If you're going to take advantage of this style of painting, which was founded in California, you have two options one, just get your paper into somewhere that holds water. This is all dried acrylic. I'm afraid I given up trying to keep acrylic off my Butcher's tray once a while in the summer, I'll leave it out in the hot sun and it'll, it'll all come off. So there, what am I doing here, I'm not wetting my paper, I'm saturating my paper. There's a difference between wedding paper and saturating it. So I'm going to leave that in for a while.

Notice I'm just using an older piece of paper good on one side, little dirty on the other. That will probably take 10 minutes to saturate So it's kind of like preparing your vegetables before you make a soup. You prep your vegetables in the kitchen for 10 or 15 minutes while you're busy yourself doing something else. So this is part of the process if you want this result. This is an English paper. It's a little different than the French watercolor paper.

It's a there's more more cotton in it. So now you see that paper is still buckling. But as I add water to it copious amounts of water, that's why I suggest you get some big brushes. You need brushes with lots of water. Put a little more water on the back of my slick piece of board and pop my paper down and it's ready for a California painting. Lots of water All I have to do now is take my dry rag, take off the surface water.

If you don't take the surface water off, the paint just spreads too quickly.