Fabriano Toned Paper Pad 120gsm Clay A3 50sht

Fabriano Toned Paper Pad 120gsm Clay A3 is a 50-sheet pad of premium quality grey-toned drawing paper from Fabriano, one of the world's most respected paper manufacturers with a history dating back to 1264. The Clay tone is a refined, neutral grey that provides a distinctive mid-tone ground, sitting between the lightest highlights and deepest shadows of a composition. This pre-established middle tone transforms the approach to drawing, allowing artists to work simultaneously towards light and dark from a neutral starting point rather than building up from white.

The paper is manufactured with 15% cotton content blended with pure cellulose fibres, giving it a combination of softness, tactile quality and structural strength that distinguishes it from standard drawing papers. The smooth, natural surface holds dry media beautifully, allowing for controlled mark-making, subtle blending and layered tonal work across a wide range of drawing techniques. The 120gsm weight provides sufficient substance to withstand multiple media applications and erasing without buckling or degrading.

The Clay toned ground is particularly effective for tonal drawing and value studies, where students can use white chalk, white charcoal or white pencil to push highlights while simultaneously deepening shadows with graphite, charcoal or dark pastel. This approach accelerates understanding of tonal range and value relationships, making toned paper an invaluable tool for developing observational drawing skills, portrait drawing and still life work at secondary and senior level.

Each sheet is acid-free, ensuring the long-term archival quality of finished works. The pad is glued on one short side, keeping sheets secure during use while allowing clean removal of finished drawings for presentation, portfolio submission and assessment. The larger A3 format provides greater compositional space for life drawing, extended observational studies, portrait work and figure drawing.

Suitable for secondary and senior art students, visual arts HSC programs and observational drawing courses, Fabriano Toned Paper Pad 120gsm Clay A3 is a quality drawing surface that deepens students' understanding of tone, value and the relationship between light and dark in drawing practice.

Fabriano Toned Paper Pad Clay A3 is suited to all dry drawing media including graphite pencil, charcoal, soft pastel, chalk, coloured pencil, crayon, ink pencil and water-based markers. For tonal drawing, use dark media to develop shadow areas and white chalk, white charcoal or white pastel pencil to push highlights, working from the mid-tone of the paper as the neutral middle value.

Sheets can be removed cleanly from the glued pad for presentation and portfolio submission. The acid-free paper is suitable for archival storage of finished works.