REDCOLLIE WATERCOLOUR PAPER STRETCHERS

Ideal for watercolour classes.

Stretch your watercolour paper with ease – No more gum strip!

This infallible device takes the chore out of stretching watercolour paper of all weights. You may never need to buy brown paper tape again!

All who have attempted watercolour painting will know the frustration of painting on unstretched paper…even the heaviest papers can cockle and buckle under a wash, causing the paint to flow unevenly and ruining your work. Let’s face it…watercolour painting can be difficult enough, so anything which makes it technically easier has to be a bonus. The cure is to pre-stretch your paper, which normally means soaking the paper and then sticking it to your drawing board with old-fashioned brown-paper tape or loads of drawing pins, both very haphazard and unreliable methods. Get the paper too wet and it can tear as it dries or even break the board; get the tape too wet and it won’t stick at all! Furthermore you have to let the paper dry naturally which can take several hours. By the time you have achieved a perfectly stretched sheet of paper you are almost frightened to use it!

Watercolour paper is not cheap and wasted sheets can make it an expensive and frustrating hobby. As a watercolour teacher I needed a reliable device to stretch several sheets a day quickly and effortlessly, hence this invention.