This paper is great, it is practically indestructible. I was able to add layer after layer of colored pencil color and get some interesting blending effects. You can lift color  off pretty well too, with an eraser or a solvent like turpenol. Of course if you use turpenol, it's hard to control the area you're trying to cleanup.

What I discovered using turpenol was that I could lay down color and then load a brush with the stuff and blend the color as if they were paint. That is how I created the dark blue background areas, and some of the forefront road colors.

The turpenol is hard to control, but it definitely gave a whole different feel to the color. I had been struggling to get a soft misty feel to the sky behind Sam, but just could not get it right with only the dry colored pencils. Part of the problem with this picture was that I didn't plan the background enough to do a good job.

Who knows, maybe I will come back later to this and try to salvage it, for now it will sit on my easel where I can look at it once in a while and think on it.