Strathmore300 Series Charcoal, Paper, White, 11x17

Lovely quality paper,

The cover was not on properly, so one edge of paper was exposed. Had to return it .

Good quality paper. Ideal for charcoal work.

I liked it and would purchase again

Una maravilla, aguantan el pigmento de forma increíble, se trabaja muy muy bonito.

This paper has a weird texture to it. If you blend out your charcoal with a paper blender, you see a woven texture appear. It's a cool effect if you're drawing a photo and want that grainy texture, but if you're looking for a smooth finish to your art, I'd look elsewhere

This is a go-to paper for me. I love working in charcoal and this has an excellent tooth, which is valuable in three ways.1. It can hold a large build-up of charcoal for getting extremely deep, dark shadows.2. It can stand a lot of reworking and erasing without showing any damage or unwanted texture in the final work. That's hard with charcoal.3. It can handle a lot of blending and rubbing without loosing its texture and ability to hold charcoal.I go through this pretty quickly. It's a favorite. This is the one most commonly recommended by teachers I've studied under, justifiably so. As one teacher said, you don't want to fight the materials. If you give 100% effort to a material that can only give you 85%, you'll only get 85% results. Go with quality. This is going to give you 100%.

Arrived damaged and all separated from the cover, tears on 2-3 pages on each side! It is obvious that it was hard not to see it was damaged when they packed it!