 Welcome pastel artists and those wanting to learn more about pastel painting. This is a quick tip about Something I know a lot of us have experienced I did a video a couple of years ago about how to straighten out warped you art paper you art sanded paper is awesome But many of us have expressed our frustration with how it can warp and curl Especially in humid climates where I live these are some photos I found online of other artists who are equally as frustrated with you art paper curling like this I've tried many ways to straighten this out But I think I have the best way that I've ever found and I'm sharing it with you from my own bathroom. Here we go Hello art family. I know that my guest bathroom is an odd place to be filming something for artistic purposes However, there is a point to this and the bathroom is the best place to do it right now I'm going to show you a fix for a challenge that many of you have had and I've had over the years And I have had minimal success at fixing this challenge But I found something the other day kind of a happy accident that may be the solution. What is that problem? Is the fact that you art paper curls a lot in humid climates, especially where I live I found this to happen a whole lot when our home flooded two years ago And I had a lot of my u-art paper that did this, but it'll do this You know even in my home in a very nicely air conditioned home. I'll still get the curling situation So it can be really hard to work with after you paint and you know, then you I put them in the plastic bags And trying to work with it curled. So here's something I discovered I'm going to take this piece of u-art paper And a sponge that I'm going to dampen with some water And a regular blow dryer But the the tip of the blow dryer is like this This is one that kind of comes on and off and it's just got that flat Tip that you can actually put right on the surface. Okay, so what I'm going to do is on the Let's not put my blow dryer in the sink with water Is on the surface of the sand inside. Okay I'm going to dampen my sponge a little bit. You don't want it so wet that it's just drippy wet And then I'm going to take my u-art paper and I'm going to wet it on the On the u-art sanded side. I'm getting a little bit of that sponge Residue on there, but it's okay. It was brushed right off. I'm also noticing it This works as a really good eraser too. I had some pencil lines on this side And um, I just wiped them right off. So it's just like a clean Piece of u-art paper. All right, so we've got our piece here. That's wet Flatten it out a little bit blow dry the back side It's always experimenting around here. All right, so let's make sure we get this right And this took less than a couple of minutes to get it dry and once it was dry Sure enough, it was as flat as it could be ready to put on my easel And uh, I actually already completed the painting for my next tutorial So stay tuned for another fun and informative art lesson from Monet cafe. Happy painting