Victorian naturalists drew what they saw with a patience that is hard to imagine now. This Pepin Press title holds twelve of those plates, butterflies and moths among thistle and nettle, caterpillars mid-crawl along a stem, all reproduced in pale grey line on heavy drawing paper and waiting for color. The printing is light enough that your work sits on top of the drawing rather than competing with it, and the detail rewards slow going, an afternoon at the kitchen table rather than ten minutes. At 180 g/m² the paper is acid free and takes colored pencil, crayon, liquid ink, watercolor, and gouache without buckling, and finished sheets can be pulled out and framed.

• 12 sheets
• 180 g/m² acid free drawing paper
• 9.5" x 13.375"
• Ages 12+