Van Gogh Black Watercolour Postcard Block: Deep Jet-Black Base for Radiant Custom Fine Art Correspondence
The Van Gogh Black Watercolour Postcard Block is a professional-grade, specialized substrate engineered to unlock the dramatic potential of light-reflective and high-opacity mediums. By utilizing a deep, solid black base rather than conventional white sheets, this paper allows pearlescent pigments, iridescent tones, and metallic accents to pop with immediate contrast and vivid luminosity. Featuring an integrated postcard template on the reverse side, this pocket-sized block connects your specialized brushwork directly to a unique, travel-ready correspondence medium.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Deep Jet-Black Background: The paper fibers are thoroughly saturated with an intense, uniform black pigment that absorbs standard light, making it perfect in combination with interference (pearlescent) and metallic watercolours to make specialty colours really pop.
- Integrated Postcard Layout: The back of each individual sheet is printed with a standard postcard template, enabling you to add a stamp and mail original, hand-painted artwork to friends or collectors once the paint is dry.
- Refined Fine-Grain Texture: Features a delicate fine-grain cold-pressed finish that provides the optimal mechanical tooth to catch reflective pigment films while remaining smooth enough for precise detail lines and writing on the reverse.
- Extra-Heavy Material Weight Density: Featuring an exceptional weight of 360 g/m², this thick, robust paper provides maximum structural stiffness to resist warping under high water volumes and endure international postal handling.
- Stable One-Side Glued Binding: The sheets are bound securely in a practical pad that is glued on one side, keeping your working surface flat and organized during application while facilitating effortless, tear-free sheet separation.
- Travel-Friendly Pocket Dimensions: The 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (A6 format) specifications offer a compact canvas that fits easily into urban sketching kits, watercolor field bags, and standard envelopes.
Application and Usage Guidelines
- Optimized specifically to maximize the visual presentation of interference watercolours, metallic paints, high-opacity gouache, iridescent acrylic inks, and opaque gel markers.
- Work directly on the bound pad to take advantage of its rigid, cushioned structural support, eliminating the need to stretch or tape down the paper before starting.
- Allow the painting to dry thoroughly before separation; gently peel the top page away from the single glued margin to ensure crisp, unbent corners, then fill out the message and address sections on the back template using stable writing inks.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Van Gogh Black Watercolour Postcard Pad
- Dimensions: 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (A6 Postcard Format)
- Material Weight Density: 360 g/m²
- Paper Color: Solid deep black
- Surface Finish: Fine-grain cold-pressed texture
- Binding Format: Glue bound on one side (1-side glued pad)
- Package Quantity: 10 sheets
- Reverse Side Layout: Pre-printed postcard address, message, and stamp template
- Material Compatibility: Specialized for interference watercolours, metallic watercolours, opaque fluid gouache, acrylic inks, and metallic markers
