Lanaquarelle 100% Cotton Watercolour Paper (review)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Lanaquarelle's quality is right up there with Arches and Fabriano
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I tried this when ordering a ton of different papers and I was surprised at how great it is. The price is good too.
thanks for sharing. Can you please also create a video about shadows. what colors to use and how to create shadows when it is on another object of different color. thanks 😊
Love these types of videos. Thanks
That's the first 100% coton watercolor paper I try and loved it so much I never try something else even if I have Arches paper at home.
As always, your review of this paper was thorough as well as interesting to watch.. Thank you for showing the watercolors flowing and mixing ! Ohhh how I LOVE water color .. everything about it .. and when the colors flow and blend .. well .. it is simply a thing of beauty ... !!! ... This paper is now on my list ! Thanks for an awesome review and video .. ! : D
Really nice paper! The viewer that sent it to you is indeed a very generous person. 👍😀
Hi Teoh Thanks for this review - great as always. Lanaquarelle is becoming my favorite paper it used to be Saunders Waterford. I like it’s white and can take a lot of water.
I’m glad to have found this review Teoh. This is the most budget friendly professional paper I could find at my local art store so I’m glad to hear that it performs well. Thank you for the review!
Good review, I have always heard good things about this paper. I really liked it where you let the two colors blend into each other.
That looks really nice. I have a lot of the other papers you have recommended but when I get low it will be good to able to comparison shop for prices & still get good paper. Thanks!
On Friday (6Dec 2019) I attended a demo at the Daniel Smith store and learned that their lab uses this paper to test all the watercolor paint they make there! “It shows the colors well”
Thank you Teoh. You produce the most informative and comprehensive reviews on the internet! I love Arches paper, and now want to try this as well. The best advice I received as a new watercolor painter was to use good quality paper; it is the most important component of successful watercolor painting. I had not heard of this paper before, so thank you for this excellent review! Happy New Year to you and your family! 🎆🎊🎈
I subscribed to your channel. Like your teaching methods, your explanation of watercolor colors is very good. I am sitting in a cafe today and chatting with my friends. Also, I drew a picture.
I saw a wonderful video testing high end papers and this paper actually was BETTER than Arches and Fabriano. Especially in the sense that it doesn't warp (Arches is making waves for me) and it does much better wet on wet than Fabriano. I have some on order and I can't wait to try. It's right up there with Hanhemuhle's Collection papers, but less expensive for me in the USA. I could see right away in your video how brilliant the colors are!
I do enjoy using this paper, perhaps slight more than Arches
That crackling sound with the marker sent a chill down my spine.
Teoh, you should really consider having a fundraising campaign for your channel by selling journals made by the Society of the Physically Disabled with LANA Aquarel. For example, figure out the cost of producing and shipping 50 of them plus a donation, and have people pre-order them so the project is paid for before production begins. I know you have thousands of people who trust your reviews and would buy a premium watercolor book to support everything you do. Also it'd support the society too! You could put a parkablog logo on the cover? I know I'd buy a few!
Those sketchbooks are going to be expensive. An A5 100% cotton Arches/Fabriano is going to cost probably US $40 (40 pages) not including shipping (probably around US $10).
@@teohyc Is the Fabriano cheaper than this LANA paper? That's what I was talking about. $50-60 for a really good watercolor journal with great 100% cotton paper doesn't seem like that much of a burden if it also supports a channel we love *and* a worthwhile nonprofit like the Society. That comes to $1.50 a page? For comparison, the new Sketchr journals -- (the old Perfect Sketchbook) -- is going for basically $60 a pop *they're selling them for 119 US dollars for two). So $60 to support a resource like yours AND the Society's work seems MUCH MORE WORTHWHILE to me. But that's me. Maybe poll your viewers or your patreon folks. The way I look at it its buying a good watercolor journal that's been vetted by a trusted authority (you!) :-)
wow, for paper behaving well like this, I literally get a YUMMY feeling when the paint flows.
Last time you showed off this paper, I went on amazon to find it and oh my goodness, it's so expensive but you make the paper look so beautiful that I dont mind splurging on it.
If you can get Arches or Fabriano at lower prices, go for them. The quality is comparable. No point spending significantly more.
Thank you Teoh, (or should I say Parka ?)... I’m french but I never used Lana paper, as for the Khadi paper before, you give me the idea to try it now. Nice demonstration in this video ! 👍🏻
Love your reviews, we don’t have that paper here though
Hello Teoh, thank you for this review. I use this paper almost exclusively for my watercolors. I use the 300 lb. hot press and find it performs perfectly for my work. I so wish I could find a way here in the US to get some custom handmade “books” like you get made, they are lovely! I also enjoyed the whole Amsterdam sketchers symposium series! Claudia
Gary Weybright go to the Etsy site many artists there make hand made books with a variety of watercolor papers. I just received one myself with hot pressed arches paper 140lb. Nicely made.
I just suggested above that Teoh consider a fundraising sale of these books through the Society.
Sandy Becker thanks Sandy I will check this out.
Gary Weybright: Hi Claudia! It is really easy to make your own sketchbooks; there are various TH-cam videos on how to stitch the signatures together, and it doesn’t take long at all. I have a leather cover to hold the signatures, and I use headbands from Dollar Tree down the spine of the cover at the halfway point of the signatures. It’s also fun to find various books at thrift stores or old address books - anything you like. Just remove the pages; most come out easily. You can make them any size or orientation you want. It’s fun and inexpensive!! 😊
Very nice 👍
It's worth noting that this paper is vegan (!), like all Hahnemuhle papers :-)
And the hot pressed paper is lovely to use with colored pencils because of its smooth, slightly "furry" texture.
Thank you for another great review!!!
The parent company of lanaquarelle is hahnemühle
Thanks. I didn't know that
Z. Z. Oh thank you!! Very good to know!!
Thank you for a great video, as usual! I am so sad to report that the Lana paper factory, located right near where I live, closed it‘s doors yesterday. An address book filled with clients and full of orders, they did not survive the local government‘s decision to augment building taxes by 300% badly timed together with 2022‘s rise in energy costs. Difficult times for the ex-employees and all involved. 😢
Oh wow. That is very bad news. Their paper is so good and right up there with Arches and Fabriano
darn no wonder im struggling to replace my lanaquarelle block. I do find it's a fairly soft and fragile paper compared with arches but I kind of came to appreciate that as it pushed me to not do too many corrections in my work. rip in peace: lana
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Thank you so much for the review Teoh. So helpful. May i ask, how does this paper compare to Saunders, and how is its 'drying time' compared to arches and saunders? In my environment, paper dries very quickly unfortunately. This paper is a lot more affordable than arches here, and tbh im not sure i like arches that much now 🙈 i Hope you and your loved ones are well and safe .
It performs quite similar to Arches. This is a very thirsty paper so you will need to use a lot of water.
Legion papers sells many different companys papers. You tested which one of them in your sketch book
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Is the reverse side of Lana CP smoother than the right side? Is it usable for graphite?
Slightly smoother. For graphite, you may want to get cheaper paper.
Do you recognized a stronger granulation compared to other brands? Thr surface seems rougher compared to saunders waterford.
I find the surface quite similar to Arches. It's like very fine grain
Never heard of this brand before, is it as expensive as Arches and Fabriano?
Depends on where and who you buy from
Do you remember what size paper / block you had to make these sketchbooks?
Probably the 16 by 20. If I were to buy a block to make sketchbooks, that’s the size I will buy. After folding and cutting, you get an almost A5 sized sketchbook
Teoh Yi Chie thanks. Have someone who makes sketchbooks so would like to send this one to her
I mostly paint portraits and botanicals. Loved everything about this paper but lifting off colors from it is little difficult :(
It really depends on the paint. Some paint are going to stain while others can still be lifted
Their website doesn’t offer journals? Only sheets, blocks and rolls...? How did you get a journal?
Mine was custom made
Do you have a business mailing address? For the fans that want to send you something.
I don’t. Unfortunately I don’t have space to hold too many things.
@@teohyc OK thanks
How is Lana's hot-pressed paper?
I’ve not tried that before
Is the Lanaquarelle available in a sketchbook? I couldn’t find any on the website...
It’s available only in loose sheets and blocks. The sketchbook I have is custom made.
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Beautiful paper. Very expensive in the US. Arches will go on 50% off sale now and then and Fabriano Artistico will have some decent deals now and then. But Lanaquarelle is always out of reach for me. To bad so sad.👍
Go for the cheaper among these three. Quality is quite similar. Arches has a more sandy surface.
@@teohyc Thanks Teoh. I have a bit of Arches and some hot press Fabriano. Right now I'm enjoying Sanders Waterford and trying some Moulin du Roy. The Moulin paper is by Canson and is very nice allowing a long time to work and blend on the paper too. 😁
I tried this paper today and hated it. Maybe I got a bad paper. It pilled so bad and everything got muddy. I was super disappointed.
Test the paper first. Paint an area with colour, and when the wash is still wet, paint maybe 3 horizontal lines and see how the lines blend with the paper.
If the horizontal lines blend smoothly and the lines disappear or the horizontal strokes are no longer noticeably, it's good paper. It means the paper can handle wet on wet well, which is the mark of a good watercolour paper.
There's an example here
www.parkablogs.com/content/review-baohong-watercolour-paper-student-grade-100-cotton
Paint can be muddy due to two reasons. The wrong combination of colour is used. E.g. Phthalo BLUE and wam RED will not give you a vibrant purple. The other reason is the sizing of paper has deteriorated and paint goes into the paper rather than remain on top, so colour is less vibrant.
@@teohyc 🤔 Maybe the sizing was bad. I didn't think about that bc that's literally never happened to me before. Unfortunately I won't know for a while bc this was a sample pack of all different kind of hot press paper I got from an Etsy supplier and it only contained one of each brand. (Super reasonably priced 😉 worth checking out) But one day, I'll try lanaquarelle again, I'm sure.
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