FROGTAPE CF 160 Multi-Use Painter's Tape with PAINTBLOCK for Delicate Surfaces, 24mm x 55m, Yellow, 1 Roll (105550)

I have used almost a mile of this tape making barn quilts in the upstate NY area. I strongly recommend using the YELLOW frog tape. The secret to success is to paint the lightest color first, let's say white. Then, when you tape off the white areas for painting light blue, paint along the edge of the tape with white paint - the same color that is under the tape. I run my finger back and forth along the edge of the tape to force the tape down and to make sure the edges are sealed by the new paint. Messy, but it works. Any tape will have some color bleeding under it. This way the white bleeds under onto the white that was there originally, so it does not show. When taping to protect the light blue, paint along the edges with light blue. This approach will save HOURS of touch up and frustration, and produce ALMOST perfect straight edges.

I bought this for taping down watercolor paper with the intention of removing the tape after painting. The blue tape ripped my paper no matter how much I rubbed it on my clothes and furniture to reduce its stickiness. The yellow tape seemed super sticky too when I pulled it off the roll, but I’m happy to report that I was able to (carefully) remove it from paper with no rips! So happy to find this yellow tape solved my problem.

As a full time muralist, I started using this tape about a year ago. I love it. Leaves a nice clean edge and even better, it's slightly translucent, so I can place the tape over my drawing and still see the lines. Perfect. However...... I think I ordered two twin packs of this tape. One roll arrived partially used. Nice. It wasn't much. Maybe 15 or 20 feet? I noticed that the end of the tape of one roll wasn't straight and was kind of crinkled. Not usual. So when I laid that roll on top of another roll that looked unused, it was about and eighth of an inch smaller in diameter. So...not good. Somebody was a bad boy or girl:-) Not a huge deal....

Great tape to use with watercolor paper. Seals well!

Frog tape is great stuff. Ordinarily it would get 5 stars from me. However Frog needs update their advertising pics. This one shows the original packaging, the plastic container with a lid. The one my first roll of Frog tape came in finally gave out in January. I’ve been looking for a new one since then and thought this might be it…but nnooo. It’s a little thing but this is for painting! I really appreciated the tub it was tons better than using a plastic zipper bag to try keeping construction site dirt off of painters tape.

Easy to remove from watercolor paper without tearing it.

We got this to hold artwork in place while spraying. It does a decent job, but extreme care must be exercised to avoid pulling off part of the paper being held in place. I'll be trying something else.

Frogtape comes in yellow and green. I find the yellow one is much easier to work with as it is thinner and you can shape it a little easier than the green one. The yellow one is also for delicate surfaces so it far less likely to peel paint off when removing the tape. It really does work too! The paint lines are as sharp as can be. One note with using this, or any other painting tape, As soon as you are done painting a section then you should remove the tape as soon as possible. I thought that I should wait until the paint dried but that was a mistake because some of your new paint will be torn up as you remove the tape. So, make sure that your new paint is still wet when removing the tape!