Bainbridge 80 Cold Press Illustration Board 20x30

Have you ever looked closely, and I mean really close at the surface of your watercolor paper? If you have, you've perhaps noticed that some papers have this bumpy texture, whereas others don't. So what is the purpose of having bumps on your paper and not having bumps on your paper? Well, what you are looking at is actually the texture of your paper, and sometimes this is referred to as the tooth of your paper. But why is it that this texture is so important? Well, what we have stumbled upon is actually the difference between two types of watercolor paper and that is hot press as well as cold press paper. Now, there is another form of watercolor paper that does have bumps called rough paper. But for this particular video, I'm just going to be concentrating on hot versus cold press paper. So what is the difference between hot and cold press paper? Well, hot press paper actually feels ver