Canson Artist Series, 9"X12", 0

Thick pages. The paint doesn't bleed through. Nice travel size note book and its made in a way so you can fold it and leave 1 page out to paint on. I was worried about jagged edges if I want to tear it out and frame it or something, but the pages come perforated at the binder so you can get a nice square page from it.

Used in both side and loved the notebook great to take it with you due to the convenient size will definitely purchase it again on a promotion

When I got the paper pad, it wasn't sealed and 2 pages are missing.

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No es un bloc de papel barato sino todo lo contrario: es un papel costoso debido a la gran calidad del mismo. Por tal motivo considero que el empaque debe ser elegido con más cuidado. Por lo menos que estuviera emplayado y en un empaque más ceñido ya que llegó en una caja mucho más grande que el producto y por ello hubiera podido sufrir daños en las esquinas. No fue mi caso. A mí me llegaron en buen estado, con las esquinas intactas. Creo que tuve suerte. Lo mínimo sería que estuvieran forrados con algún plástico o celofán para protegerlo contra el polvo y la humedad. En general el producto es muy bueno. Pensé que el grano de la textura sería un poco más fino sin embargo no es tan grueso como algunos otros papeles para acuarela. El producto es muy recomendable.

I've used several different brands of high quality watercolour paper, and this is just the best. It will even take a certain amount of scrubbing before pilling. And it has really high water-absorbency which grants you more time to work wet on wet. Now I've discovered this French high quality paper (made from cotton fibres), I won't be buying any other brand. It comes in a pad that you pull off sheets to paint on, mask-taped to a support, and also a ring-bound pad which you can paint onto directly then remove later, or just keep as a collection on the pad. (They even do a small pad (5.5 x 8.5) for watercolour sketching/plein aire, and it's ring-bound so it opens fully!) They do several sizes , btw., not just these two.

Watercolor paper is so tough to choose for me. With brands being so different it's almost become a personal style preference on which paper to use. Not many reputable companies make portable affordable options like this. It's a great value so I'm not worried about "wasting my paper" and it's portable enough to grab-n-paint so that I can keep myself motivated to paint without having to pull out my grand watercolor set-up and make a huge mess while doing so. It's not Arches, there is a limit to how many layers you can do before it starts to get finicky with you - but it's also not some cheap paper that will just wrinkle up as soon as you put a decent wash on it. It takes pen ink very nicely and the paint color remains nice once dry. If you're not planning a project with 10+ layer effects, or plan to use it as a practice sketchbook then this is my go-to paper for value and consistency. I also love that spiral sketchbooks lay flat, and I totally use the backs of the paper for color testing or thumbnailing.

I can see that I am going to have to buy another pad of this Canson Artist Series Montval Watercolor Paper very soon. I love it for all my papercrafting and mixed media pages - Great with my Gel Press as well!

Papel de celulose, mas de fabricação mould made. Resiste bem a técnica wet on wet e correções. Excelente papel, superior ao Montval tradicional e consegui comprar na promoção com valor similar ao tradicional.