Easy Fix for When Your Watercolor Paper Buckles

[@thereptiletwins4855]

Thanks, this really helped me out

[@brettblumenthalstudio]

so glad!

[@lisavento7474]

Wahoo! Why did it buckle in the first place if I already stretched it to specs of another watercolor artist?

[@brettblumenthalstudio]

I don’t know. I don’t think any watercolor paper is fully immune to buckling if you use a lot of water.

[@lisavento7474]

Only smaller figures are done and I have the background done but peeled flattened it off the board and did what you did, going to staple it to gator board to finish the illustration and then do this again if needed. I NEVER had buckle issues decades ago when I fully wet paper and used that brown wide tape to hold it to a wood board. Maybe I have to go back to that

[@lisavento7474]

OH NO!!!!!! NOW I HAVE CARDBOARD RIB MARKS on the paper!!! I used thick cardboard WHAT THE HECK!!! In some angles of light it looks like bookmarks in unpainted areas! What?

[@brettblumenthalstudio]

gosh. I think maybe putting paper between the cardboard to eliminate that might help

[@lisavento7474]

So… how many sheets need to be there? Something doesn’t make sense

[@brettblumenthalstudio]

I’m not sure what you mean. You put the wet paper between two layers of cardboard with craft paper between each side of the paper and cardboard

[@lisavento7474]

Craft paper! Ok, gotta be an easier way… still searching… others stapled down wet and that worked on a huge project I just did .