this paper for Pastel work is just lovely, leaves and oil like painting look to it, I have enjoyed and bought a lot of the paper in as many sizes that i can get, you can work other colors and blend nicely, but I do try to not over work it, but if you do it sill looks fresh, I've left Three pictures for you to view. Just fantastic paper, it comes in shades of Gray scale, and as you can see I've used black scale for "the Bridge" and black scale also for the "Iris", then light gray for the Portrait, this paper comes in 18 by 24, and 9 by 12, I wished they'd make it in 11 by 14, but you can cut the larger one down, I did do the Bridge and the Iris by cutting the 18 by 24 in half. A must for Pastel work!