I was delighted to have received another product from Sketchbar recently. They sent me their Mirror Paper pad, in exchange for my honest review. I was also delighted to receive, along with the paper pad, a set of their Artist Fine Pens – fineliners in lovely colors.

This paper has a wonderful quality – it’s double sided and bleed-proof, so you can create art on both sides of the paper.

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My first impression of the Mirror Paper, as I thumbed through the pad, was the nice weight and the crisp, white color. I tend to prefer white, rather than ivory paper, (unless I’m using sepia inks), so I love that the paper is white, not ivory.

The paper seems nice and smooth, too. I’m a little overprotective of my brush pens, so I often hesitate to use them on unfamiliar papers. (Brush tips can be prone to fraying, if not used on smooth papers.) Although time will tell, the Mirror Paper appears to be safe for my brush pens. I haven’t tried some of my delicate ones on this paper, yet.

According to the company representative, the paper is suitable for all dry art materials.

The real claim to fame of this paper, though, is the opaque nature of it, with a coating that doesn’t allow ink to bleed through the paper.

So, the Mirror Paper allows for artwork on both sides of the paper, even when the medium is alcohol based Markers. And, as you’ll see below, it absolutely lived up to that claim, when I tested it with Sharpie permanent markers (alcohol based), both brush tip and regular tip.

Blending

I definitely had much better luck blending on this paper with alcohol based markers than I did with watercolor markers. (This paper was probably designed to be used more with alcohol markers, which makes sense. Alcohol markers tend to bleed through paper more, and this paper prevents that.)

Blending with Watercolor Markers

My experience with blending markers has been with watercolor markers, so I tried those first. It did not go well, so I wouldn’t recommend this paper for blending watercolor markers. Honestly, I don’t think that blending watercolor markers is the main purpose of this paper. (I didn’t even bother taking a picture of this attempt because the watercolor markers basically wouldn’t blend at all for me, on this paper.)

Blending with Alcohol Based Markers

I used Sharpie permanent markers and did some layering and blending. I’m brand new to blending with alcohol based markers, so this was a great opportunity to give it a try.

Because the Mirror paper is so opaque, I do think it’s more suited to use with alcohol based markers, as there tends to be more bleed-through with those, and this paper is designed to prevent bleed-through (which it achieves beautifully.) I found that when I laid down several heavy layers of ink, the paper did break down a bit, but the blending was nice. (I was laying down a lot of ink.) And, there was absolutely no bleed through to the back of the paper.

This is truly double-sided and will allow you to use both sides of the paper!

I found the Mirror paper to be a lovely, quality paper that is truly double sided and allows for artwork on both sides of one sheet of paper.

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