Explore the perfect watercolour paper for your practice

The right paper can transform your watercolour work — affecting everything from pigment flow to texture, layering, and lifting. But with so many surfaces to choose from, it can be hard to know where to start!

Our Watercolour Paper Sample Pack is designed to make that discovery process easier. It offers a curated introduction to ten exceptional watercolour papers, helping you test, compare, and find the perfect fit for your materials and methods.

This sample pack includes papers with a range of textures — from the smooth ‘hot pressed’, to gently textured ‘cold pressed’ and the highly textured ‘rough’ — as well as a mix of 100% cotton and innovative eco-fibre blends.

Each pack includes a carefully curated selection of 10 premium watercolour papers, with two generous sample sizes of each — ideal for testing, comparing, and discovering your favourite papers. Each sample is an eighth of its sheet size (approximately smaller than A4 but larger than A5!).

This selection is just a small glimpse into the full range available at Melbourne Etching
Supplies. Many of these papers come in additional weights, tones, and formats.
To explore more, visit our online store or drop into MES Fairfield or MES Fitzroy.

Watercolour Paper Sampler:

1. Hahnemühle Harmony 300gsm Rough
2. Hahnemühle Harmony 300gsm HP
3. Hahnemühle Expression Watercolour CP 100% Cotton
4. Hahnemühle Natural Line Sugar Cane Watercolour 290gsm
5. Fluid Watercolour HP 300gsm
6. Fabriano Artistico CP Traditional White 200gsm
7. Fabriano Artistico HP Extra White 300gsm
8. Arches CP 300gsm
9. Arches HP 185gsm
10. Saunders CP 300gsm