Comments about Borden & Riley Borden & Riley Denril Multi-Media Vellum:

I wasn't sure if this would be completely translucent or not based off the description, so I took a chance on it. As it turns out, while its translucent, its like a high quality tracing paper - that kind of whitish material that is see through.

For what it is, I'm sure it's very good, but it wasn't what I was looking for at all. And because I had to open it up to see the sheets, I couldn't return it.

This would've been solved for me, instantly, were there photos of the actual sheets instead of a photo of the sealed package.

I probably won't buy this kind of thing online anymore unless I can see it for myself.

Comments about Borden & Riley Borden & Riley Denril Multi-Media Vellum:

denril (polyester) film does what matte mylar does but its better for wet media in my opinion.

It has slightly more tooth than mylar, un noticable as far as beig able to draw smoothly with nib pens, but it picks up ink and other wet media better than mylar does in my experience, its slightly less translucint than single matte mylar but then again this is double matte. it takes pencil and other dry media about the same

for those that have never used either, give some a try, its great. If you are using nib pens (hunt, speedball, etc.) in my opinion this is the best you can get,the pens will not skip on it, they draw smoother than on any other surface that I've tried, it looks like your drawing with a ruling pen!

The there are a few drawbacks, one is that it takes a bit for the ink to dry, so you have to be carefull. Also an advantage and at the same time a disadvantage is the fact that you can erase your ink lines. This is not a problume for me because I draw my my prep drawing on another sheet and then lay the transulucint denril over it to ink it, so I don't need to erase my pencil. if you use a brush, it will be gennerally less opaque on this than it would on vellum or bristol, as the film does not really absorb any ink, my souloution to this (actually one a friend told me) is to mix india ink with carbon black acrilic paint at a 40 to 60 paint / ink ratio (if you want a super matte finish use the dick blick black cat ink and the liquitex basics ivory black) you need to put some ball berings in the bottle though and shake it up before each use.

Comments about Borden & Riley Borden & Riley Denril Multi-Media Vellum:

With this vellum, you can lift off mistakes completely, create layers of color on both sides to take advantage of its translucence, and use many different media. Of course, it does not take washes as smoothly as watercolor paper, but I didn't want it as a watercolor paper. Also, I had a little trouble telling which side was the more usable. But, that's easy enough to figure out. I'm using it for colored pencil, gouache and ink mixed media paintings and I find it an exciting substrate for that.