With yupo paper, the most influential element is water.

diluted watercolor paint in watercolor will dry making nice textures and a darker outline, you can see them on that detail of a painting. If you don't like those outline you can remove them afterwards, when the paint has dried:

• If the paint runs too fast on your paper you can slow it down by adding some soap ( I usually keep a soap in a dish next to my paper when I am painting on yupo).
• You can layer watercolors on yupo , but it's tricky, you have to be very careful of not letting your brush go two times on the same place, it would disturb the paint. I would recommend letting the paint dry completely before trying (like overnight).

• Layering acrylics is easier, although they can still slip on the paper, especially if you added soap. For layering acrylics I would recommend adding gel medium, it will make them adhere more on the paper. You can also add gel medium to your watercolors.
• One of the main advantage of Yupo paper is that it will let you easily remove any paint. This is liberating if you are used to watercolor!
  If the paint is still wet, any tissue paper, dry brush or Q-tip will work. If the paint is dry just re-wet the areas you want to remove. Here I removed some of the paint to make the polka dots on the dress with a Q-tip.

• For the dark areas on your painting you can use the following technique. Use watercolor paint almost direct from the tube, it will be easy to manage, then use a clean new tissue paper and put it on the still wet area you just painted, it will add some transparency to your dark. I used this technique on " I do ballet 2":

• Spraying alcohol on wet paint will work great on yupo paper, see my page with a comparative chart of textures on yupo paper

• You can try acrylics and mixed media on yupo. I made the following painting with acrylics diluted in gel medium, pastels, collage and watercolors. See my page on media you can use on yupo paper for more details.


If you are interested in traditional Watercolor on watercolor paper demonstrations,with a layering technique, you can go on my website for watercolor painting. I also have a few demonstrations for mixed media painting on my mixed media painting website.