Watercolor Paper Prices - Down to the Inch!

Several folks have e-mailed asking about the paper sizes and prices vs. others.  Basically they wanted to know which one price/size was the best deal.  I know all of the papers come in different sheet sizes and/or packages so I decided to do the math so I could answer the question as best I can.  I took all of the measurements and figured out the prices by the inch.  So basically below is the paper cost for one square inch of paper.  I was rather surprised that some of the papers preforming the best (IMO) were some of the cheapest!

Most expensive to the least expensive:

(per square inch)

Arches Cold Press 140lb - $ 0.012

Ranger - $ 0.01

Arches Hot Press 140lb - $ 0.0089

Fabrino Artistico  - $ 0.0053

Hero Hues - $ 0.0053

Fabrino Studio - $ 0.0025

Dick Blick 140lb CP - $ 0.0023

Bienfng - $ 0.0016

Strathmore 140lb CP - $ 0.0016

Canson 140lb CP - $ 0.0015

Dick Blick Student WC - $ 0.0014

Canson Mixed Media Paper - $ 0.0009

Dick Blick Mixed Media Paper - $ 0.0009

Crayola WC paper - $ 0.0004

So there you go...

true price of each of the different WC papers.

Hope that helps!