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    Stretching Finished Watercolour Paintings

    Dec 02, 2016 2 minutes
    By Leonie Norton

    With botanical art or wildlife painting, where not much water is used in mixing colours (compared to landscape or other forms of watercolour painting), there is no need to stretch the paper before painting.

    If the washes in a painting are too wet, there are

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