SoHo Urban Artist Fine Textured Professional Pastel Paper Pad – 140 lb. – 8×8″ Acid-Free Fine Textured Canvas Paper with Glassine Sheets, 20 Perforated Sheets, Durable Oil Pastel Paper for Artists

Absolutely brilliant. The glassine pages inbetween are brilliant both for protecting pages from one another and also – if you do rather more than pastel – they can be quite fun to “clean up” the work beneath. The pages are *wonderful* and play well so far with watercolor, oil-pressed charcoal, inks, pencil, heavy erasing – they’ve taken no visible marks from extremely heavy erasing. The woven texture can be slightly intense for some media, but so far nothing is actually unmannagable. The size is nice, and the quality absolutely exceptional – the cover is thick enough to protect it and the back is extra thick and *truly firm* in a way that makes this a truly killer option for mixed media artists who like to travel – or even just, you know, draw in your lap on the couch instead of at a desk or easle.It’s great, is what I’m saying. It doesn’t replace everything else for me, but it’s certainly trying to tempt me. I really couldn’t be more delighted in the quality of this bloody thing, I’ve not been so pleased with a sketchbook I’ve acquired in quite a while. Really do recommend this brilliant little thing.Also, bonus if you aren’t using something that sheds enough to require the glassine to protect your work: DOUBLE THE PAGE COUNT BABY two paper textures for the price of one. AhGods I’m happy with this sketchbook. Truly over the moon. I’ll be eagerly looking to SOHO in the future when I’m looking for art supplies.