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I don’t usually buy cheap watercolour paper as it’s often poor quality, cockles to much and just soaks in the colours, but I succumbed when visiting the Range recently and bought this pad .
The paper felt good and quite thick with a decent textured surface ,that didn’t look like it had been added afterwards as sone cheap paper does , and at £5:99 I thought why nit give it a go . I don’t paint this large but bought it to cut down to sizes I wanted to use , I found it cuts in three give three strips of 17 . 2 or so cm by 40.6 ,great for landscapes and seascapes etc .
Here are I few I’ve done recently and an ink pen one for watercolour wash to be added .
I have been deliberately heavy handed with the water and not handling the paper carefully to see how it stood up to being miss treated . Well apart from a bit of cockling that soon flattens out when the paper dries, I do tape down as I always do , I thinks it’s quite a decent paper. Will be going near the Range next week and I will pick up a couple more for future use. I will add that it’s not the best of paper but for the price it’s very usable for everyday use.
The paper felt good and quite thick with a decent textured surface ,that didn’t look like it had been added afterwards as sone cheap paper does , and at £5:99 I thought why nit give it a go . I don’t paint this large but bought it to cut down to sizes I wanted to use , I found it cuts in three give three strips of 17 . 2 or so cm by 40.6 ,great for landscapes and seascapes etc .
Here are I few I’ve done recently and an ink pen one for watercolour wash to be added .
I have been deliberately heavy handed with the water and not handling the paper carefully to see how it stood up to being miss treated . Well apart from a bit of cockling that soon flattens out when the paper dries, I do tape down as I always do , I thinks it’s quite a decent paper. Will be going near the Range next week and I will pick up a couple more for future use. I will add that it’s not the best of paper but for the price it’s very usable for everyday use. 
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I bought four different types of watercolour paper recently - it's been interesting (not always very attractively so!) to see the different qualities, particularly in the way they handle paint, some sucking it up, some allowing the paint to sit and mingle on the surface. The cheapest papers I've used, consistent with having any quality at all, were The Langton, and Bockingford - some of my better paintings in w/c were on Bockingford: it's not regarded as a premium paper, but it has many pleasing characteristics. I don't have The Range anywhere near me, so haven't been tempted by their less expensive papers - I don't know that I'd be inclined to go for them, though: if you've spent quite a bit on your paint, and you need all the help a paper can give, it makes sense to me to go for the best you can find: but then, that does get expensive if you paint every day... Especially as "the best" has to be sought for - and what's best for you might be impossible to work on for me.
If you have a birthday coming up, drop heavy hints to the family that your work demands good quality paper: and if you haven't - well surely you deserve a nice present every now and then anyway...
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The range does actually sell some decent main stream brands, but not many.
I never buy unbranded products, well rarely I suppose would be more accurate, I’m all about quality these days - but obviously Paul is doing a sterling job using them.
That says 300gsm on the cover, which I believe is 140lbs, so will cockle under a heavy wash.