Water Colors

weepingwillow256 asked:


I have worked with water color alot back in high school and always stretched my smaller papers my using the old tape it to a drawing board method, but now i have a BIG water color paper. My niece wants a portrait of herself (there is an old big one of her older sister at around the same age, which i did in acrylic, but I can’t afford to buy that much acrylic paint lol) and it has to be big. so i went out and bought a big sheet of water color paper today and realized that i can’t think of any board i can find big enough to stretch it. so i was wondering what my options are. I’d prefer not to have buckling all over the place, and i can’t exactly be carrying it around while it’s wet and i’m painting on it anyway.

can i stretch it directly on a table?
i used to tape big projects in acrylic and oil to a wall if i couldn’t find any other space, but i can’t do this with water color because the colors will run down the page.
what if i stretched it on a floor?
any ideas would help.
well i always stretched it with a sponge and butcher paper before, i just haven’t worked with anything so big before, now that you mentioned it though, the floor would get it dirty, even if it was a clean floor, something would happen, cuz that’s how the world works.