I wish I could give a 5 star review. I love Moleskine, and the watercolor album is great. The pages don't show through with watercolor or ink. The paper has a bit of a 'tooth' to it, so it is fantastic for watercolor. I don't recommend it for sketching or ink work because the texture can cause a 'wiggle' in your mark making. But overall it's great for watercolor and I like the fact that it is bound on the top edge of the book. I am taking a star away just because my book came with loose stitching on one page, so that the page fell out when I opened it the first time. The other pages are fine, it was just one page, but it was the first page in the book!