Sea Shell Watercolor painting

I have worked on this 15 x 22 inches watercolor painting doing layers of under painting over a few days.  I have choose to use 140 lb Arches hot press watercolor paper because of it’s smooth texture.  I have always painted on cold press paper which gives me a little paper tooth for putting on my watercolor paint.  This time the overall feeling is so different when applying paint on to a hot press paper surface that I have to rethink what I need to change with my technique to accommodate the new experience.  I found that the paper is more absorptive and color applied on the surface get dried quite fast.  It gives me less time to work on compare with the cold press watercolor paper.  Especially when doing a large area, you have to work really quick or have a large brush and lots of paint.