Art and Illustration Boards

Dick Blick's 14-ply board is a good student-grade illustration board for the junior-senior high school level. Its slightly textured surface is great for pencil, pastel, watercolor, or pen-and-ink.

Professional grade, for use with a variety of media. Heavy weight board with high rag content, medium textured surface. 24-ply.

Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They're also suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film.

Crescent Cold Press Illustration Boards have a slightly textured surface, and are used for illustration in a variety of media.

Super Black presentation boards have an extremely rich matte black surface and core. Perfect for all illustration, mounting and presentation projects.

This board provides an ideal foundation for pen-and-ink renderings, technical drawings, or work in hard pencil. It has a rich, natural white surface that is hard enough to support detailed work. 60 point. 130 gsm.

Canson XL Bristol is a heavyweight, bright white, acid-free bristol paper that provides great contrast for both wet and dry media such as inks, graphite, colored pencils, markers, pastels — even light washes. Smooth or vellum. Erases well. 100 lb (260 gsm). 19" × 24" sheets.

Rising Artist Bristol Board is a fine quality, acid-free sulphite bristol for a variety of uses. It's available in two finishes - Vellum and Plate.

Regular surface--for pencil, charcoal and pastel. Smooth surface--for detailed ink work, pencil, and marker. Both surfaces excellent for airbrush. Good choice when longevity of cotton fibers isn't essential. Acid-free. 2 to 4-ply.

Industry standard. Plate surface (hot press)--for fine pen and pencil, airbrush work. Vellum surface (cold press)--for pencil, colored pencil, soft-hard charcoal, hard pastel, oil pastel, airbrush. 100% cotton fiber, acid-free. 2 to 4-ply.

Sequential Art is a form of telling a story through the use of pictures in a narrative sequence. Comics, cartoons, and graphic novels all fall into this popular category. Strathmore fine art surfaces are now offered in formats to fit every application.

Your presentations will be more powerful and your mats will be more beautiful because Illustration Boards allow brighter, truer colors in every medium.

This cold press, 80 lb all purpose illustration board will not warp or bow, making it ideal for both wet and dry media, including charcoal, crayon, pencil, and watercolor.

Dick Blick's 14-ply board is a good student-grade illustration board for the junior-senior high school level. Its slightly textured surface is great for pencil, pastel, watercolor, or pen-and-ink.

Ideal for spray paint and oil-based, alcohol-based, or pigmented markers, these strong, triple-thick marker boards stand up to rigorous layering techniques.

Professional grade, for use with a variety of media. Heavy weight board with high rag content, medium textured surface. 24-ply.

Crescent No. 110 Illustration Board is a heavy weight, professional grade board with a medium textured, 100% rag, acid-free surface. Each board is 24-ply and 0.09" (2.3 mm) thick.

Professional grade, single thick (0.50-0.60) board for multi-media use. Blue/White color with a cream core.

Professional grade, for use with a variety of media. Heavy weight board with high rag content, medium textured surface. 16-ply.

Crescent No. 310 Illustration Board is a medium weight, professional grade board with a medium textured, 100% rag, acid-free surface. Each board is 14-Ply and 0.050" (1.3 mm) thick.

Crescent Cold Press Illustration Boards have a slightly textured surface, and are used for illustration in a variety of media.

For brush, pen or pencil. Warping is prevented via 100% cotton fiber, acid-free paper mounted on both sides to high quality white board to create a balanced tension. 10 and 20-ply.

Strathmore 500 Series Illustration Board is a professional-quality, 100% cotton, heavyweight board with a durable vellum finish. Ideal for drawing, with internal sizing for light washes and wet-on-wet applications. 78 pt.

Sequential Art is a form of telling a story through the use of pictures in a narrative sequence. Comics, cartoons, and graphic novels all fall into this popular category. Strathmore fine art surfaces are now offered in formats to fit every application.

Super Black presentation boards have an extremely rich matte black surface and core. Perfect for all illustration, mounting and presentation projects.

Your presentations will be more powerful and your mats will be more beautiful because Illustration Boards allow brighter, truer colors in every medium.

This hot press, 80 lb all purpose illustration board has a very smooth surface used primarily for pen and ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. It is suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film.

Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They're also suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film.

Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used primarily for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They're also suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film.

Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They're also suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film. Excellent quality boards.

Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used primarily for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They're also suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film. Bright white.

Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They're also suitable for keylines, acrylic washes, airbrush, and adhesive film.

Dick Blick's 14-ply board is a good student-grade illustration board for the junior-senior high school level. Its slightly textured surface is great for pencil, pastel, watercolor, or pen-and-ink.

Perfect for creating artwork with alcohol inks! Brea Reese Alcohol Ink Panels have non-porous polypropylene surfaces. Apply alcohol ink directly from the bottle, or use a dauber, brush, foam roller, mister, or straw to create a wide variety of effects.

This board provides a dramatic surface for pencil, chalk, and gouache. The very finely textured surface paper is acid-free and highly resistant to light and fading. 60 point. 150 gsm.

C' a Grain Art Boards provides a luxurious surface with a pronounced texture for drawing that stands up to repeated erasing and reworking. It is ideal for charcoal, Conte crayon, pastels or very soft pencil.

Primed and ready for oil paint, oil pastels, or acrylic paints , the canvas-like surface of Canson Canva-Paper Art Boards is treated with a high-performance barrier to absorb media, bonding agents, and water evenly. Rigid, acid-free backing. 16" × 20".

The substantial textured surface of Edition art board is excellent for drawing and multimedia expression. Available in either Vanilla or White. 65 point. 250 gsm.

Made without optical brighteners, this ultra-smooth illustration and drawing art board offers a brilliant, extra-white foundation that provides superior contrast for ink, marker, felt-tip pen, and pencil. Also stands up well to erasing and scraping.

This is an ideal substrate for watercolor, acrylic, gouache, or ink washes. Montval art board features natural white French watercolor paper with a cold press surface. 65 point. 185 gsm.

Available in popular sizes, Canson Plein Air Mix Media Pads contain 10 rigid art boards laminated to Canson-quality mix media paper. Excellent for dry and wet media, the textured, acid-free paper accepts acrylics, watercolors, inks, pens, and pencils, and has excellent erasability. Foldover covers.

This pure white art board offers a luminous, fine-textured surface that is ideal for detailed work in pen, pencil, or colored pencil. This sturdy substrate is also erasable. 60 point. 130 gsm.

Rigid enough for quick, gestural paint sketches, yet economical enough to use in the classroom for warm-ups and compositional planning, Crescent Canvas Boards feature a toothy surface that holds paint well. Their solid cream core provides a consistent surface.

Ideal for found, recycled or repurposed objects, as well as markers, inks, acrylics and paper layering, Crescent Collage Boards are the ideal surface for collage. The medium-weight, hot press art boards feature a smoother, whiter core for an extra-smooth surface.

Ideal for colored pencils, pastels, charcoal, and graphite, these medium-weight art boards are sturdier and more durable than paper. Their tough, cold press surface features a soft, gritty tooth that holds dry pigments and stands up to applications of multiple mediums and layers.

Crescent Textured Black Art Boards come in sizes most requested by artists. For drawing, painting, pastels, chalk, colored pencils, and mixed media, these double-sided, medium-weight (0.050–0.060 thick), pH-neutral black art boards also have a solid black core. 3-packs.

Crescent Watercolor Board is a 100% cotton rag, acid-free watercolor paper mounted on one side of an extra heavy, 1/8" thick, 40 ply board to eliminate the need for stretching. Paper is a 140 lb (300 gsm) weight paper.

Join the Fredrix revolution! This innovative 100% cotton artist canvas combines the texture of a natural, woven fabric with a specially formulated gesso designed for all water-based paints. Archival boards are mounted on rigid, non-warping hardboard core.

Accepts both oil and water-based paints without warping. Made with paper and thermal-set epoxy resin--media adheres without penetration. Can be erased, scraped, and sanded, both front and back are usable. Approx. 1/32" thick.

Strathmore 500 Series Illustration Board is a professional-quality, 100% cotton, heavyweight board with a durable vellum finish. Ideal for drawing, with internal sizing for light washes and wet-on-wet applications. 78 pt.

Pastelbord is perfect for soft or oil pastels and pastel pencils - colors go on smooth, blend beautifully and stay rich and vibrant in both wet and dry pastel paintings. Or paint on Pastelbord to achieve amazing results with acrylics, oils, and more.

Art Spectrum Colourfix Optimum Boards are premium, high-density foam boards that are screen printed by hand with a lightfast, sanded acrylic gesso. Superb for use with pastels, oil colors, acrylics, inks, gouache, watercolors, and dry media such as charcoal and pencils, they offer a robust, toothy surface that will hold multiple layers of media.

Canson Mi-Teintes Art Board has a textured surface which provides the ultimate foundation for pastel, charcoal or conté crayon. Available in a wide array of lightfast colors.

Crescent Textured Black Art Boards come in sizes most requested by artists. For drawing, painting, pastels, chalk, colored pencils, and mixed media, these double-sided, medium-weight (0.050–0.060 thick), pH-neutral black art boards also have a solid black core. 3-packs.

Hahnemühle Velour Board has a soft velvet-like surface, yet it is mounted to a rigid board.It's the perfect surface for dry techniques using soft pastels and charcoal. Colors adhere very well, but the use of spray fixative is recommended.

Perfect for studio or plein air use, these portable pastel panels eliminate taping and mounting. The acid-free, buffered, pH-neutral surface on Hand Book Paper Co. Pastel Premier Conservation Panels can accept as many as 25 layers of pastel and be underpainted with wet media.

An ideal surface for pastel work, Pastel Artist Panels are dimensionally stable and non-warping yet thin and lightweight — perfect for plein air and travel. The 320 grit surface readily accepts heavy layers of pastel, but can also be used for oil and water media.

UArt Premium Sanded Pastel Paper is affixed to the boards with acid-free glue. This premium-quality, neutral-colored sanded paper accepts many layers of hard or soft pastels, yet also works well with other media.