I have done a couple of watercolor pieces and they curl up because of the water. I don't like that, so I looked around for solutions to fix this curling annoyance. The more popular choice was to stretch the canvas. To do this you must first soak the watercolor paper for about 15 minutes. Then you let all the excess water drip off and tape it to a board. You then have to let it dry for 24 hours. This method consists of time and preparation.
I have decided that I am lazy.
The other option is to create watercolor pieces on watercolor blocks. On watercolor blocks the canvases are already stretched. That sounds like a better way to go. However, I have all this loose paper that I need to use. I don't want to be wasteful. So I am going to try to tape it on a board before I paint on it. Here is the WIP pictures of this week's art piece with my tape test.
In the last image, the painting is off the board and it has very little curling. I like this method better and I recommend it to impatient people like me who just want to jump into a painting without much prep work.
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