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Smooth Drawing Paper
The Smooth Drawing Paper offers high-quality 96gsm natural white paper with a smooth, untextured surface – perfect for dry media, technical pens, and pen and ink work. Its lighter weight makes it ideal for sketching, preliminary work, and high-quality drafting. The surface ensures clean, precise lines and excellent control across a range of drawing techniques. […]
Smooth Heavyweight Paper
The Smooth Heavyweight Pad features premium 220gsm natural white cartridge paper with a smooth, untextured surface. Ideal for a wide range of dry media, this versatile paper is especially suited to technical pens, ink work, and light watercolour washes. Its heavyweight construction allows for easy corrections, making it perfect for both practice and final artwork. […]
Aquafine Watercolour Smooth Paper
Aquafine Watercolour Smooth Paper is a 300gsm hot-pressed paper which offers a smooth, untextured surface favoured by watercolourists seeking precision and detail. Made from virgin wood pulp, it is acid-free and alkaline buffered to protect against colour deterioration, ensuring longevity for your artwork. Its substantial weight provides excellent absorbency, making it forgiving and easy to […]
Smooth Cartridge Paper
Daler-Rowney’s Smooth Cartridge Paper is crafted for precision, offering a clean, natural white surface with no texture to interrupt fine detail. Available in 130gsm or 150gsm, this high-quality paper is an excellent choice for illustrators, designers, students, and professionals working in dry media or technical applications. Internally sized with synthetic sizing, it supports clean mark-making […]
Cream Core Mountboard Smooth Surface
Cream Core Mountboard Smooth Surface features a smooth surface paper and a characteristic pale ivory coloured core. Made from virgin wood pulp, the core offers a clean, crisp bevel cut, making it ideal for everyday framing and mounting. The smooth surface is one of over 100 colour options in the Cream Core range. Each board […]
White Core Mountboard Smooth Surface
The White Core Mountboard Smooth Surface features a smooth surface paper combined with a natural white, conservation-grade core. Made from alpha cellulose fibres, its 1.4mm thickness ensures a sharp, clean bevel cut, perfect for professional framing and presentation. Available in over 100 colours, each board is lignin-free, pH neutral, alkaline-sized, and buffered with calcium carbonate […]
Conservation Mountboard Smooth Surface
Conservation Mountboard Smooth Surface is a 1.4mm mountboard featuring a smooth surface paper paired with a natural white conservation-grade core. Ideal for professional use, it provides a clean, sharp bevel cut perfect for framing. The smooth surface is one of over 30 colour options in the Conservation range, offering excellent colour fastness, resilience, and bleed […]
What does is the difference between smooth and textured paper?
Smooth papers offer a sleek, uniform surface, perfect for intricate details and precise lines. They provide a consistent backdrop, allowing the medium to glide effortlessly across the page. Ideal for techniques that require controlled application, such as detailed drawing or intricate illustration.
Textured papers boast a tactile quality that adds depth and character. Their unique surface adds intrigue and dimension, inviting exploration through varied brushstrokes and rich layers of pigment. For pastels, watercolours, charcoal, or mixed media, textured papers offer an excellent surface.
What is the difference between smooth and textured drawing paper?
Smooth paper is ideal for fine detail, technical drawing, and pen work. Textured paper is better for shading, expressive sketching, and dry media like charcoal and pastel. The choice depends on whether control or texture is more important for your work.
Lucy Ann O’Donnell
English–Irish oil painter Lucy Ann O’Donnell creates highly realistic, light-focused paintings inspired by classical art and Dutch realism, exploring perception and the quiet beauty of everyday life.
