Canson XL Series Watercolor Textured Paper Pad for Paint, Pencil, Ink, Charcoal, Pastel, and Acrylic, Fold Over, 140 Pound, 9x12 Inch, , 30 Sheets

This is a great affordable watercolor paper

Excelente papel, embalaje y tiempo de entrega. ¡Mucas gracias!

For a beginner like me, this is perfect: there’s a lot of paper at a reasonable price. But this paper dries so fast it’s hard to blend colors and results in weird blots when the colors dry.

Thick, heavyweight stock can withstand the most vigorous and enthusiastic child artists! Easy to cleanly tear off a new sheet so there is no waste. The pad is portable but we plan on using it primarily at home.

Unfortunately, probably due to shipping or something in Amazons warehouse, this product came damaged when delivered to me. I have another similar product from the same company, for pencil drawings, and everything was fine on it, but you can see the damage. Im guessing something hit the corner there, which completely dislodged the paper sheets from the protective cover. Also, the glue that holds the papers together individually was cracked pretty dramatically (maybe this was an older manufactured version? The glue must be pretty old for it to crack like that). I could probably trim off that edge for my finished pieces, but that means my clients will probably have to find unique frame fittings for them. Bummer, but still great paper.

In this size I cut them in half and its a good deal. The paper is thick so you need a good cutter to get sharp edges, I use a cutter that has a platform set up with a roller blade, not handheld. Ive purchased this brand of paper many times, its always a consistent quality.

The colors do NOT fade. Here is a comparison and biased against Canson since the Fluid paper is hot press and 100% cotton. I used Schminke Horadam pan paints. I do have three Kremer colors (also pans) and one of the Indigo swatches is Holbein (tube). From the fading and piling complaints of other reviewers, it sounds as if the sizing was missing and they got a bad batch. I would check who the seller was for those reviews. I havent done large washes with it, so I cant attest to buckling. I usually cut down and use it for small studies and for color testing and swatch mixes. For the price level of this paper it is excellent.

There was some sort of dried mud on the cover? not that big of a deal though, Also the cover comes off of the paper? i dont know if im happy it does. Otherwise its a great product and i recommend

This is good paper to learn your water color skills on. You can move up to arches when you feel youve master water flow with paint and if you use pencil weight on paper its good for mixed media I do watercolor and pen and marker so its good to practice on .. have fun learining

Paper is ok. It’s super cheap so what can one expect? I have tried a few kinds and I think there are better options at the same price point. Try the “ucreate” brand (140 lb weight) - I just bought my second pack on amazon today. I think it is much better paper than this. This is fine for practice but the paint doesn’t spread that well. So fit my practice budget paper I prefer Ucreate.