Effects of Various Papers on Your Work
As mentioned earlier, the specific support on which a drawing, print, or watercolor is made produces a different visual phenomenon than the drawing, print, or painting would make if designed on any other kind or quality of paper.
When considering three-dimensional treatments of paper (when paper is treated as a medium in its own right) the nature of the materials used in making paper, the length of beating time, and other myriad factors enter into complex relationships that guarantee the uniqueness of our own handmade paper. These factors cannot but help influence artistic expression to some degree as we, in turn, bend the handmade paper to our own esthetic ends.
The relationship between figure and ground, between image and its support, between the design and the particular paper cannot but engage the eye actively, as it contemplates the composition.
Thus, the same image on a smooth, shiny, bright paper; on white, off-white, gray, or other colored paper; on heavily textured, coarse, tough paper; or on a highly personalized sheet of your own handmade paper designed to fit that image is a different total image.
