Van Gogh Watercolour Postcards Block: Premium Fine-Grain Substrate for Custom Fine Art Correspondence
The Van Gogh Watercolour Postcards Block provides fine artists with a high-quality, professional-grade surface engineered to showcase fluid mediums with maximum color clarity. Thoroughly tested and carefully selected to ensure your pigments look their absolute best, this premium paper allows washes to flow uniformly and dry with crisp, beautiful boundaries. Featuring an integrated postcard template on the reverse side, this pocket-sized block connects your spontaneous plein-air studies and miniature paintings directly to an elegant, travel-ready correspondence medium.
Key Features and Artistic Benefits
- Integrated Postcard Layout: The reverse side of each individual sheet is pre-printed with a clean 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 Surface Finish: Features a delicate fine grain cold-pressed texture that provides the optimal mechanical tooth to capture beautiful pigment granulation while remaining smooth enough for precise detail lines and writing on the reverse.
- Substantial Material Weight Density: Featuring a heavy weight of 300 g/m² (140 lb), this thick paper provides the necessary structural stiffness to resist warping under high water volumes and endure the rigors of international postal handling.
- Stable One-Side Glued Binding: The sheets are bound securely in a practical 1-side glued pad format, 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 as the foundational base for Van Gogh watercolours to unlock the most accurate color transitions and brilliant pigment presentation.
- Perfect for travel-friendly wet and dry techniques, including transparent watercolor painting, fluid gouache washes, detailed ink illustrations, and light mixed-media sketching.
- 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 using stable writing inks.
Technical Specifications
- Product Identification: Van Gogh Watercolour Postcards Block
- Dimensions: 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm (A6 Postcard Format)
- Material Weight Density: 300 g/m² (140 lb)
- Surface Finish: Fine grain cold-pressed texture
- Binding Format: Glue bound on one side (1-side glued pad)
- Package Quantity: 25 sheets
- Reverse Side Layout: Pre-printed postcard address, message, and stamp template
- Material Compatibility: Specialized for watercolor paints, liquid watercolor washes, fluid gouache, inks, charcoal, and sketching pencils
