📚 Ranger RGRMDJ.61106 DWakley Media Journal 6x6 White, No Modifications Review

I have been interested in this magazine for a long time. Finally decided the price and time was right. The first one was damaged but Revane took great care of me and I am HAPPY. It's a very different paper than what I'm used to and that's why I hesitated, and it's just an atypical type of paper meant for mixed media. It's very structured. More than cold pressed. But the paper is surprisingly thick and designed to hold a lot of paint and wet environments of all kinds! I'd say the only thing I…

I'm an art journal in every old sketchbook or junk mail catalog so I was very skeptical of a book specifically for painting to buy but OMG! The paper in this book was made in heaven - it will hold up to whatever wet materials I throw at it and won't warp or warp. Pages takes drywall like a champ, then acrylic paint, water-based staining with soluble crayons, collage on gel medium, spray ink, and repeated, intense stencil rubdowns with baby wipes—this paper can take it! It's also sooo thick - if

Before I started working in this very cute magazine, the pages were glued together, and when I opened it, the entire binding was torn and opened. This company tends to sell junk products (e.g. a bunch of pink and black bags with broken plastic zippers that looked like Mod Podge dried paper). I stay away from their distress inks because they are water soluble so they bleed with every wet application and that goes for their stamping inks including seals. But they have some really cool materials…