Canson XL Series Watercolor Pad, Heavyweight White Paper, Side Wire Binding, 30 Sheets, 9x12 inch

I bought this for Practice paper, but was surprised to find what high-quality it is. Now I keep reaching for it to do permanent paintings.

This is one of the best deals I've seen on watercolor paper. This is excellent paper at a terrific price.I started doing watercolor again recently after about 25 years' haitus. As you can imagine, brands and types of papers, paints, and other watercolor supplies have grown exponentially since I last did watercolor, so I had to buy several different brands and types of paper before I found the one I love.THIS IS IT, in case that wasn't already clear. It has the perfect balance of texture and uniformity in both finish and thickness without the typical roughness of other mid-grade cold-pressed papers. Plus, it accepts both color and wash beautifully and consistently.It's also heavy enough to not warp/buckle much when you do extensive color washing without taping. That's not to say it DOESN'T buckle at all, but I lay down tons of water on some of my prints and also never tape my paper down before I start to work. Have to say: I am really impressed with how little this warps, all that considered....even with heavy water dumps.***BTW:****The easiest remedy for the warping and buckling, I've found, is to let the work completely dry--24 hours, on the safe side--then turn it, face down, onto an ironing board with a firm piece of clean, unbent high-density cardboard that's larger than my print so I can iron it flat. I iron my work gently, with the iron set between "low cotton" and "low linen", depending on the amount of buckling. I also use the lowest setting of steam on my iron. Because it really helps to quickly even out wash-warping.Works much better than pre-taping!

I like the size this paper offers, and if I need it to be smaller it's easy to cut down into two equally convenient pieces. The paper is pretty good for it's price point and I can see myself buying more when this pad runs out. It's not great for travel given the size, but it makes up for that with the easy release of paper from the pad leaving no glue residue along one side unlike some other pads I've used. The texture feels like a mix of hot and cold press making fine detail easy without forgoing the texture watercolor paper is known for. I'm not sure how it holds the test of time but I guess we'll have to see. I've included a picture because Amazon seems to think I can't post this review without one.

I am getting in to watercolor painting and the price is a right for me to use as I am learning a bit about the medium.

The paper is good Quality, nice and thick but I was hoping for more paper, but honestly it’s not bad at all 9/10

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.

I cut my pages in half to make 5in. Scrapbook cards & use it for ink blending. Amazing quality, durable paper. Great thickness. The paper is so fun to handle, hard to mess up.

we purchased this water color paper to distribute to my husbands college students for projects in his theatre design classes

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It’s water colour paper… hard to get it wrong but hard to get it great. Cans on paper never disappoints the quality is always amazingI wish more sheets came in a pack for the price and the blue cover fell off the paper soon as I took it out the box but that isn’t a huge issueOverall really good quality and definitely recommend as a fine art student

Para a finalidade do que irei utilizar , gostei!!!!

El producto llegó muy rápido y es de muy buena calidad. Lo recomiendo

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