Lesson 49 Appendix: Wet Mounting Chinese Painting on Rice Paper

[@pattifielding4829]

Henry, I love your videos. I ran into a problem with wet mounting my art (on rice paper) onto Masa. For some reason when putting on the paste it began to pill up as if it was pulling off fibers of the rice paper. What could cause that? I've done several but this ins the first time

[@blueheronarts]

The paste is too tick or the brush is too dry. You want to spray some moisture to relax the painting and apply the thin paste quickly without repeating strokes with a large flat wool (soft0 pasting brush. .

[@pattifielding4829]

​@@blueheronarts ty so much, I switched to a diff flour and made sure to use more paste and lighter pressure. It worked.

[@FFede-ji9lv]

Will wheat starch also glue the fabric to do a complete hanging scroll? Can I use corn starch too? Thank you master.

[@blueheronarts]

Yes, traditionally. I have not used any corn starch myself so i have no idea if that would work.

[@nadinestemke4571]

Hi Henry, thanks for your demonstration. Can I mount the xuan paper first on the background and do the painting on it afterwards? Or will it get crumpy?

[@blueheronarts]

Yes, you can. It will get crumpy if you apply lot is water or wet-into-wet washes. However, if you use a thick backing paper such as watercolor paper or a board and with silicone paper as adhesive instead of paste it will prevent it from happening while maintain the paper's absorbency. If you search my watercolor painting on rice paper videos you will see that I have been doing that all the time.

[@leighperry5032]

You mentioned the next step in mounting the painting, mounting it on silk. Could you PLEASE give us a link to that lesson? I keep messing up and hitting the wrong part.

[@blueheronarts]

Wet mounting? I must have messed it up. I searched the keys "mounting silk painting" and found many dry-mounting ones.

[@garrygadsby5061]

Hi Henry, can I wet mount Xuan paper onto 150 GSM Art/Watercolour paper?

[@jenepete2311]

Thank you. Great demonstration. Have done a couple paintings flat. Want to dry vertical next time.