Stonehenge : Aqua Hotpress Pad : 6.3x9.5cm

This is a mini sample pad of the full sized Stonehenge Aqua Hotpress pad. Stonehenge Aqua Hotpress is a superb paper for botanical illustration since is very smooth while still having a delicate fine texture that is ideal for coloured pencil and watercolour layering. This makes vibrant realistic paintings entirely possible. The water permeates the paper slowly allowing for you to produce fine details and subtle gradations without losing any vibrancy or radiance.

Stonehenge Aqua is a high quality, silky watercolour paper that performs excellently with wet-on-wet applications or wet-on-dry applications. It’s crispness and excellent quality enables it to anchor work beautifully no matter what the technique. Lifting and blending are a dream on this paper allowing you the control you need to produce fine, elegant work. It’s absorbency is perfect fo rpreventing bright colours drying to a dull tone. The flat paper dries flat and resists buckling, whether you’re using blocks or sheets. Stonehenge Aqua can be used for watercolour, pen and ink drawings, intaglio printing, calligraphy, pastel painting and silkscreen printing.

Each sheet is made from 100% cotton and is acid and chlorine free with a synthetic sizing, that doesn’t contain any gelatine.

This is a sample pad measures 9.5 x 6.3cm and contains ten sheets of Stonehenge Aqua Hotpress paper.