The A5 "Anna & Clara's Watercolour Paper" pad of 20 x 200 grams + 10 x 300 grams I bought for 34.90 NOK (or 3.20 EUR) from #SøstreneGrene is not great imho... I think it's probably more aimed at gouache than aquarelle...
I find it too smooth, and water mostly just pools up too much on top of it... The field of flowers was painted on the 200 grams paper, but as the (lack of) texture is the same on the 300 grams sheets, I doubt those will be much better. Though I bet the latter will at least buckle and warp less.

The A5 "Anna & Clara's Watercolour Paper Acid-Free" pad with 10 x 230 grams white sheets + 10 x 230 grams black sheets onto which I painted the bottom-left #BaldursGate scene is more like the similar paper I got and used previously from Søstrene Grene (which I used for the top-left Baldur's Gate scene).
It has quite some more texture, and —most importantly— it absorbs the water and paints better. I suspect it's actually the same paper, but now the pads have half their sheets replaced with black sheets.

I kinda wish they'd put the original pads back into their assortment instead, as the black sheets are more useful for metallic water colour paints, which I currently don't have. I guess I could play around with mixing the white gouache with my aquarelle paints, and use that on the black sheets?
At 23.30 NOK (or 1.98 EUR) for 20 sheets, it's cheap aquarelle paper that works quite well for my practice sessions, but with half of the sheets being basically unusable for me, it's not as affordable as the pads they previously sold...

I still want to add some more foliage to the first Baldur's Gate painting (top-left), but I wanted to wait for daytime sunlight before working on it again, so instead I started a new one without looking at the example.
(And I'll probably want to scan the first one before working on it again, in case I ruin it...)

The cute little ghost on A6 paper is the main character from #MrGhost aka #Yuureikun for the #MSX, which I painted two days ago. Painted with just the #PrussianBlue and the #OpaqueWhite from the #RoyalTalens' #VanGogh series. I was tempted to add the light-green background to it that one of the example screenshots had, but ended up just sticking to the monochrome version you see here.
This paper is a fine-grained cold pressed cotton rag postcard paper from #Fabriano, which I got many years ago as a kid, but never really used till recently. I always found the paper too precious, and considered my skills lacking too much to make proper use of it. It's only recently that I've felt comfortable using it.

I'll take proper pictures of them by daylight tomorrow, and will maybe add some more detailed image descriptions then as well.

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Picked up my package of new #waterColour / #aquarelle #paints today, so it was also time to clean up and re-arrange my #waterColours #painting case.
Added six new half-pans from #RoyalTalens' #VanGogh brand which I'd ordered last week from #Panduro here in Norway.
All of them are new colours to me, so I'm looking forward to swatching them and putting them to use. Some of them are convenience colours (Permanent Yellow-Green and Permanent Orange).
Another is a different shade of red (Vermillion Red, in addition to the Permanent Red Deep from earlier) because I didn't like the ones that came in the Panduro base set.
Others are to try them out and compare them to the ones I already use, such as the Gamboge Yellow 238 (which looked nice and vibrant on the online sample), and Prussian Blue (because it's such an often referenced colour, and I'm not always satisfied with the ultramarine).
And finally some Opaque White, so I don't have to mix guache with my aquarelle paints when I want to add some white.

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And a quick #dailyPhoto of the #artSupplies used:

• #NassauFineArt #AquarelBrushMarkers (20 colours + water brush) by #ArtSensations / #CraftSensations B.V. from the #Netherlands
• Aquarel fine grain #watercolour paper pad (300 GSM / 140 LB A4, 20 sheets), also by Nassau Fine Art. Not great paper imho, but very affordable.

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Unfortunately the local #Panduro shop had only 4 of the 6 of 7 #VanGogh water colour paints that I wanted to get.
On top of that, contrary to the webshop, they apparently only had a 3-for-2 offer, rather than the flat 33%-off offer online. Which meant I ended up getting only the Permanent Red Deep, Lemon Yellow and Cerulean Blue, and leaving the Prussian Blue for the next time they have an offer.
Unfortunately the physical shop didn't carry the Indian Yellow nor the Gamboge 238, nor the Permanent Yellow Green 633 that I also considered getting.

I will see tomorrow though if their webcare team can clarify why there is a difference in offers online and in their brick-and-mortar shops while it's not being made clear on their website as such.

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Local #artSupplies shop has 33% off on #VanGogh #waterColours half-pans, so now might be a good time to fill my #aquarel #painting set again.

Definitely running low on yellow and orange, and light blue, and I still want to try out a different red and dark blue.

Will probably add permanent red, Indian Yellow or Gamboge 238, Prussian Blue, Cerulean Pthalo Blue, and Permanent Yellow Green 633 to my palette.

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