Review on 🎨 Strathmore 467-5 STR-467-5 48-Sheet Watercolor Art Journal - 8.5 x 5.5" - High Quality, 140lb Paper, Convenient Size by Hannah Curi

This magazine is really good, the hard cover is beautiful, it opens easily, the paper is good and thick, but there is a problem with the sketchbook, the pages are not double sided, I mean this: you have one side, and on one side of the page you have a nice cold-pressed watercolor finish (which I think is very nice), but on the other side of the page, like the back of a real cold-pressed sheet of metal. On the back of the page is something called water repellent, so if the paint you put there takes forever to dry, and it dries kinda weird. So the sketchbook has 48 pages, but you only have 24 matching sheets to draw. I would only buy it again if Strathmore fixes this because the cold press watercolor finish is really nice to work with but as half the pages are useless the page count drops to 24 and it won't last long so I really hope so they fix this problem !