Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Save your money, it bleeds. I burnished the tape twice to be sure it was on the paper as best as possible. This tape had "lines" on it that reminded me of duct tape but when pulled from the roll this were no longer visible. I compared three tapes for a project. I am making an extensive color chart for all of my watercolors for value, intensity and mixing colors. I need a lot of tape for this project so testing different kinds of "artist tape" or delicate surface painters tape was the best way to find which would better suit my needs. I compared this Scotch 1/8" "artist tape", 3M 2080 (blue) 1/8" tape and 3M 2090 (blue) 1/8" tape. The 3M brand is for delicate surface painters masking tape. The picture below will show you my results with the three tapes. The noticeable difference between these tapes when using them: Scotch Artist Tape 1/8" - on the roll you can see faint lines but when pulled from the roll they disappear. This tape is plastic and tearing it is not hard but instead of a tear it is like pulling on a thin plastic grocery bag and the adhesive is no longer active where the tape was stretched from trying to "tear" or pull the tape. applying it was easy and the adhesive was a nice tacky strength for watercolor paper. I knew that if it kept the paint from seeping underneath it would be a nice choice (if the price wasn't so high for such a little roll) I paid just over $5 with prime shipping. 3M 2080 (1/8") and 2090 (1/8"), both I paid under $3 with prime shipping. 3m 2070 and 2090 were very similar with only a few noticeable differences. Both blue in color the 2090 was slightly darker and tackier than the 2080. Both were very easy to tear and easy to lay down. I burnished the corners of the tape were they overlapped. Just with the scotch artist tape I burnished each brand exactly the same except I did it twice for the Scotch tape because I didn't feel good adhesion like the others until the second time around. I used 140 lb Cold Press watercolor paper and different values with a Cobalt blue deep. I decided to use the 3M 2090 for Cold Press and the 2080 when I need to use Hot Press because it is again slightly less tacky and from testing that particular one on the smooth surface it gave me the results I needed.