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Gilles T.
Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2025
Très bon rapport qualité-prix. Ce n'est pas du coton mais du papier alors ça gondole un peu. Prévoir un mouillage sous ruban et séchage avant de peindre avec de l'aquarelle. Tout de même bien avec de la gouache sans préparation car deux côtés sont collés.
Badwolfmom
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2025
Great quality. Great price.
Wendy Slowski
Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2024
By the name of the sketchbook I had assumed there was something special about this paper. I was wrong. Most of the sheets are glued together and I tore a few opening them up. The paper is thin and easily buckles. Don't waste your money - buy some regular watercolour paper.
Mrs. A
Reviewed in Canada on May 5, 2024
love the sealed edges for stability with wet washes , great size , use as daily journal of painting
Jordan
Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2024
The paper is glued down on the sides to prevent lifting! Not as textured as I'd hoped that's why I didn't get 5 stars!
MM_OK
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2024
This sketch book is a good accompaniment with Gouache paint set. Our daughter uses this and she enjoys this sketch book rather than loose sheets. The pages in the book are stuck purposefully and each page will be used only when it is necessary. It's a good buy.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on February 3, 2024
Ordered to go with a gauche set she got for Christmas. Is as expected!
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024
Love this pad!! Use a palette knife to release the pages. To prevent curling, make sure your paint is completely dry before releasing it and frame it immediately to prevent curling of pages with a heavy amount of paint. Wish they made it in a larger size!! Totally just bought 3 more.
Giovanni Mosquera
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2024
She's using this book every day with the gouache set
Heather McCallum
Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2024
I bought this pad as a travel gouache sketcher. It fits in a bag well, but once the edges are taped off, the canvas can feel a little small-- that's the trade-off you get for portability. It held well to the watercolour block until it was time to release the page, and separated cleanly. Keep in mind that at 98 pounds you will get a little show-through on the opposite side of each sheet, so it's advised to only use one side of the page, or only do pencil-sketches on the opposite side.
r.
Reviewed in Canada on December 24, 2023
This gouache pad combines the best of a sketchbook with a block (watercolour paper often comes in blocks with the edges glued down so it won't misbehave while we paint). The block style keeps the paper flat-ish but when finished, we have a spiral-bound sketchbook. Very nice idea.The paper in this book is glued down on the top and bottom edges so that it doesn't curl up while we paint. When the painting is finished, I just run a palette knife gently under the page and it reveals the next page, ready to paint.But does it work?Yes, for the most part.In the photos, I used himi jelly gouache. The paper in this gouache pad is thinner than I am used to. Quite a bit thinner than watercolour paper. I was worried it wouldn't hold up to the paint but gave it a try anyway. When the paint is fairly dry (not much water added) the paper doesn't seem to mind at all. A wet wash (lots of water to very little paint), like I would for watercolour, caused the paper to wriggle around a bit, but once it dried, it calmed right down and was only slightly wavy. The glue really helped to keep it calm. The amount of water makes a difference to how much the paper reacts.There was no bleeding (paint/ink goes through the paper) through to the other side but there is some ghosting (where we can see the ink/paint from the back side of the paper but it didn't actually come through the paper). To me, it's enough ghosting that I wouldn't want to paint on both sides. I would also be worried about reactivating the paint on the other side too, so, I'm going to leave every other page blank. That means this pad will only give me 50 paintings, not 100 as I had hoped.Then again, the spiral-bound book makes it hard to paint on the reverse side.When the page is detached from the block (when we run a palette knife along to remove the glue top and bottom), it does curl up a bit but I think this will flatten out over time if the book is kept closed. To avoid this, maybe choose a book with a thicker paper. But I don't mind as this is my practice book.On the whole, I love it! It's perfect for someone like me who is new to gouache and doesn't really know what kind of paper to go with. The texture of the paper is fairly smooth compared to watercolour hard press, but not as smooth as hot press. Perfect tooth to hold gouache paint.The only downside - and this is true for any block-style paper - is that I can only work on one painting at a time. I might buy a second book so I can start sketching out the next painting while I wait for the other one to dry.And if the maker ever reads this - it would be epic if you included one of those plastic tools for separating the paper as it's easy for a clutz like me to damage the next paper when using a metal palette knife if I'm not paying attention.
sandwichcat232
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2023
this product works great! i am using himi gouache with this!! nice paper n it works quite well, and if you’re wondering this paper is also decent for alcohol markers.one issue is that the paper is stuck together. i get that this is for the paper to not curl as you paint, but its difficult to separate the paper without it tearing the edges a little which is a little bit frustrating
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