Fabriano Studio Watercolor Pad, Cold-Press, 11" x 14", 90 lb., 20 Sheets

This is not my first time purchasing Fabriano Hot Press Watercolor paper. I had never heard of hot press until I saw a crafter using it in a video. I love to do watercolor and had always used the super good cold press paper, but sometimes if I used a stamp I had to stamp it up to 4 times to get a good impression. With hot press paper you just stamp once and then watercolor. The paper can take quite a bit of paint and water which surprised me. It is also amazing for ink blending. I take my finished projects and turn them into cards. This paper also cuts very easily with my paper trimmer. This is the ‘good stuff’ and is worth the price for me. After putting the work in on a project I dont want it to just be ‘OK’. I want it to look spectacular and that is what this paper gives me. I will keep purchasing this from Amazon as it is a good price and quality paper. I wish people had told me long ago that ‘Paper Matters’!! Because it does.

I’m quite choosy with paper. I usually use Arches, but wanted to try a pad that had more sheets in it as I’m practicing using gouache. I also usually use cold press as I’ve found hot press to be not as good at handling water. Well this pad has me hooked! It’s hot press, and handled the water very well! It’s also did not tear when I pulled the tape off of the edges after painting. 50 sheets a really great price, paper is great, and I’ve now got a pad that I can use daily without worrying about needing to dump more money into paper in a week or two.

Great paper!

This is the first hot pressed paper I've tried, normally I use cold pressed, and I'm blown away by the performance. It handles water so nicely, you can really go hard with the water and it doesn't warp like the cold pressed does, very minimal if any. It's so smooth to paint on, doing line work is like a dream. It's thinner than cold pressed, and the colors look amazing on it. It did get shipped with a few of the corners bent, but not as much as other people Said in their reviews, so I'm grateful for that. I will definitely repurchase. Highly recommend for people who use Gouache or watercolor.

The paper is very nice. I wanted to try hot pressed. I like it a lot .

Nice smooth hotness paper at an affordable price point

I've been through the Arche's and other pricier paper, as well as much less expensive, economy paper, and I keep coming back to this one. It's hot press surface works very well for pen and ink (I use fountain and dip pens) and the paper takes light to medium washes quite nicely. The colors look good. The reasonable price keeps me from being overly-precious while I work. It's a reliable paper, that I am planning to happily stick with, at least until something even better comes along.

Love paper- cane in great condition