Fabriano Toned Paper Pad 120gsm Moss A3 50sht

Fabriano Toned Paper Pad 120gsm Moss A3 is a 50-sheet pad of premium quality muted olive green-toned drawing paper from Fabriano, one of the world's most respected paper manufacturers with a history dating back to 1264.

The Moss tone is a distinctive, earthy olive green — quiet, complex and naturally evocative — that provides an unusual and highly characterful mid-tone ground. The cool green undertone lends works drawn on it a distinctive atmosphere particularly well suited to botanical studies, nature-inspired subjects, environmental themes and experimental or conceptual drawing practice.

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 Moss toned ground creates striking contrast with both white highlight media and dark shadow media, producing a bold tonal range across the cool green mid-tone. White chalk, white charcoal or white pastel pencil reads with particular luminosity against the muted green ground, while graphite, charcoal and dark pastel deepen into rich, atmospheric shadows. The distinctive colour of the paper becomes an active element of the finished work, contributing to the overall mood and visual identity of the drawing.

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, botanical illustration and larger experimental drawing works.

Suitable for secondary and senior art students, visual arts HSC programs and observational and experimental drawing courses, Fabriano Toned Paper Pad 120gsm Moss A3 is a quality drawing surface that challenges students to work creatively with an unconventional toned ground and deepens their understanding of colour, tone and atmospheric qualities in drawing practice.

Fabriano Toned Paper Pad Moss 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, using the olive green tone of the paper as the natural 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.