Scholar Sahara Kraft Paper 170gsm, 40 Sheets, Spiral, A4

A spiral-bound pad of toned kraft paper, so you get forty working pages of Scholar's tan Sahara finish without a permanently bound cover.

• 170gsm kraft paper with the fibrous, sand-toned Sahara texture
• 40 sheets, spiral bound, A4 size
• 100% acid free, chlorine free and eco-friendly
• Suited to dry mediums, gel pens, ink, poster paint, acrylic, gouache and light watercolour washes
• Wire spiral spine lets pages fold back flat for easier handling

The Sahara tone is built to act as a mid-value base, letting you push highlights and shadows onto the page rather than building every value up from a white ground, which is a big part of why toned kraft paper is popular for portrait and classical drawing practice. Choosing this spiral pad over the bound Sahara journal elsewhere in this range mostly comes down to preference: the spiral spine lets individual pages fold flat or rotate out of the way, useful if you want to tear a finished piece out to frame or hand in.

Forty sheets at A4 size is a meaningful working stock, generous enough to sketch through a full course, workshop or term without switching paper halfway, and it is easy to combine with dry pastels, charcoal or gel pens across the same page since the kraft surface holds a good range of dry media without much fuss.

A4 and forty sheets make this a solid working pad rather than a precious one-off book, so it's easy to use freely for warm-up sketches as well as finished studies.