Arches Aquarelle Watercolor Matte Paper

Arches® Aquarelle Watercolor Paper 310 gsm weight, 20.8 mils thickness is a 100% cotton rag white watercolor paper, and Arches is the only paper mill in France using a traditional cylinder mould process for the world’s number one mold-made watercolor paper and is now available for the Digital Fine Art market.
Using the traditional watercolor base, the paper has an even natural grain and a soft supple felt-marked finish. This paper complies with the highest archival standards and is extremely age resistant.

Arches Aquarelle Watercolor Paper characteristics are truly unique: an extremely high white value at 96.76 without the use of Optical Brightener Agents (OBAs), and produces prints with superb color rendition, deep blacks (Dmax) and pure whites, offering photographers, artists and printmakers the opportunity to create images with superb tonal range, excellent highlights and mid-tones.

Our Custom ICC Printer Profile testing indicates on our Canon Pro-2000 12-Pigment Ink Printer  Shadow Detail down to a Black Point of 4-6, and Highlight detail up to a White Point of 252-253, when using a Perceptual Rendering Intent, Impressive for a Watercolor Matte paper.