Affordable Paper for Drawing & Painting D'Aqua Mixed Media Paper is a great multipurpose art paper at a surprisingly great price. Made in Germany with an acid-free, vegan-friendly formula, D'Aqua has a durable surface and plenty of wet strength for ink sketches and watercolor washes. Glue-bound on two sides to prevent warping while wet, D'Aqua is easier to peel off the pad than traditional watercolor blocks. There are also more pages here than a typical watercolor paper pad, with 30 sheets per D'Aqua pad. At 220 gsm (100 lb), with a strongly textured surface and a versatile sizing that works with almost all media, D'Aqua hits a sweet spot for many artists' workflow. You can make quick sketches with almost anything on your studio table, tear them off with wild abandon, and know you can always buy another pad. Hahnemühle Since 1584 Hahnemühle is an historic European papermaker, with a history that reaches back 400 years to the earliest milling activity near Dassel, Germany. The rivers that flow through this region have provided Hahnemühle a key raw material (water) and a source of clean power for many, many years. Today's Hahnemühle builds on this rich history with high-quality paper products, made with a close eye on sustainability. Hahnemühle — Respecting Nature Hahnemühle only uses primary paper pulp that comes from sustainable and FSC- or PEFC-certified tree farms. In these responsibly managed areas, 3-4 trees are planted for each tree harvested. As early as 1965, Hahnemühle was the first paper manufacturer worldwide to produce exclusively vegan papers. Animal glues made of gelatin or substrates of animal origin are not allowed in Hahnemühle papers. Instead, Hahnemühle uses a synthetic sizing to treat its papers. This vegan sizing is biodegradable; it contains no genetically modified organisms; and it's free from harmful or toxic substances.
