The sketchbooks are not cheap, but they are lovely to use and wonderful for those of us who enjoy working on 100% cotton watercolour paper. Will take pencil crayon, light watercolour wash, some markers (bleed through expected) and maybe acrylics with gesso. I find these great sketchbooks for exploration, play, notes, and all the little things that seem more appropriate to do in a sketchbook rather than in my diary/notebook. It comes with three separate blocks of colour but I took a spiral-bound one apart, mixed up the pages, and put it back together to have a more random book. You can see that there is some warping of the paper, which is really to be expected with a 150gsm sketchbook.

Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. When paper weight is noted in pounds, it refers to the weight of 500 sheets (a ream) of a certain size of the paper.It doesn't have a back pocket, as many do, but it does have a a strong elastic closure which helps protect it in a bag, and a bookmark.

This journal features archival paper that is excellent for watercolor, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pen and ink, colored pencil, marker, pastel and collage.

They come in a good range of shapes and sizes, including A5 Large Landscape format (shown left), a similar sized portrait format, the 8¼" x 8¼" square (shown left), a cute 3 ⅓" x 8 ¼" Pocket Panorama, and a larger 10½" x 8 ¼" Grand Portrait format. The lightly-textured matte covers are a beautiful dark chocolate brown and the durable Smyth-sewn binding allows pages to lay flat so that your drawings can spread across the pages.

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