I just wanted to share an easy remedy or tip that really works.

I used a lightweight 90lb watercolour paper for my last painting, but silly me taped around it with washi tape as I would for a pencil drawing or portrait just to keep the edges clean.

I started by painting my lovely wet in wet sky, so you can imagine; as it started to dry, the resulting waves my paper decided to add to my seascape (and not in a good way)!

My paper had lighter hills and darker valleys in my sky.

I have heard a few tips to help resolve this, from weighing the buckled paper down with heavy books to ironing on the reverse. However, I remembered a great tip I learned years ago to remedy warped and wavy paper and thought I'd share.

Let your painting or in my case half painted page fully dry. Lay it face down flat over a clean tea towel or kitchen paper then paint the reverse with a few washes of clean water until it straightens out. Paint a layer of clean water over your board then put your still wet paper, painting side up this time, over the wet area of the board and stick the edges of the painting down fully with gumstrip sealing tape as you would normally when stretching it.

I let my paper fully dry again and my lightweight 90lb paper behaved beautifully after this, perfectly flat throughout for completing my painting. Has anyone else tried this ?