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Fabriano Tiziano Pastel Paper

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The Bottom Line

A good, acid-free paper suitable for pastels, pencil, graphite, charcoal, and tempera. Available in pads or as loose sheets in numerous colors.
Pros
  • Acid free, archival
  • Available in many colors
  • Suitable for pastel, graphite, charcoal, tempera
Cons
  • Imported from Italy, so may be pricey
  • Your local stockist may not keep all the colors

Description

  • Acid-free paper made with 40 per cent cotton and high quality cellulose.
  • Sized internally and on the surface. Trimmed on all four edges, ie no deckle edge.
  • Weight: 160 gsm or 75 lbs.
  • Available in pads of 30 sheets in two sizes: 21 x 29.7 cm and 29.7 x 42 cm.
  • Pads come with six light (soft) or dark (brizzati) colors.
  • Loose sheets are 50 x 65 cm or 70 x 100 cm. Sheets are available in 31 colors.
  • White and black available in rolls 150 x 1,000 cm.
  • Suitable for pastels, pencil, graphite, charcoal, and tempera.

Guide Review - Fabriano Tiziano Pastel Paper

This review is based on a Tiziano pad which contains 30 sheets of 'brizzati' colous. These are five each of a solid black, a solid charcoal, a mottled brown-grey, a mottled pink-grey, a mottled brown, and rather strangely a mottled light green.

There's a different texture on either side of the paper, giving you a choice of 'tooth' quality (relatively smooth or ridged), especially important for pastel painting.

Though the binding is quite strong, if you fold the pad back on itself, the pages tear out reasonably easily. While the binding is likely to hold if you worked on a sheet while it was still in the pad, as the pad doesn’t have tissue paper separating the sheets I would remove a sheet before working on it.
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