The first layer, first two layers of paint that I put on, go dull because they're going into the paper. When it's watercolour, it wasn't sized. It would soak up watercolour like blotting paper. But when I put two layers of gesso on and I have this, then I have this completely different surface. So there you go, if you have any horrible white left because it's all going to be covered. However, I do love working with inks on watercolour paper and then I would never put gessoon because it works with the paper in a way that I like. And so again, this comes back to such a perfect example
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