Best way to flatten watercolor paper

Hi! Welcome to my studio. Today I want to share with you how to flatten a watercolor painting (my way). With my method you can flatten one painting or up to 7-8 pieces of paintings at the same time :D I have also used this method successfully flattening gouache paintings if that is your painting technic, it should work for you as well. Let me know if this is useful for you or how you flatten your art. Have a fantastic day!
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[@donnacarraway9182]

Yes, this is actually a video for flattening paintings that are already painted and not the paper before painting. We all have those finished paintings that are warped and this is probably a good solution for that problem. Thank you!

[@mariannescheel]

That's right. I'm too lacy to flattening the paper prior painting so if it gets too wavy after the painting it's finished I use this method ☺️

[@maryvandeusen5554]

Thank you

[@mariannescheel]

Your so welcome 😊

[@dessyedeeclark1144]

Helpful video. Perhaps if you finished your paintings with watercolor pencils, you could still have fine detail but an iron wont melt it, as it is pure pigment abd not wax based pencil.

[@mariannescheel]

I'll have to test that one day 👍😊

[@rosiepisatcky7877]

Thank you Marianne. Great tips! Your artwork is beautiful!

[@mariannescheel]

Thank you Rosie ☺️🥰🙏

[@leahloving1580]

Thank you for this very helpful video!

[@mariannescheel]

You are so welcome, I’m happy that it was helpful ☺️🙏

[@mariyo08]

Thank you! It was very useful and simple way!

[@mariannescheel]

You're welcome 🤗☺️

[@user-jq9rv6lp4y]

I tried your method and it worked perfectly! Thank you ver much.

[@mariannescheel]

You're welcome. So happy to hear 😃🥰

[@personalgrowthcourseskmf5443]

I plan to try it also. This method is much simpler than others.

[@personalgrowthcourseskmf5443]

Great job! Thank you!

[@MariaMartinez-jb3zn]

I watched someone who wet the back of paper before doing watercolor…he’s been wetting like this on table before he works on painting. I haven’t tried that yet but I do use even weight to straighten paper after dry too. My watercolors are not that big but I do take care that they are flat. 🙏🏽🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏽

[@mariannescheel]

Yes. Of course it also depends on size and the kind of work you do 😊 I try to keep it as uncomplicated as possible and save time 👍☺️😍

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

Hi Marianne, good video, helpful. How do you scan your larger art works? Do you send them Out? I find that it’s very pricey and a good scanner is very expensive.

[@mariannescheel]

Hi Angela, that's a great question. If the art piece is very big and painted on paper, I scan it in pieces (I only have a A4 scanner for this) then I put all these part scannings into a Photoshop file and asamblea the artwork as it was a puzzle. It's a lot if work in the beginning to figure it out so all pieces fit together but with practice it gets easier. As soon as I get a new computer that can handle video editing I can make a video that shows exactly how I do it 😊

[@samstewart9249]

Seems like a lot of work, I just put my painting in a cotton pillow case, stream iron it on cotton setting cover it with a flat surface and weight. Next day dry, flat and ready to mount.

[@mariannescheel]

That sounds much easier than my method and I would try it out for sure had my paintings watercolor alone. But I don't trust the color pencil layers/areas can put up with so much heat so that's why this is what works for me 😊

[@russholt5062]

Thanks for the video. But if you stretch your paper first, you won't need to flatten it after painting?

[@mariannescheel]

That might help a little, but I would still need to flatten the painting after it's finished. I guess part of the reason might be because I work with more than one media, I do really put a lot of pressure some times when working with the color pencils... and a lot of water when painting with watercolors :)

[@anapantelic517]

Yes, if you stretch it first you don’t have to flatten it after, because it doesn’t buckle, but remains flat, whether you use watercolour or gouache, or even carandache.

[@karenwest9783]

Apparently it can affect the sizing on the paper if you do it first

[@anapantelic517]

Have you tried stretching the paper before you start working? It doesn’t buckle.

[@mariannescheel]

Yes I have but it didn't work for me. I might have done it wrong but this way I show here works perfect 😊

[@anapantelic517]

@@mariannescheel The best way is whatever works for you, in which case.