Strathmore 566-5 500 Series Hardbound Mixed Media Art Journal, 5.5 x 8.5, White, 32 Count

Exactly as described. Good condition. The pages barely warp, especially if you pin them to the cover while you paint with some large paper clips. Overall, a really great travel sized watercolor journal.

Great little notebook. the pages are good quality and Ive been able to use watercolor on both front and back without much wrinkling. Im using this more as a journal/art notebook, so I havent used any really wet washes and dont know how it would hold up to that, but so far Ive really like this notebook.

Best mixed media book for art journaling!

The cover is a bit soft and the pages have a slight texture, but overall its a good sketchbook. A bit thin at 192 pages but its okay. I would not recommend this sketchbook for markers or any other wet media since it bleeds quite a lot to the back. Ink pens, pencils, color pencils, charcoal/graphite, and pastels work great.

Amazing, no matter how many layers of watercolor I paint on it, its maintains sturdy and takes the paint well. The size is perfect and not too small. Definitely buying again in the future.

Compre un par de estos pues estaban baratos, los compre en 179 pesos, después que los compre me parece que subieron. El librito para acuarela es excelente, sus hojas son gruesas y se ve que resistirán el agua bien, aunque como siempre es bueno absorber el exceso de la misma con un papel para que pueda soportar más veces el agua. (recomiendo poner unas 3 hojas gruesas debajo de cada uno (hoja) para que las hojas de abajo no absorban humedad. Los compre para empezar a practicar con acuarela, por eso creo que el tamaño es más que perfecto. :) Lo único malo y la razón por la que no le pongo 5 estrellas es que creí que al decir que eran 48 paginas serían 48 hojas, pero no, una pagina son 2 paginas, una por lado, por lo que sólo son 24 hojas, pero la verdad no me quejo, me salio tan barato que poco importa. xD pero si es algo a considerar para alguien más, pues ahí esta el dato, lo recomiendo ampliamente. :) Un detalle menor que es que tiene las pegatinas de Amazon en la parte de la imitación piel, le quita un poco de estética pues en vez de pegarlo en el papel de arriba lo ponen ahí, ni modo, un detalle que nada importa, pero igual quería mencionarlo, lo repito, lo recomiendo de verdad. :3

Its a brow toned sketchbook. Uh. Good with both dark and light media. Very

This is the standard that I judge all other sketchbooks. When I start a new one I order the next to have on hand. You can literally feel the value of its quality and enhance the work and character that it contains.

Pros: Good quality paper and respectable page count. I number my pages and leave unnumbered end papers at front and back and get around 187 pages or so (still waiting for someone to make an 8.5 x 11 with more than just ~200 pages). Cons: The icky, rubbery, matte, chocolate-brown cover. I cant stand to touch the new cover and the spine is now wider (with no increase in page count or paper weight). The binding went from elegantly slim and sexy to chunky and just plain tacky. No longer a premium product. What happened to the classic, smooth, shiny, black cover? No one else makes one like it and I am severely disappointed in Strathmore for changing it. I buy a new sketchbook for writing every 4-6 weeks and have done so for years. I have about 20 linear feet of filled sketchbooks, over 95% of them Strathmore 400 Series 8.5 x 11 hardbound sketchbooks. Once, I felt proud to have this book sticking out of my bag or laid before me on a table in a coffeehouse, making me appear erudite, classy, and so unquestionably wise and intelligent that my work clearly belonged between the hard covers of an elegant, high quality, bound book. My self image will never be the same. Sadly, I cant bring myself to buy a Strathmore sketchbook ever again.

For a strathmore i was curious. When i open the pages, they tended to just bend. Good book but it would be better if there was space in the spine for the pages to sit open and not close do to the hard back.