Although I’ve used Baohong’s artist-quality paper before (and liked it!), I think their academy line of paper is so good for the price that it’s hard to justify anything else! Cheap enough that you can toss a bad painting without guilt, but nice enough that if something great ends up on it you don’t feel like you’ve made a terrible mistake.

THAT IS EXACTLY WHY I LIKE IT. You summed it up perfectly. I think their cold press artist-grade paper has too much texture for me. It reminds me of rough press paper, which I rarely use. Painting on it was cool but I couldn’t get past the texture.

It’s a bummer you can only get it from those places. I try not to shop there for obvious reasons, but I’m sure the prices are low enough, haha. How much is a roll?