Hi Teoh! Personally I like every surface, but I like most ceramic for studio painting and metal or plastic for sketching outside.
I just want to give you my point of view on roughen up the surface, I don't think its so useful for 3 reason:
1. The rough surface could shorten the life of the brush, specially if you use only synthetic brush like me, I understand is very light the roughness but watercolor brushes ar meant to be used on paper (even rough paper), not on rough plastic or metal.
2. Small pools ar not that big issue in my opinion, and maybe depends on the surface, I have a light irregular ceramic palette that make small pools!
3. The surface can't be cleaned up easily like if they're smooth.
But this is my point of view, nice feed as always, I really love your blog and youtube channel.
Hi Teoh! Personally I like every surface, but I like most ceramic for studio painting and metal or plastic for sketching outside.
I just want to give you my point of view on roughen up the surface, I don't think its so useful for 3 reason:
1. The rough surface could shorten the life of the brush, specially if you use only synthetic brush like me, I understand is very light the roughness but watercolor brushes ar meant to be used on paper (even rough paper), not on rough plastic or metal.
2. Small pools ar not that big issue in my opinion, and maybe depends on the surface, I have a light irregular ceramic palette that make small pools!
3. The surface can't be cleaned up easily like if they're smooth.
But this is my point of view, nice feed as always, I really love your blog and youtube channel.