Rhodia Touch Wirebound Watercolour Book | Cold Pressed Paper, A5 Landscape
If you've ever had a sketchbook let you down mid-wash, you'll understand why this one from Rhodia is worth paying attention to.
The Rhodia Touch Wirebound Watercolour Book is built around genuine Fontaine cotton paper, made in the Netherlands by Schut specifically for watercolour work. It's 300gsm, cold pressed, with a fine tooth that holds pigment well and takes repeated washes without buckling or pilling. This is proper artist-grade paper, not a notebook with "watercolour" on the label and standard stock inside.
The book opens in A5 landscape format (21 x 14.8 cm), which gives you a wide, horizontal working surface that suits landscapes, panoramic studies and plein air sketching far better than a portrait page ever could. Wire binding means the book lies genuinely flat when open, right across both pages, so you're not fighting the spine or working around a gutter while you paint.
Inside, you'll find 20 sheets of non-microperforated paper, acid-free and pH neutral, so your work will hold its colour and condition over time rather than yellowing or degrading. The cover is a black printed fabric hard-cover, sturdy enough to protect the pages inside whether it's tucked into a bag for a day out sketching or sitting on a studio shelf.
It suits watercolourists at any stage, from someone building confidence with their first washes through to practised painters who want a dependable travel book. The format also works well for mixed media that leans wet, given the weight and absorbency of the paper.
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Good watercolour paper changes how your washes behave. It lifts colour evenly, dries without warping and lets you layer without the surface breaking down. Pair that with a landscape format that opens flat, and you've got a sketchbook that's genuinely built for the way watercolourists actually work, rather than one that's been adapted from a general notebook.
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