Celebrating 10 Years of Toned Paper

Prior to we dive into the heritage of toned paper and why we produced it, let us discuss a very little little bit about what it is.

What is Toned Paper?

Strathmore Toned Paper is a mid-toned colored sheet that will come in heat tan, cool grey, and metal blue.

Setting up your artwork applying mid-selection colored paper makes it possible for for special sketching & drawing options by giving the middle benefit that would usually require to be rendered by the artist. A wider selection of values from light to darkish can be employed, and the middle tone makes it much easier for the artist to intentionally place shadows and highlights.

Retaining the worth of the paper as one particular of the values in the drawing not only will save time, but allows the artist to use graphite or other dark media to press darker values and white pencils or other light-weight media to insert highlights, creating sketches and drawings pop.

^{Artwork by Kelly Foss on Toned Tan Sketch}

Our Toned papers are 100% recycled, comprise 30% publish-consumer fiber, and also include kraft and bark fiber inclusions which adds visible desire. We have a vast selection of toned papers in distinctive weights and formats, which we are going to get into soon.

The Heritage of Strathmore Toned Paper

In 2012, we made Toned Sketch paper after listening to artists in community forums, dialogue groups, blogs and social platforms and discovering unmet desires:

A lot of artists seeking for toned sketch paper for experimenting, rapid scientific tests, sketching, lifetime drawing and journaling
There was rising curiosity in experimenting with mild & dark media, produced by new drawing equipment
Regular toned papers ended up not suited for this have to have: commonly they had been much too textured, or not offered in sketchbook/pad structure
Numerous artists were getting the time to tone their have papers prior to drawing to achieve the wanted have an effect on they were soon after.

With this in brain, we set out to develop a new choice for artists and introduced Toned Sketch Paper in Tan and Grey.

Toned Sketch Paper in Tan and Gray

Weight: 80lb / 118gsm
Surface area: medium
Acid totally free
100% recycled, 30% PCW
Kraft & bark fiber inclusions
Available in pads, sheets, rolls and art journals
Outstanding for graphite, chalk, charcoal, coloured pencil, markers, ink, and all dry media

^{Artwork by @maura_mazzara_art on Toned Grey Sketch}

Toned Mixed Media Paper in Tan and Gray

Toned Sketch paper became an instant hit and we observed lots of artists having fun with the benefits of the paper, even so, some started expressing the desire to add wet media like watercolor, gouache and/or acrylic. The unique Toned Sketch paper was created entirely for dry media and does not contain the sizing demanded to enable it to maintain up to moist media programs. After listening to artist feed-back, we released the next era of toned paper, Toned Combined Media.

It can be a excellent blend combination of our Toned Sketch paper and our 400 Series Blended Media paper with the mid-tone tan and grey shades of the Toned Sketch, and the significant body weight and soaked media houses of the Combined Media.

Bodyweight: 184lb / 300gsm
Surface: medium
Acid totally free
100% recycled, 30% PCW
Kraft & bark fiber inclusions
Available in pads, sheets and artwork journals
Superb for watercolor, gouache, acrylic, graphite, chalk, charcoal, colored pencil, markers, and ink

_{Artwork by @sofiapavanmacias on Toned Grey Blended Media}

Toned Blue Paper

Oh yeah… then we extra a Metal Blue color to the Toned Mixed Media range. Toned Mixed Media papers grew to become a new most loved amid artists and we received lots of requests for additional shades, so we added a blue possibility.

^{Artwork by @rainbowmastery on Toned Blue Mixed Media Paper}

Rapidly-ahead to 2022, and we are excited to announce a different member of the Toned family, Toned Blue Sketch! Previously the toned blue coloration could only be uncovered in the glue-certain combined media format. We’ve acquired a lot of requests from artists for Toned Blue paper in sketchbook format, and we are happy to announce it is now out there!

A lot has occurred in the very last 10 decades with toned paper. Underneath is a comparison chart of all Strathmore Toned Papers that are offered to make it much easier for you to make your mind up which best suits your desires:

And in circumstance you might be a record buff and take pleasure in a timeline, this is a recap of when we released the various members of the toned paper family members:

Toned Blue Sketch Protect Artwork by Justin Maas

We worked with artist Justin Maas for the featured artwork on the covers of the new Toned Blue Sketch paper.

Justin has been applying Toned Tan and Grey Sketch papers for pretty much as long as they’ve been obtainable to create gorgeous portrait drawings. He applied graphite and white charcoal on the new Toned Blue Sketch paper for the go over of the pads, which properly showcases how the two gentle and darkish media can be applied on the mid-tone coloration of the sheet.

See far more of Justin’s wonderful drawings on his Instagram webpage, @maas.artwork.

The Toned Blue Sketch pads come in the exact measurements as the Toned Tan and Grey Sketch pads:

We hope you enjoyed mastering a bit extra about our toned papers, and we like looking at the vast selection of artwork that is getting produced on them! Right here are a several extra pieces completed by a variety of artists on our Toned surfaces:

^{Artwork by @sabine.s.art on Strathmore Toned Tan Sketch}