Cray-Pas Specialist oil pastels feature vivid color intensity and luminosity and have been developed to meet the demanding performance standards of the professional artist. Excellent overall lightfastness, a smooth and soft body texture and balanced color range make these pastels a versatile, dynamic medium with virtually unlimited uses.
Extremely smooth to apply, high school students, hobbyists and artists can express their spirit with broad strokes, blending colors, to build texture and depth. From dramatic to muted, flamboyant to quiet, the color range allows users to convey any inspired feeling or imaginative image. Expressionist® Extender assists in the creation of color hues that further extends the visual possibilities of the final art form.
Reeves Soft Pastels are made with high quality pigments to give them excellent lightfastness and strong vibrant colors. They are extremely soft and easy to apply. Perfect for color blending and are suitable for use on textured paper or card.
Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastel Sets • Meets non-toxicity requirements • No use of tree-nut oils, soy, latex, wheat, oat, barley,animal oils or waxes, dairy, casein, or egg ingredients • Will not peel, crack or flake, and are easily blend-able • Oil paint effects, overlaying color, and a variety of effects can be experienced
Alphacolor Char-Kole Sticks. Strong, smooth and brilliant pastels rich in pigment with a soft, smooth velvety texture. Colors blend to give an infinite range of tones. For use on plastercraft, cloth or paper. Sticks are square.
This paper wrapped charcoal is velvety smooth and convenient for quick sketching and drawing. There’ s no need to sharpen with traditional sharpening methods, just slowly pull the string, peeling away paper to reveal more charcoal and you are ready to begin drawing again. Peel and sketch charcoal is available in boxes of a dozen sketching tools, in three different degrees.
Blend of natural charcoals and chalks. The compressed ingredients form a semi soft pastel designed to create similar effects to natural charcoal. Blends well.
These Charcoal Pencils are of the highest possible quality. Available in three grades of hardness. They are made of refined compressed charcoal and produce dark black tones.
Printing on canvas is incredibly versatile and a great way to create a ready-to-hang image or artwork. Every canvas that we print is protected with a UV coated acrylic finish to guard the print from dust, moisture and fading. Do you want your canvas stretched on bars or non-stretched? Framed or unframed? Customize the work to make it truly your own.
Nowadays just about anyone can take a good quality photographs with a digital camera. Or take a few hundred pictures and the chances are few will be good, and even one or two outstanding.
Here are a few tips, tricks and techniques on how to make art print poster ready photographs and print ready digital files. Don’t get overwhelmed, there is a lot of information here, but a lot of it is just intuitive. Well, a bit of patience will always help.
First thing – Photo Size
If you taking a digital photo of you family or friend the largest size you would print is usually 5 by 7 inches, maybe 8 by 10 at the most. Even small size digital photographs (2MB or less) are ‘good enough’ to create a decent print. But if you want to create prints that are 16 by 20, 20 by 24 inches or larger you need more pixels (in pixels 20 by 24 inches photo is actually about 40 times larger than 3 by 4 inches photo assuming they have the same resolution).
Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art. Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with watercolor paint, paper, and brushes. Several techniques may be used with watercolors for varying effects including painting wet on wet, wet on dry, layering washes, and more.
Watercolor paper comes in cold press, hot press, and rough. Rough paper has the most texture, and its hills and valleys can result in interesting effects when paint is added. Hot press is the smoothest and has the finest texture. Cold press has a moderate amount of texture and is the paper most commonly chosen by watercolor artists.
Watercolor paper comes in several weights ranging from 90 lb. to 300 lb. based on the pounds per ream of paper. Most artists prefer to use at least 140 lb. paper. Papers vary somewhat between manufacturers, so sampling different papers is advisable. Paper can be purchased in pads, in blocks or in large sheets. The large sheets are usually the most economical and can be torn into whatever size is desired.