100 Series • 200 Series • Vision • 300 Series • 400 Series • 500 Series
make something real For over 125 years Strathmore® has been providing artists with the finest papers on which to create their artwork. Our papers are manufactured to exacting specifications for every level of expertise.
100 100 Series | Youth SERIES Ignite a lifelong love of art. Designed for ages 5 and up, the paper types YOUTH and features have been selected to enhance the creative process. Choice of paper is one of the most important 200 Series | Good decisions an artist makes 200SERIES Value without compromise. Good quality paper at a great price that’s economical enough for daily use. The broad range of papers is a great in determining the GOOD starting point for the beginning and developing artist. outcome of their work.
Color, absorbency, texture, weight, and ® Vision | Good STRATHMORE size are some of the more important Let the world see your vision. An affordable line of pads featuring extra variables that contribute to different high sheet counts and durable construction. Tear away fly sheets reveal a artistic effects. Whether your choice of vision heavyweight, customizable, blank cover made from high quality, steel blue medium is watercolor, charcoal, pastel, GOOD mixed media paper. Charcoal Paper in our 300, 400 and 500 Series is pencil, or pen and ink, you can be confident that manufactured with a traditional laid finish making we have a paper that will enhance your artistic them the ideal foundation for this medium. The efforts. Our papers are manufactured to exacting laid texture provides a great toothy surface for specifications for every level of expertise. building layers of pastel color. 300 Series | Better Better quality paper designed for quick studies Newsprint is a lightweight, economical paper comes in many textures and 300SERIES Discover the difference. Pastel Paper and the practice of techniques with any media, as well as final artwork by meant for warm up exercises, practice, and shades to create the ideal background for pastel BETTER beginning or student artists. preliminary sketching. paintings. Our 400 Series contains sheets ranging from subtle tints to deep fiber-enhanced colors. Sketch Paper is a lighter weight paper that The 500 Series allows the artist to choose from is great for experimentation and practice of a full range of 28 colors. The surfaces of these techniques. 200, Vision, and 300 Series are papers are great for soft or hard pastels, quality papers for the student and beginning oil pastels, and charcoal. 400 Series | Best artist at an economical price. Draw on experience. Best quality with superior sheet formation, harder combines the true wet media surfaces, and a variety of textures that work with a wider range of media Mixed Media Paper is available in each of our Series performance of watercolor paper with the finish and styles. Perfect for advanced artists. Drawing Paper levels from 200 to 500. Students and beginners of a drawing sheet for a complete range of mixed usually start with the 200, Vision, or 300 Series, media applications. 400 SERIES then move up to and 400 Series when they need BEST more stringent performance features. 500 Series Watercolor Paper is manufactured to exacting 400 Series Recycled | Best is our professional grade drawing paper made specifications, acid free, and buffered to neutralize Best quality recycled paper containing Conserve without compromise. with 100% cotton fiber. This drawing paper has the acid compounds absorbed from the atmosphere post-consumer fiber that is rated Grade A for cleanliness. Strathmore® toughest surface and will take repeated erasures or formed through natural aging. We offer a supports environmental solutions that don’t compromise paper and reworking. complete range of these papers in surfaces to performance, appearance, or price. Perfect for advanced artists. complement any technique and level of expertise. Bristol and Illustration Board provide a stiff, strong surface to work on without the need for Printmaking Paper Available in 300, 400, and 500 mounting. Our boards come in various weights and Series, this broad range of printmaking papers 500 Series | Premium finishes. Bristol generally describes drawing paper accommodates techniques from block printing Create a legacy. Premium quality, professional grade fine art papers. that is pasted together to form multi-ply sheets. to lithography, intaglio, and screen printing. 500SERIES All papers are archival quality, acid free, and manufactured with cotton Illustration board has 100% cotton drawing paper fiber for enhanced surface durability and exceptional results. mounted on both sides of heavyweight board. PREMIUM Perfect for professional artists. YOUTH GOOD BETTER BEST PREMIUM
100 SERIES 200 SERIES STRATHMORE® VISION 300 SERIES 400 SERIES 400 SERIES RECYCLED 500 SERIES Ignite a Lifelong Love of Art Value Without Compromise Let the World See Your Vision Discover the Difference Draw on Experience Conserve without Compromise Create a Legacy PAPER/MEDIA TYPE: Artist quality papers to nuture talent Good quality paper at a great price High value pads - customizable covers Better quality for developing artists Best quality for advanced artists Contains 30% post-consumer fiber Professional grade archival paper
Newsprint and Sketch: Lightweight papers that are great for experimentation and practice of techniques.
SKETCHBOOK DOODLE PAD NEWSPRINT SKETCH VISION SKETCH NEWSPRINT SKETCH SKETCH RECYCLED SKETCH TONED TAN OR GRAY SKETCH Fine Tooth Surface Rough Surface Rough Surface Lightweight Lightweight Rough/Smooth Options Lightweight Heavyweight Heavyweight For Light and Dark Media Economical Fine Tooth Surface Fine Tooth Surface Natural-Toned Fine Tooth Surface Fine Tooth Surface Fine Tooth Surface Medium Surface
Drawing: Papers for finished art using any dry media.
DRAWING DRAWING VISION DRAWING DRAWING DRAWING HEAVYWEIGHT COLORED PENCIL RECYCLED DRAWING DRAWING* ILLUSTRATION BOARD* Medium Surface Lightweight Medium Weight Medium Weight Medium Weight DRAWING Heavyweight Medium Weight 100% Cotton Fiber 100% Cotton Fiber Fine Tooth Surface Medium Surface Medium Surface Medium/Smooth Options Medium Surface Medium Surface Medium Surface Ultra Smooth Plate or Resists Warping Cream Colored Cream Colored White Bright White Toothy Medium Finish Vellum & Plate Surfaces
Bristol: Smooth finish is for detail work with pen and ink, airbrush, and marker. Vellum finish is for pencil, charcoal, pastel, airbrush, and light washes. is ultra smooth for Plate finish BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL detailed work with pen and ink, Smooth/Vellum Options Plate* Vellum* airbrush, and marker. Smooth Vellum 100% Cotton 100% Cotton
Sequential Bristol: Created specially for the comic, cartoon, and graphic novel industry. BRISTOL – SEQUENTIAL ART BRISTOL – SEQUENTIAL ART BRISTOL – SEQUENTIAL ART Smooth Smooth/Vellum Options Plate/Vellum/Semi-Smooth Options Non-Reproducible Blue Lines
Charcoal and Pastel: Papers with just enough texture to create an ideal foundation for charcoal and pastel.
BLACK CHALK CHARCOAL PASTEL GRAY SCALE ARTAGAIN® - BLACK OR ASSORTED TINTS CHARCOAL Heavyweight Textured Surface For Oil, Soft, or 5 Colors - White to Black For Soft Pastels and Charcoal White or Asst. Tints Wipe Clean Surface Natural White Hard, Dry Pastels For Charcoal and Pastel Assorted Tints are Fiber-Enhanced 100% Cotton, Laid Finish
All 500 Series Drawing, Bristol, Watercolor, Illustration, and Mixed Media Boards are stamped with an official Strathmore® mark to ensure paper identification and excellence in performance. *Not recommended for traditional watercolor techniques. YOUTH GOOD BETTER BEST PREMIUM 100 SERIES 200 SERIES STRATHMORE® VISION 300 SERIES 400 SERIES 400 SERIES RECYCLED 500 SERIES Ignite a Lifelong Love of Art Value Without Compromise Let the World See Your Vision Discover the Difference Draw on Experience Conserve without Compromise Create a Legacy PAPER/MEDIA TYPE: Artist quality papers to nuture talent Good quality paper at a great price High value pads - customizable covers Better quality for developing artists Best quality for advanced artists Contains 30% post-consumer fiber Professional grade archival paper
Tracing, Pen & Ink and Marker: Tracing Paper and Layout Bond are suitable for pencil, marker, and ink. Parchment, Calligraphy, and Writing Papers have ideal surfaces for smooth ink flow. Marker Paper is designed to TRACING MARKER TRACING PARCHMENT TRACING LAYOUT BOND CALLIGRAPHY PARCHMENT MARKER MARKER WRITING accept heavy coverage and is Semi-transparent Smooth Surface Smooth Surface Smooth Surface for Smooth Surface Smooth Surface White Smooth Surface Smooth Surface Smooth Surface 25% Cotton Fiber bleed resistant. Bleed Resistant Economical Even Ink Flow Accepts Pencil, For Pencil, Pen, For Calligraphy Nibs Available in White, Heavyweight Semi-Transparent For Pen and Ink Marker, and Ink and Marker and Pen and Ink Aged, and Natural Bleed Resistant Correspondence
Acrylic and Oil: Textured papers for the demands of acrylic and oil painting.
Palette paper is a smooth coated sheet for blending and CANVAS PALETTE CANVAS BLACK CANVAS ACRYLIC OIL PAINTING mixing oil and acrylic paint. Canvas Texture Poly-Coated Canvas Texture Canvas Texture Heavyweight No Gesso Required For Oils and Acrylics Disposable For Oils and Acrylics For Oils and Acrylics Linen Texture Linen Texture
Printmaking: Natural white papers for student and professional printmakers. 300 Series for relief printing, practice and proofing. 400 Series for lithography, intaglio, and screen printing.
500 Series 100% cotton and can PRINTMAKING PRINTMAKING be soaked for a wide array of Lightweight Heavyweight printmaking techniques. Ready-to-Frame Sizes Sheet Stock and Ready-to-Frame Sizes
Mixed Media: Combines the wet media performance of watercolor paper with the vellum finish of a drawing sheet. For graphite, colored pencil, sketching stick, pen and ink, pastel, marker, and collage. Also suitable for light MIXED MEDIA VISION MIXED MEDIA MIXED MEDIA MIXED MEDIA TONED MIXED MEDIA MIXED MEDIA HEAVYWEIGHT ILLUSTRATION BOARD washes in watercolor, gouache, Lightweight Medium Weight Medium Weight Heavyweight Heavyweight In Sheets & Boards MIXED MEDIA FOR WET MEDIA or acrylic. Vellum Surface Vellum Surface Vellum Surface Vellum Surface Medium Surface The Ultimate Surface 3-ply Cotton Surface For Drawing and Wet For Light and Dark Media for Mixed Media Extra Heavyweight Media Applications
SHEETS: AQUARIUS II® Blend of Cotton & Synthetic Fibers Watercolor: GEMINI Paper manufactured to accept 100% Cotton watercolor washes, lifting, and 4 Deckle Edges blending techniques. IMPERIAL® PAINT PAD WATERCOLOR VISION WATERCOLOR WATERCOLOR WATERCOLOR WATERCOLOR BLOCK TRAVEL SERIES READY CUT WATERCOLOR Hot & Cold Press Textured Lightweight Heavyweight Heavyweight Heavyweight Heavyweight Pads and Journals Hot and Cold Press Harder Sized for Also Good for Markers & Poster Paints Cold Press Cold Press Cold Press Professional Grade Professional Grade For Urban Sketching 3 Sizes for Improved Lifting Cold Press Cold Press & Plein Air Painting Readymade Frames and Blending
All 500 Series Drawing, Bristol, Watercolor, Illustration, and Mixed Media Boards are stamped with an official Strathmore® mark to ensure paper identification, and excellence in performance. Aquarius II® is a registered trademark of Dixon Ticonderoga. Glossary Acid Free Paper: Paper manufactured using Fourdrinier: The formal name for a the smoothness of the metal plate to alkaline papermaking technology. Acid free papermaking machine that forms a a paper’s surface. Plate surface papers papers are buffered with an alkaline reserve, continuous web of paper on a moving are ideal for pen and ink, airbrush, and such as calcium carbonate, to neutralize acid wire screen. The vast majority of paper mechanical layouts. compounds absorbed from the atmosphere manufactured in this country is made or formed through natural aging. on Fourdrinier machines. Ply: A single thickness (sheet) of paper. Artists’ papers and mounting boards, as Archival Paper: Paper manufactured to g/m2: A unit of measure for the weight of well as other grades, are identified as 1-ply, provide the ultimate resistance against paper in the metric system. It is the weight 2-ply, etc. As each ply is pasted together natural aging. The most important of one square meter expressed in grams. the increased thickness and stiffness is characteristics are: no groundwood or A 140 lb. 22" x 30" watercolor paper is described by the number of plies. unbleached pulp, a minimum pH of 7.5, equivalent to 300 g/m2. and additional alkaline reserve of 2%. Recycled Fiber: Recycled fiber is made from Grain Direction: The direction in which the reprocessing waste paper. Post-consumer Basis Size: Sizes based on traditions/ majority of fibers lie in a finished sheet of waste (PCW) refers to paper that was customs that represent the industry paper corresponding to the direction the recovered after actually being used by standard for a specific paper grade. For wire travels on a papermaking machine. a consumer and discarded. example, the basis size of watercolor Handmade papers have no grain direction. paper is 22" x 30". Renewable Energy: Renewable energy Green-e®: The nation’s leading independent comes from sources that are continuously Basis Weight: The weight in pounds of a certification and verification program for available, such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, ream (500 sheets) of paper in a given basis renewable energy and companies that use geothermal, and ocean tides, as opposed size. Thus, a 140 lb. watercolor paper will renewable energy. to exhaustible fossil fuels such as coal, be one in which a ream of 22" x 30" sheets oil, and gas. actually weighs 140 pounds. Hemp: A tree-free fiber used in papermaking. Hemp requires less energy Renewable Energy Certificate (REC): Bristol: Artist Bristol generally describes to pulp, uses fewer chemicals than wood An authorized document or other drawing paper that is pasted. Two or more due to low lignin content and grows faster representation (electronic, paper, etc.) of sheets are pasted together to form 2-ply, than trees. Its natural brightness eliminates the attributes associated with generation of 3-ply, etc. Sheets are pasted into bristol the need to chlorine bleach and it can be a defined amount of electricity, usually one to achieve stiffness, strength, and to form recycled several times. megawatt-hour (MWH). a sheet with two identical useable (felt or top) sides. Hot Press: Used primarily in describing Rough Surface: A term used to describe watercolor papers with a smooth surface. a coarse, textured paper. Often used Calendering: A process that takes place at by artists when discussing the surface the end of the papermaking machine. The Laid Finish: Describes a watermarked characteristics of watercolor paper. paper is passed through a stack of steel series of parallel, vertical, and horizontal rollers which gives it more uniform thickness impressed lines in a sheet. Size (Sizing): Additive substances such as (caliper). By varying the number of rolls starch, animal glue, or a synthetic product used, and the pressure applied, degrees Lignin: An organic substance which acts which are applied to the surface of the of smoothness can be achieved. as a binder for cellulose fibers in wood paper (surface sizing) and/or added to the and certain plants, adding strength and furnish (internal sizing). Sizing is applied to Caliper: The thickness of a sheet of paper, stiffness to cell walls. Lignin is undesirable the paper to improve the drawing, painting, expressed in thousandths of an inch (.001) in the production of fine, permanent papers or printing qualities such as moisture hold or mil. because it reacts with light and/or heat to out and paper strength. produce henols (alcohols) and acids, which Center for Resource Solutions: National cause deterioration and embrittlement Smooth Surface: A paper with a very Non-Profit Organization that administers of the paper. smooth, hard finish. Ideal for pen and ink, the Green-e® program and whose goal is to marker, airbrush, and mechanical layouts. increase the amount of renewable energy Mould (Mold) Made: Although originally used world wide. describing a handmade process, today Vellum/Medium/Regular/Kid Surface: “mould made” papers are produced on a A term used to describe the finish of a sheet Cold Press: A term used to describe a Cylinder machine. Cylinder machines differ of paper with a minimum to moderate tooth. moderately textured surface of paper from Fourdriniers only in the way the pulp Ideal for pencil, charcoal, airbrush, pastel, used for watercolor work. is applied to the wire. crayon, and pen and ink (not requiring a solid line). Deckle Edge: A decorative feathered edge Opacity: The property of a paper that produced during the papermaking process. minimizes or prevents the passage of Virgin Fiber: New fiber produced directly light through the sheet. from wood fiber or short fibers harvested Environmental Stewardship: Good from cotton plants known as cotton linters. stewardship means putting back more pH: This is a chemical term, defining the than we take from the environment, as acid-alkaline range of any substance. A Wire Side: The reverse of felt side. It is the well as meeting the demands of the lower pH indicates acidity, a higher figure side of the sheet of paper that comes in present without compromising the shows an alkaline condition. A pH reading contact with the Fourdrinier wire on the needs of the future. of 7.0 indicates neutrality. wet end of the papermaking machine.
Felt Side: The side of the paper that does Plate/High Surface: For a special, not contact the carrying wire while traveling uniformly smooth finish, sheets of paper across the wet end of the papermaking are interleaved with highly polished metal ® machine. Also known as the “top side,” it plates to make a stack or “book”. The is considered the preferred working side “book” is then pressed repeatedly between ® used under license from Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. of a sheet of paper. steel rolls under great pressure, imparting
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