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Hi Rita- first I just want to make sure you are using a hot press watercolor paper. It looks like a smooth surface so I assume you are. Next, you said you are putting watercolor over a color pencil base. You can do that, but the majority of how we work is laying the watercolor down (after applying Grisaille toning with a color pencil) and than starting to work in earnest with the color pencils. The color pencils help even out the tone even if you haven’t made the watercolor layer as smooth as possible. You are usually so good with your color saturation and I haven’t noticed a texture issue on your drawings before. Did you change papers?