CansonXL Series Watercolor Textured Paper Pad for Paint, Pencil, Ink, Charcoal, Pastel, and Acrylic, Fold Over, 140 Pound, 18 x 24 Inch, 30 Sheets

Great for the price

Best paper I work with and everytime it goes on sale I get lots of these

Good size and thick paper, satisfied.👍

The material of the paper itself is really awesome and suit all levels of artistic issues, really love it.

Remarkably, good product, it is like how it was described.The only negative comment would be put the product in better packaging as the corners had come little bent

This book is amazing! It has thick pages and definitely hold water color!I like how you can tear pages out to frame or put it somewhere else!

Great value. Prompt delivery. Not used as yet but looks promising.

Really love this paper, works great.

Llego muy rápido!

なぜか日本の画材屋さんにはこのサイズが取り扱いないので購入。色見本作るのに丁度良いサイズ。用紙はフランス製じゃなくアメリカ製でした。

Produto ok, com custo benefício. Porém não tem a melhor qualidade para pinturas mais elaboradas.

Please enjoy my painted sort of masterpiece on this paper. I have plenty of praise for this product and it surpassed my expectations.I know it’s watercolor paper, but I got it to use with gouache paint on the advice of a friend. The paper stood up well to the paint, which is a sort of chalky-feeling middle ground between acrylic and watercolor. It can be rough on paper, too thick or destructive if the consistency is wrong, but this paper took it all and then some.I had to paint the background twice in this painting. I screwed up the area so badly that I had to put down a second layer of gouache over the first. The first layer of color didn’t come up through the first or weaken the paper.When working with watercolor or gouache, it’s best to put tape down around the edges. This keeps the paper flat while the wet paint dries, but the tape has a bad habit of ripping some paper when it’s removed.This paper didn’t tear or lift when I removed the tape. I suggest following the tradition of running the tape against your clothing before putting it down, and when you peel it off, do so slowly and at a 90 degree angle and it will do just fine.The paper also held its shape when I hung it with poster puddy. Some types of paper show the puddy on the front, but it didn’t telegraph to the front on this one.Overall, I’m glad I listened to my friend’s advice when picking the product. It made me very happy and I’m glad it’s living up to my expectatoins.

If you're planning, as I was, to make a watercolor sketchbook with this, it's grain short, with the grain running parallel to the 11 inch side. Even so, and even with the glue being on the short edge, this falls apart quite easily, a plus for me because that means no tearing. A minus if you intend to keep the book intact.If you want the best paper out there, go with Arches. If you plan to do the curriculum with Watercolor College, Chris Lyonn, the instructor, has stated if you're in the US, just go get that. I tried this on a lark, and he's not wrong. It can't do the things Arches can, for the techniques in that class.That said, if you're painting with Sarah Cray over at Let's Make Art, this is the exact paper she uses, or at least used to until they released their home brand, and it works perfectly for everything she teaches.The difference? While both embrace the spontaneous nature of watercolor, especially in things like clouds and trees, Chris avoids blooms and the rough, unblended edges they create. Sarah embraces blooms and the visual interest they provide. This paper makes it easier to get, harder to avoid, blooms. Chris works with natural pigment tube and pan based paints from brands like Winsor and Newton and Daniel Smith, favoring the lightfast properties and colors more suited to realistic paintings. Sarah favors dye-based liquid watercolors from brands like Dr. Ph Martins for their brighter colors better suited to illustrative painting. This works better with those dye-based paints, not as well with the tube and pan. So it's either perfect or meh, depending on your intention.Additionally, this is popular with the urban sketch crowd because it is a stable, strong paper that can put up with a lot of reworking the under drawing without damage to the paper fibers. If that's what you are looking for, then this is a great choice. That's my planned use for it, once it's in a sketchbook form. That property of ease of reworking makes it ideal for beginners.