What Paper is Best for Acrylic Painting?! 🎨🌸 Before you paint your masterpiece WATCH THIS!

[@todayipaint4667]

Lots of canvas paper on pads, for acrylic or oil painting.

[@TheKayPitt]

Cool! Thanks for sharing! 🙌🏻

[@cinderblockstudios]

For any painting on paper that's warped. 1. Paint the back with water 2. Place an isolation sheet of paper over the wet surface 3. Place a weight over the entire back (a piece of wood is good for this) 4. Wait 10-15 minutes 5. Flat!

[@TheKayPitt]

No way! Omg thank you so much for this info 🤗🤗

[@SimranKaur-oy5oj]

Can this be done before using the paper for painting? I'm trying to experiment by using cardstock for painting and am looking into different ways to prep the paper.

[@CaptainFutureman]

Well, good (cotton) watercolor paper will be able to handle countless washes of very wet paint, essentially pools and puddles of water, but keeping it flat is almost an art form in itself. Unless properly stretched or mounted, it will always end up warping or buckling. You can still save it by flattening it: Make the back damp, then sandwich between sheets of paper, put a flat water resistant surface on top and weigh down with books. Let it dry overnight and it will be flat. But check if it's really dry, or the last bit of moisture will make it warp again will drying outside of the press. Just replace the sheets of paper and let it dry further. Alternatively, since it's cotton, you can iron it. Use a hard, heat resistant! surface underneath, not a soft ironing board. The paper can handle moderate heat just fine, but go easy and don't use steam as that might be too much for the acrylic paint - it is plastic after all. But I would recommend stretching the paper beforehand to save yourself the headache. There's lot's of methods explained on the Tubes of You, and they all claim to work, but they lie. Look them up and use the staples on gator board method, or the bull clamps. Those are the best and easiest. Don't forget to let the painting dry completely before unfastening. If you want the paper to have a more acrylics friendly surface, prepare it with a layer of gesso.

[@TheKayPitt]

Omg! Thank you so much for all these tips! I’m definitely going to try the sandwich approach haha I can tell you’ve been practicing un-warping paper for a while haha comments like this are so helpful for me and I’m sure other people who watch the video and want to figure out the warping situation so seriously thank you! Also I just finished a painting and alas, it warped lololol but that was before I read your comment so I might try your tips first the next painting haha

[@DavePawson]

Great presentation style. The paper that you lost in the move... did you like it?

[@mmy339]

“I don’t think your mum would put it on the fridge” love it 😂

[@TheKayPitt]

@@mmy339 🤣🤣🤣 that’s when you know you’ve made it as an artist is when your mom puts your art on the fridge haha

[@paulwoodford1984]

Pale skin is my favourite skin colour. It’s skin at it’s natural state. Not a fan of tanning. If anyone has pale skin, then maintain it as best you can. cover up in the sun

[@lifeismusicparnadonkers]

I paint on cardboard. I get it for free so it cost me nothing. Its way better than paper

[@lifeismusicparnadonkers]

Thanks for the heart❤👍🏽🎨👋🏾💪🏽

[@TheKayPitt]

How cool! Free is always the best 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 how do you use it? Do you gesso it or paint it first to prime it?

[@lifeismusicparnadonkers]

Hello@@TheKayPitt i don,t use any primer or gesso. I first drew out my sketch and then i use my acrylic paint from the brand the wall to paint over it. It works amazing. I think its better than watercolour paper,acrylic paper and mixed media paper. I,ve tryed them all and in the end the cardboard always wins😁👋🏼

[@lisasalvatore1643]

I am laughing so hard! You are wonderful!!! Thank you

[@TheKayPitt]

@@lisasalvatore1643 haha! I’m so glad I could make you laugh! Thanks for watching!!

[@IronHorseGarage]

Great stuff ma'am!! As always!!

[@TheKayPitt]

Dude! Why did I not see this comment from three weeks ago? Totally falling down on the job here 🤣🤣

[@WrestlingPlayz]

Right now I use Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper with my acrylic paint I like my paper smooth...but I have to say it is a heavy paper and even that warps. I hate canvas because I would have room for all those paintings. LMAO at 120 years old. I have said the same thing in the past. I guess I have to check that paper out you recommended just will have to gesso it and sand it to get it smooth without the texture. Great video.

[@TheKayPitt]

Oh for real? I’ll have to try it, I saw that at hobby lobby the other day. I might snatch it when I go back. And that’s a super good idea to gesso and sand it. My only concern is, I’ve been putting painters tape on it and when I peel it back up, the paper sticks to the painters tape a bit ☹️ so it makes it more rough around the edges where I taped 🤷🏻‍♀️ so idk, I wanted you to know that before you got it haha

[@WrestlingPlayz]

@@TheKayPitt Painter's tape you have to peel it off slow not fast. If you do you possibly risk ripping the paper. You definitely have to do that if you put matt medium on the edges of the tape as I have mentioned in the other video for the sharp crisp lines. Other artists told me to pull the tape off very slowly, which works for me. You won't have to sand it much. I usually do like 2-3 coats of gesso, a 2-3 pass sand with 320 grit sandpaper. Sometimes you won't have to sand it if it already feels smooth cause there have been times I didn't sand at all it just depends on the gesso you get. I used the Liquitex gesso.

[@TheKayPitt]

@@WrestlingPlayz dude I felt like I took it off pretty slow but I also left it on for a long time so that could have been it. And dope! Thank you for telling me what grit sand paper you use because I’ve gotten mixed info on what grit to use 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I’m totally trying this on my next painting

[@WrestlingPlayz]

@@TheKayPitt Glad I could help😀 I never tried it but maybe brushing water on the border before peeling it back may work. I'm going to have to try that when I do another border artwork and see if it makes it softer to pull without messing the paper up or ripping. Usually, since I coat my tape edges with Matt Medium so I have the sharp lines it seems to peel right up when pull back slow but you still have to be careful. I remember when I had trouble figuring out which grit to use until a guy who gesso his paper mentioned 320 grit on youtube... so I bought the 9 x 12 sheets on eBay and cut them down to 4 x 4 size and taped it to a soapbox or wooden block like one of those chalkboard erasers and they work great. LOL! Just don't do a lot of passes cause if you sand more than 1-3 passes it will sand through the gesso if it's the liquid kind. (It really depends on how much gesso you put on.) It's enough to make it smooth to the touch. Let me know how your next painting goes if you don't make a video on it. If you do I'll be around to see it.

[@cindygould8217]

Paint the back first with cheap paint. No more warping

[@ranaldrasmussen3900]

I watch a lot of people on the internet and they are very flat in their delivery. This young lady should be on TV.

[@TheKayPitt]

@@ranaldrasmussen3900 well thank you! That means a lot to me that you think that! 😊

[@kingslife3320]

Hey great video

[@TheKayPitt]

Thank you! I hope your weekend has been awesome 🙌🏻

[@kingslife3320]

@@TheKayPitt yes indeed I hope the same to yours much love always

[@nadhirah1807]

What weight for paper for acrylic do you think is perfect?

[@believer7280]

I think I'm gonna try painting with acrylic paint. I've never tried. Hobby Lobby has some paper for acrylics and its really thick.

[@TheKayPitt]

What do you normally paint with? I think you’ll like acrylic!

[@believer7280]

@@TheKayPitt I've been doing acrylic on gesso board. I like it. It's like painting on a smooth canvas.

[@laurynlife9521]

I love art and my sister sent me a acrylic paper for my last birthday and I still haven't tried it and I don't really know how to use it so here i am

[@TheKayPitt]

Awe yay! Well I hope this video helped you on your journey with acrylic paper 😋😋😋😋

[@MdSTherapeuticcoaching]

pallet paper is to use as a pallet...

[@chandrikaarul1381]

Can we can get bigger size paper sheets to do acrylic painting

[@TheKayPitt]

Yeah! I’m pretty sure when I was looking there were other sizes!

[@AlanAranguizPeterson]

Love this video! You are so funny!

[@bettyp.6443]

Whoa so much informative!!!!! That’s a lot of research!!!! Love it!!! You’re hilarious!!! Paint turds!!!! Lololol

[@TheKayPitt]

Yay! Thank you! I’m glad you thought it was packed with info! 🥰🥰 paint turdin around! 🤣🤣

[@garypostell5268]

Gesso

[@TheKayPitt]

@@garypostell5268 for the win!

[@timeout8057]

Um... you need to stretch the paper FIRST! AHHHAHAHAHAAAAAAAHHHA!!!

[@TheKayPitt]

@@timeout8057 omg did I say that in this video??? Hahahaha I need to rewatch my old videos for quality assurance 🤣🤣

[@williamjames5033]

what a waste of time