Bench
Start a new test, revisit fresh sheets, and see which dry reviews are due.
A personal watercolor paper laboratory
See what remains after the water leaves.
Paper Cast helps watercolor artists record how a sheet behaves while wet, return after it dries, and compare the two phases without relying on memory.
A repeatable studio routine
01Choose a paper from your stock.
02Describe the technique, water, and pigments.
03Log the wet observation without predicting the result.
04Return after drying and compare the shift.
Inside Paper Cast
Five views of the same material story.
Paper Cast keeps paper profiles, test sheets, observations, notes, and comparisons connected. The result is a personal record of how materials behave in your own hands, with your own techniques.
Sheets
Keep a searchable archive of techniques, pigments, water levels, photos, and phase-specific notes.
Stock
Organize paper by brand, weight, texture, cotton content, format, favorites, and your own tags.
Drydown
Compare wet and dry ratings for edge control, color depth, granulation, buckling, lifting, and surface fatigue.
Mixbook
Look across completed tests to find recurring patterns for washes, glazing, detail work, lifting, and layered corrections.
Private by design
Your studio records stay on your device. Paper Cast works without accounts, cloud sync, or a backend.
Built for observation
Wet ratings are never copied into dry ratings. Each phase is recorded separately so the comparison remains useful.
Your experience, not a verdict
Patterns are based on your own test history and presented as studio notes, not universal claims about a material.
Developer
Kent Rasmussen
Paper Cast is an independent iPhone utility created for artists who want a calm, structured record of watercolor paper behavior.