Review on Speedball Quattro Artist Sketch Journal 3.5 X 8.25 by Katie Smith

I love these Quattro notebooks. It's a kind of heavy watercolor paper that doesn't bleed and takes almost any kind of ink well. It has a tooth so charcoal and pencil works well too. The binding is solid and holds up to being carried around in a back pocket or shirt pocket day-to-day. Over time the cardboard backing can come loose but usually by then I have filled up the notebook. They don't stay as flat as some other books but that seems to be a tradeoff you have to make between lighter-weight paper and spiral bindings which I dislike. I have several sizes and I like the 8 1/4 length for writing but it's much harder to carry around than the 4 1/2" version.