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Pennsylvania Farm Field

Pastel on Arches Watercolor paper

Today's Daily painting was done on 300 lb. arches watercolor paper. This is a surface that I have used a lot for Pastels and one I have always liked very much. The only problem with it, is that it needs to be mounted on gator board before you can paint on it.

Sometimes I have no free gator board in the studio, which is a good thing because it means I've been working a lot. But when you are excited about an idea for a painting and you have no paper mounted, it can be a problem.

 So I am exploring other surfaces to do my daily paintings on. I am getting used to the 400 UART paper, and will blog more about that in future blogs.