You Get What You Pay For

I want to work with better paper, but 300lb. watercolor paper is extremely expensive. I don’t feel the work I’m producing at this early learning stage justifies the expense.
I found a paper that claimed to be 240lb. at a very reasonable price, so gave it a try.
It’s awful. It caused numerous problems with this piece, which I almost abandoned. I finished it with Barbie’s encouragement.
I won’t be using this paper for watercolor again, maybe it’ll be okay with colored pencils.

Shells
Watercolor
2.5” x  3.5”
Done : 8/16-8/17 2019