460-55 400 Series Visual Watercolor Journal, 140 LB Cold Press, 5.5"x8", 22 Sheets , White

This is a wonderful pad of paper that is perfect for making an art journal, because the sheets are suitable for a variety of artistic mediums. It's the right size for completing a page a day if your creative time is limited.

I'm probably on my 30 or 40th of these. Amazing quality for the price. Great size and page count. The perfect travel watercolor book. Love the ring binder so it lays flat.

I have bought these multiple times over the past few years and I absolutely love them. I've taken the smaller one backpacking/hiking/on planes. It's small enough to paint while flying or in a tent when it's raining. The one in the pics has pressed flowers in Alaska and brought them safely back on a plane with the help of a binder clip. The pages stained a little bit but the paper held up. The second pic had deep purple stains from the flowers and you would never know thanks to a white paint pen. Maybe some minor creasing but once I started painting it smoothed out completely. That's definitely outside recommend usage and it took it like a champ. If anything the stain just shows how well it holds pigment. The paper is really thick (140) and has enough durability and texture to paint on both sides. That's uncommon with most watercolor paper. Huge win, especially for traveling. I tend to use the little one for travel and the larger ones for sketching. They're cheap enough that I don't feel guilty just sketching on them. Then if I want to paint it later I can because its good paper. The cover is surprisingly durable as well. Having a hard cover means the pages don't bend in transit. Like I said these are hands down my favorite sketchbooks. I'm rough on my stuff and I know I can trust these with whatever I put them though.

These Visual Journals are so very nice. They have a hardcover underneath the page that you see in the image. I’ve purchased both the Bristol 9x12 and the watercolor of the same size. The Bristol paper is super smooth - so good for colored pencils and graphite - I’m not sure about markers. It’s also good quality paper compared to a lot of journals. The Bristol paper won’t work with water it’s too smooth for that. The watercolor version is good, especially with water soluble mediums - Inktense blocks and pencils, Faber Castell Graphitint, and watercolor pencils. I don’t care to use it for actual watercolors - especially if you want to use the wet-on-wet techniques. It’s smoother than a typical cold press paper, but not as smooth as hot press paper. If you’re not using a lot of water, these would be fine. The pages buckle with relatively small amounts of water, so keep that in mind.

Perfect little watercolor journal. Very nice quality two sided paper. Nicely held together with a strong spiral wire. The cover is thick cardboard making it easy to use outdoors.

Used this with the book version of drawing with the Wrong Side of Your Brain. It word out perfectly. Paper is good weight and texture and the spiral is helpful. Good value

I just love, love, love this Journal! Wow! I want to add a few things about this Visual journal. It's the same paper as the Strathmore 500 series premium Mix Media Journal 100% cotton but more small, the same quality, thikness, texture, lb and gms. This journal have a good capacity to work with graphite, Ink, colored pencils, soluble pigments crayons, colored graphite, ballpoint pen, watercolor and gouache. And I love how it looks gouache on it. So I highly recommend this for sketches, project or preliminary painting or drawing. High quality, good for student and professional Artists.

I worked at the art supply store at my art college years ago, in the 90s. My school collaborated with a local paper company to put out a variety of school-brand sketchbooks. One of them was a spiral bound book, 11" x 14", with a heavy cover and back. And the paper was 100% cotton watercolor paper, 140 cold press. There were around 25 pages in them. They were the best sketchbooks, and an incredible buy. (I can't remember what they cost, but if I found them affordable as a student, they were not expensive.) I wish I had somehow been able to stockpile them and store them in an art supply bunker, but those sketchbooks are now a thing of the past. The next best thing to building a time machine, and going back to buy one of my alma mater watercolor sketchbooks, is buying one of these. Strathmore 460-19 500 Series Visual Mixed Media Journal, Vellum, 9"x12", White, 34 Sheets. These are my requirements for a good sketchbook: spiral binding, so I can fold the pages all the way back without them getting weird, and tear the pages out easily if need be. The paper needs to be 100% cotton so it will stand up to multiple eraser scrubbings and multiple water applications without pilling. It needs to be of a decent weight so it doesn’t tear under the erasing and water. It should have a generous amount of pages. It has to tolerate a variety of mixed media. And- it needs to be affordable. I work wet on wet a lot. I use water soluble graphite to draw the basic design, and have to do a lot of erasing because my drafting skills aren't the greatest. Then I go in with water-soluble chalk pastels, gouache, ink, more graphite, and sometimes acrylic paint and water soluble colored pencils. I spray the paper with water for wet on wet, and will spray the work in progress and sometimes rinse off as much of the image as I can, and then go back in and work on it some more. When its finished, I will spray the work with either Workable Fixatif or Crystal Clear to seal in the media. Or I will put on a layer or two of polymer medium. I like to keep the work in the book. I do put glassine between the pages. But the paper gets loaded with media, and layers, and plastic- and with the exception of a little tearing at the top or bottom of the page, the books stay intact. I don't know how the paper is sized, or have any other information on them. I just know they are amazing, and I'm happy they exist. Strathmore, if you are listening: I'd really love an 11" x 14" size of one of these. I highly recommend this sketchbook. Treat yourself to one. Under $20. 100% cotton paper. The paper makes a big difference, and won't quit on you, or pill, or tear. I have tormented the pages of these sketchbooks, and they keep their integrity. I'm really glad I found them.

Very handy especially when travelling.

Excellent exactly as described and fast received can’t wait to start creating in it

Uno sketchbook molto carino sia per il formato che per il tipo di carta. Copertina extra rigida che quindi protegge bene i fogli all'interno. La carta è liscia e regge bene l'acquarello, visto che è 100% cotone! La qualità della carta giustifica assolutamente il prezzo, anche in confronto a sketchbook di altri brand con carta di qualità decisamente inferiore e prezzi anche più alti. Non mi piace molto il colore marrone della copertina (quella che si vede nell'inserzione è una sovracoperta di carta patinata leggera che è possibile rimuovere) ma è un gusto personale quindi le stelle restano 5! Consigliato!

Le papier 300g n'est pas forcément facile à trouver sous forme de carnet, celui-ci à une texture grain moyen, agréable à travailler des deux côtés, il supporte bien les lavis comme les techniques sèches. J'apprécie la couverture (elle est derrière le visuel sur lequel il y a toutes les informations) qui est rigide sans ressembler aux autres.

Great quality visual journals for everyday sketching and ideas. I've got two of these, Bristol for pen and ink and vellumb for paint. Lovely quality paper to make the most of your sketching without breaking the bank