Best Craft Hardboard in 2026

ALL PURPOSE - Great for all kinds of uses, these thin cardboard sheets work wonderfully as a book board, illustration board, and other types of craft board

STURDY - Get more stability across the board with these hardboard sheets. They feature a lightweight yet resilient surface perfect for mixing paints, backing photos, or taping down watercolor paper.

ECONOMICAL - If you ever need a nifty alternative to pricey canvas panels or MDF boards, these large cardboard sheets can easily be repurposed for any project and discarded as needed.

MUSEUM-QUALITY HARDBORD: The most stable substrate on the market for your artwork. Ampersand’s premium, warp-resistant, FSC-Certified Hardbord will ensure your artwork is supported to prevent damage from warping, bowing or movement

HIGHLY VERSATILE PAINTING SURFACE: Perfectly suited for all acrylic gessoes, specialty grounds, traditional gesso and oil primers

SUPPORT FOR MOUNTING: Use as a support to mount watercolor papers, photographs, fabrics, prints and more

MUSEUM-QUALITY HARDBORD: The most stable substrate on the market for your artwork. Ampersand’s premium, warp-resistant, FSC-Certified Hardbord will ensure your artwork is supported to prevent damage from warping, bowing or movement

HIGHLY VERSATILE PAINTING SURFACE: Perfectly suited for all acrylic gessoes, specialty grounds, traditional gesso and oil primers

SUPPORT FOR MOUNTING: Use as a support to mount watercolor papers, photographs, fabrics, prints and more

6 Pack of 9x12 hardboards

Boards are 1/8-inch thick

Long-term stability makes it the best substrate for your art!

-This 360 degree rotatable color wheel help you to understand color relationship and make choices and combinations easier.

-The front side shows basic principles. Just spin the wheel and you will find the color mixing results in the window.

-The back side indicates the color relationships such as complementary colors and triad colors. It gives you more color combo inspiration when creating.

Features a shade, tints and tones, definitions of color terms, and illustrations of color.

A nice tool for people to show intuitionistic color difference. And they will know the difference between similar colors.

Teaches color relationships by organizing colors in a circle. Simple and easy to learn color with it.

11-Inch-by-14-inch

Boards are 1/8-inch thick

Smooth one side of a Medium light tan hardboard

YOU WILL GET: 12 smooth rock in a canvas bundle pocket

HAND PICK: In order to make sure rock is suitable for drawing, each rock is manually selected and checked

SIZE: About 3 to 4 inches, every piece is natural and unique, shape and sizes are a little different from each other

Bulk pack of 12

Medium density untempered hardboard

Made in the USA

12-Inch-by-16-inch

Boards are 1/8-inch thick

Smooth one side of a Medium light tan hardboard

Bulk pack of 6

Medium density untempered hardboard

Made in the USA

MUSEUM-QUALITY HARDBORD: The most stable substrate on the market for your artwork. Ampersand’s premium, warp-resistant, FSC-Certified Hardbord will ensure your artwork is supported to prevent damage from warping, bowing or movement

HIGHLY VERSATILE PAINTING SURFACE: Perfectly suited for all acrylic gessoes, specialty grounds, traditional gesso and oil primers

SUPPORT FOR MOUNTING: Use as a support to mount watercolor papers, photographs, fabrics, prints and more

Package Include: you will receive 4 pieces of color wheels in 2 sizes, measuring about 5.5 inches and 9 inches in diameter, the artist wheels help show which colors are complimentary, and how they go (or do not go) together, ideal for learning how to color

Color Mixing Guide: the color wheel chart shows color, from basic principles and color mixing results on the front side; Spin around the paint wheel, then you will find the color mixture results in the windows, to learn the color theory in a fun way

Color Leaning Tool: the backside of the painters color wheel that visually illustrates relationships between colors and demonstrates the results features a grayscale, and triad colors tints and tones, definitions of color terms, and illustrations of color, such as complementary colors, and triad colors

MUSEUM-QUALITY HARDBORD: The most stable substrate on the market for your artwork. Ampersand’s premium, warp-resistant, FSC-Certified Hardbord will ensure your artwork is supported to prevent damage from warping, bowing or movement

HIGHLY VERSATILE PAINTING SURFACE: Perfectly suited for all acrylic gessoes, specialty grounds, traditional gesso and oil primers

SUPPORT FOR MOUNTING: Use as a support to mount watercolor papers, photographs, fabrics, prints and more

Enough to Satisfy Needs: this package gives you 10 pieces of color paint mixing guide wheels, about 14 cm/ 5.51 inches in diameter, sufficient in quantity, helpful for you to learn how to organize, mix colors and inspire creativity

Funny to Use: these color paint mixing guide wheel charts are easy to use, make it efficient and fun for you to learn and master the basics of color theory, let you know which colors complement each other, what colors are warm and cool, how to blend the colors and so on

Color Mixing Helpers: our color tool for quilts can visually show you the relationship between colors and demonstrate the result of color mixing exactly, guiding you to choose or add colours and helping you find harmonious colors

Hardboard primed with encaustic gesso for a bright-smooth-velvety surface

Heat resistant ground-highly absorbent-holds layers of wax without cracking

Ideal for Encaustic painting- Mixed Media- Oils- Collage- Photo Transfers

Bulk pack of 6

Medium density untempered hardboard

Made in the USA

Bulk pack of 12

Medium density untempered hardboard

Made in the USA

Build up unique painting grounds & textures on this artist-grade hardboard

Comes with complete priming instructions-should be primed before painting

Moisture resistant and formaldehyde free - archival - eco-friendly

Hardboard primed with encaustic gesso for a bright-smooth-velvety surface

Heat resistant ground-highly absorbent-holds layers of wax without cracking

Ideal for Encaustic painting- Mixed Media- Oils- Collage- Photo Transfers

Different from traditional embroidery and painting arts, it is made of threads that are twisted in multiple layers

Let the craftsmanship awaken the long-lost perception.

Use the string to feel the temperature of your fingertips;

Just rotate the dial, different colors' mixture effects present.

Just rotate the dial, different colors' mixture effects present.

A good helper for persons who work on tattooing business.

COLOR MIXING GUIDE: The color wheel shows color, from basic principles and color mixing results on the front side; Spin around the paint wheel, then you will find the color mixture results in the windows, to learn the color theory in a fun way.

COLOR LEANING TOOL: The backside of the color artist wheel that visually illustrates relationships between colors and demonstrates the results features a grayscale, and triad colors tints and tones, definitions of color terms, and illustrations of color, such as complementary colors, and triad colors

THREE-TIER DESIGN: The color wheel is a tool for finding harmonious color combinations. Three-tier design and the central circle rotates for search of optimum color combinations. In the twelve color wheel, any hue has a clear position without confusion.

Can be used in the art classroom to arouse students' interests.

A good helper for persons who work on tattooing business.

Double sides demonstrate the results of color mixture elaborately.

Can be used in the art classroom to arouse students' interests.

Just rotate the dial, different colors' mixture effects present.

Know and mix different colors in an easy and convenient way.