Montval Watercolor Pad, 15" x 20", Cold Press, 140 lb. (300gsm), White, Tape Bound, 12 Sheets/Pad

I really like this watercolor paper. Affordable option for those of us who are learning the art of watercolor. Seems to hold the water/paint well. I like the size of this pad. I have not experienced piling with paper. Will be ordering more in the future.

This is a good quality paper. It has a mild texture, works very well with watercolors, gouache and graphite.

As a beginner in watercolor, I have tried many papers that made my learning journey more difficult. I have been looking for a paper that was reasonably priced and did not get in the way. I have certainly given this paper a workout in lifting color, too much water, layering and lifting after dry etc. So far, I have had no piling or sign of paper deterioration and am very pleased with how it performs. I love 100% cotton paper, but don't want to use it except for final efforts. At this point, this paper has held up so well, I would not mind using it for framing. For my type of art, that is animals and plants, it works fine. I dont do large washes. Will update review if experience changes, but would recommend to give it a try. Update 3-30-20: beginners lesson learned to share. I completed the painting and noticed some pilling in certain areas. The areas where I used a regular pencil eraser to lighten my sketch pilled in some areas. Where I used a kneaded eraser did not. Recommend using a kneaded eraser to lift the graphite prior to painting with this paper.

We're watercoloring novices who purchased this pad to facilitate all the painting we've been doing while social distancing, and we're generally very pleased with it! Here are the highlights: *QUALITY: The paper quality is excellent. The pages are very thick and painting from one sheet don't smear onto other sheets. In fact, to make the notebook last longer, we've found that we can paint on both sides of each sheet after the first side has fully dried. No complaints about the paper itself! *SIZE: We bought the 5.5"x8.5" pad, and we were a little bit surprised and disappointed by how small the notebook and its pages were. Each page is about the size of my outstretched hand (see photo), which doesn't leave much space for larger paintings that we might want to hang up. Also, because of the relatively large gap between the notebook's spiral binding and the perforated edge (see photo), the paper becomes even smaller than 5.5" (per my own measurements, it's closer to 5.33" instead). I can't complain too much about the size since it does almost match what I ordered, but I do wish I had sat down and measured out the space on a piece of paper beforehand so I knew what I was getting into. Overall, my impression of this notebook is that it's high-quality, but small, paper. Next time I order watercolor paper, I plan to stick with this brand but get a larger notebook. Happy painting!

This is a great sketchbook for use with watercolor! I really wish I could find something in between the standard 5.5x8.5 and 9x12 that seems to be common for watercolor. A 7x10 would be perfect for me. However, this book exceeded expectations! I ordered this at the same time as another with the same dimensions and was surprised at first to see this one is bigger. I realized that Canson measures these pages based on the perforation line. If you were to tear them out the size listed (5.5x8.5) is what they would be after removing them. There's probably an extra inch or so on the left side where the spiral is. The other sketchbook I got measures the paper literally - meaning the spiral is eating into the listed size so you don't even that that full size for painting space. Other than being happily surprised about the size, I'm really impressed with the paper. It's nice and thick and hasn't buckled with light to medium use of water. Both regular brushes and water brushes work well as do the variety of paints I've tried. It's pretty textured, which I often enjoy, but I do wish they'd offer a hot pressed variety of this book just so I could pick and choose based on what I'm working on. That's not a flaw with this book, though, and this exceeds all my expectations. I also wish it had more pages, but I'll settle for buying new ones more often because this is just that good!

I didn't paint on it myself, but I have painted on quality watercolor paper and this paper also seems to be of good quality. Almost wish I got a second for myself. I love the size of this pad of paper. Specifically wanted a smaller pad for a gift for someone starting to dabble in watercolors. All looks really good, no issues. I feel good about giving this paper as a gift.

Perfect for travel

My package was delivered to me during a bad rain storm and by the time I discovered it sitting by my front door, the box was so soaked, it had fallen apart. Of course I was very worried about this watercolor pad inside. It had gotten quite wet and I expected it to be ruined. I opened it up and let it air dry but I had little hope, to be honest. To my surprise, the next day I looked at it and I couldn’t even tell that the paper had gotten wet. It had recovered beautifully and looked like new again. The only way you could tell what had happened was that the front and back covers looked warped. But who cares! Today I did a little painting on this paper and it performed great! I find it much better than the Cannon XL. In case you’re debating between the two, go for this one, the Canson Montval.

No es un bloc de papel barato sino todo lo contrario: es un papel costoso debido a la gran calidad del mismo. Por tal motivo considero que el empaque debe ser elegido con más cuidado. Por lo menos que estuviera emplayado y en un empaque más ceñido ya que llegó en una caja mucho más grande que el producto y por ello hubiera podido sufrir daños en las esquinas. No fue mi caso. A mí me llegaron en buen estado, con las esquinas intactas. Creo que tuve suerte. Lo mínimo sería que estuvieran forrados con algún plástico o celofán para protegerlo contra el polvo y la humedad. En general el producto es muy bueno. Pensé que el grano de la textura sería un poco más fino sin embargo no es tan grueso como algunos otros papeles para acuarela. El producto es muy recomendable.

I've used several different brands of high quality watercolour paper, and this is just the best. It will even take a certain amount of scrubbing before pilling. And it has really high water-absorbency which grants you more time to work wet on wet. Now I've discovered this French high quality paper (made from cotton fibres), I won't be buying any other brand. It comes in a pad that you pull off sheets to paint on, mask-taped to a support, and also a ring-bound pad which you can paint onto directly then remove later, or just keep as a collection on the pad. (They even do a small pad (5.5 x 8.5) for watercolour sketching/plein aire, and it's ring-bound so it opens fully!) They do several sizes , btw., not just these two.

Watercolor paper is so tough to choose for me. With brands being so different it's almost become a personal style preference on which paper to use. Not many reputable companies make portable affordable options like this. It's a great value so I'm not worried about "wasting my paper" and it's portable enough to grab-n-paint so that I can keep myself motivated to paint without having to pull out my grand watercolor set-up and make a huge mess while doing so. It's not Arches, there is a limit to how many layers you can do before it starts to get finicky with you - but it's also not some cheap paper that will just wrinkle up as soon as you put a decent wash on it. It takes pen ink very nicely and the paint color remains nice once dry. If you're not planning a project with 10+ layer effects, or plan to use it as a practice sketchbook then this is my go-to paper for value and consistency. I also love that spiral sketchbooks lay flat, and I totally use the backs of the paper for color testing or thumbnailing.

I can see that I am going to have to buy another pad of this Canson Artist Series Montval Watercolor Paper very soon. I love it for all my papercrafting and mixed media pages - Great with my Gel Press as well!

Papel de celulose, mas de fabricação mould made. Resiste bem a técnica wet on wet e correções. Excelente papel, superior ao Montval tradicional e consegui comprar na promoção com valor similar ao tradicional.