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Art and Illustration Boards
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Item #: 08910
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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 dr...
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Item #: 08910
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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 dr...
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Item #: 13407
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Professional grade, for use with a variety of media. Heavy weight board with high rag content, medium textured surface. 24-ply.
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Item #: 13407
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Professional grade, for use with a variety of media. Heavy weight board with high rag content, medium textured surface. 24-ply.
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Item #: 13406
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Crescent Cold Press Illustration Boards have a slightly textured surface, and are used for illustration in a variety of media.
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Item #: 13406
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Crescent Cold Press Illustration Boards have a slightly textured surface, and are used for illustration in a variety of media.
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Item #: 13309
$4.23 - $33.02
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Industry standard. Plate surface (hot press)--for fine pen and pencil, airbrush work. Vellum surface (cold press)--for pencil, colored pencil, soft-ha...
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Item #: 13309
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Industry standard. Plate surface (hot press)--for fine pen and pencil, airbrush work. Vellum surface (cold press)--for pencil, colored pencil, soft-ha...
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Item #: 13324
$11.92 - $54.41
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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 th...
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Item #: 13324
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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 th...
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Item #: 13411
$5.48 - $89.02
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Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They...
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Item #: 13411
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Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic design. They...
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Item #: 13414
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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 f...
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Item #: 13414
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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 f...
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Item #: 13414
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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 f...
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Item #: 10745
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UArt Premium Sanded Pastel Paper is affixed to the boards with acid-free glue. This premium-quality, sanded paper accepts many layers of hard or soft ...
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Item #: 13447
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Super Black presentation boards have an extremely rich matte black surface and core. Perfect for all illustration, mounting and presentation projects.
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Item #: 13307
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Strathmore 300 Series Bristol is ideal for rough drawing or finished comps with pencil, pen, and marker.
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Item #: 11447
$25.50 - $48.00
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Clairefontaine Pastelmat Mounted Board are comprised of 360 gsm Pastelmat papers attached to foam boards measuring 1.8 mm. Ideal for use on an easel o...
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Item #: 13011
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Canson Mi-Teintes Art Board has a textured surface which provides the ultimate foundation for pastel, charcoal or conté crayon. Available in a wide ar...
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Item #: 13301
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Regular surface--for pencil, charcoal and pastel. Smooth surface--for detailed ink work, pencil, and marker. Both surfaces excellent for airbrush. Goo...
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Item #: 13305
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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 ba...
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Item #: 13401
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Accepts both oil and water-based paints without warping. Made with paper and thermal-set epoxy resin--media adheres without penetration. Can be erased...
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Item #: 13408
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Professional grade, for use with a variety of media. Heavy weight board with high rag content, medium textured surface. 16-ply.
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Item #: 09812
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A combination of convenience and portability make Canson Plein Air Canva Artboards ideal for plein air or studio use. High-quality Canson papers are l...
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Item #: 13424
$6.82 - $25.50
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, pe...
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Item #: 13876
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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...
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Item #: 13406
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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-...
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Item #: 13440
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Rigid enough for quick, gestural paint sketches, yet economical enough to use in the classroom for warm-ups and compositional planning, Crescent Canva...
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Item #: 13412
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Crescent Hot Press Illustration Boards have very smooth surfaces, and are used primarily for pen-and-ink, mounting, transfer lettering, and graphic de...
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Blick offers a wide selection of boards and panels for art, illustration, mixed media, and more. Illustration board is a thick board with paper affixed to a rigid backing. Ideal for finished work and reproduction, illustration board has only one usable side and comes in both hot and cold press varieties, suitable for pen-and-ink, graphite, light watercolor washes, charcoal, colored pencils, mixed media, and even acrylics or gouache.
Bristol Board provides two working surfaces, front and back. Great for paint as well as drawing media. A bristol board is usually lighter in weight and is intended for longer term use and preservation. The better quality bristol boards are archival. Bristol board is thinner than illustration board, has two usable sides, and is also available in smooth or vellum finishes. Smooth bristol board has a flat, untextured surface for work with pencils, pen-and-ink, markers, gouache, and acrylics. Media that require a toothy or textured finish, such as charcoal or pastels, are best suited for vellum surface bristol board or boards and panels designed specifically for accepting multiple layers of color.
Cold Press Illustration Board has a slightly textured surface that works well a variety of media, including acrylic paint, charcoal, watercolor, tempera, pastels, and more. The textured surface helps the media adhere easily to the surface.
Hot Press Illustration Board has a smooth surface that works well with pen and ink, markers and airbrush. Hot press boards are great when wanting to create detailed work, such as fine lines.
Blick also offers a variety of mixed media boards that have canvas, watercolor paper, or even primed surfaces to accept a variety of media.
Posterboard is used for temporary signs and displays, and as a surface for children's work, but it is not a suitable medium for reproduction or for permanent works of art. It is less costly than bristol or illustration board, and is available in many colors. Tag board is a heavy paper that is equivalent to a lighter posterboard.
Bristol provides two working surfaces, front and back. Illustration board is only finished on one surface.
Although the two can be used interchangeably in some applications. a bristol board is usually lighter in weight and is intended for longer term use and preservation. The better quality bristol boards are archival. An illustration board is intended as a surface for creating artwork that will be scanned or reproduced onto other mediums.
Some illustration boards, especially hot press boards, have bright white or coated surfaces, for higher contrast. These surfaces can aid with scanning and reproduction, but their brightness is probably not helpful in viewing, displaying, and visualizing the work in progress, since it is likely to be reproduced onto a more conventional white surface.
Consider three factors. First of all, are you choosing a surface only for scanning or reproduction, or do you intend to save and display the artwork itself? Secondly, do you need a smooth surface or a more textured surface? Finally, what weight should the board that backs the surface be?
Although they can be used as a surface for finished works, chipboard and matboard are really meant for backing or mounting other works of art. They tend to be much heavier.
Both bristol and illustration boards are rated by the number of layers or "ply" of the board, however the two are not equivalent. Illustration board tends to be thicker and heavier, especially the professional quality boards, reflecting the handling that a finished illustration or mechanical may receive before it is finally approved and used for reproduction. The heaviest bristol, usually a 5-ply board, is roughly equivalent to a medium weight or 14-ply illustration board.
The thickness of bristol and illustration boards, for a given number of ply, are not equivalent. The thickness of a given number of ply for a given type of board, such as a 4-ply bristol or a 14-ply illustration board, differs slightly by the type or grade of board, and by the manufacturer.
Hot press board is smoother, and is generally slightly more expensive for a given size and weight. Artists who work with airbrush, markers, or pen-and-ink often favor a hot press surface. Hot press boards produce sharper and finer lines. Graphic design applications also tend to favor a hot-press surface, especially when adhesive wax, adhesive film, rubber cement, or transfer lettering is used. Hot press board scans better. Sharper detail can be reproduced from its smooth surface.
Cold press board is slightly textured, and is usually favored when a brush is used, as for watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and tempera. Artists who work in a drawing medium that requires some "tooth" to the surface, such as charcoal, crayon, or pastel, also tend to prefer cold press. Calligraphers and graphite and colored pencil artists choose either surface, depending on personal preference.
These terms are used with bristol board, but not illustration board. A plate surface is roughly equivalent to hot press, while a vellum surface is roughly equivalent to cold press.