Canson XL Series Mix Paper Pad, Heavyweight, Fine Texture, Heavy Sizing for Wet or Dry Media, Side Wire Bound, 98 Pound, 5.5 x 8.5 in, 60 Sheets, 5.5X8.5

This is my second time buying this sketchbook. It is great for beginners as well as experienced artists. I use it for sketching, gouache, markers, acrylic and watercolor studies. It is great and portable and overall a wonderful size to have on the go or to store away. Though the pages do bleed through when using markers; I find it’s texture with markers to be beautiful and I do not mind it. Still, it is a really good sketchbook.

You can use any medium for this paper. I use acrylic pens and paint.

Good paper , thick, picks up pencil well , little bit rough but I like it

while i mostly stick with line art and watercolor, this would also work for a number of mediums. with watercolor, the pages to bow up a little, but it isnt anything too significant. ive only used it a few times, but i cant see how the pages would start to fall out like people have said on here. overall, a very nice sketchbook for beginners!

Wanted to get back into watercolor painting and experience watercolor pencils. This will do well for me purposes. Decent paper for the price.

Had problems using markers but with color pencils works well.

Perfect art pad!

its definitely a sketching book and it definitely a book.

Not very good for watercolor. Thought paper would be thicker because its multimedia, however, watercolor warps it.

Love this notebook for the price and quality. The paper es thick and lightly textured. As it’s intended for mix media it doesn’t hold well heavy washes nor many pases of watery brushes or watercolors. Sharpies may bleed trough. It’s a paper to use for one side only.