This complete kit for beginners features a 32-page step-by-step project book that covers materials and techniques. It also includes twenty watercolor pencils, a pencil sharpener, two paint brushes and paper.
These soft fine art pencils offer smooth creamy laydown and brilliant color. The thick 4mm core is embedded in a round wood casing and finished with a colored end to match the lead color. These pencils offer plenty of useable color, sharpen smoothly to a fine point and maintain the point without breaking. All colors blend and layer easily, resist bloom and have superior lightfastness.
Coloursoft fine art pencils deliver a smooth creamy laydown and offer superior blending and layering without bloom. Their thick 4mm leads offer plenty of useable color and hold a point without breaking. They are offered in a variety of sets to meet artists’ specific needs; from basic to comprehensive color collections.
Derwent Sketching Pencil Sets. These value-priced sets feature a range of mixed sketching media– ideal for beginners and students. The 12-Piece set includes: three water-soluble sketching pencils, three graphic blocks, three charcoal blocks, a charcoal pencil, a white pastel pencil and a terra-cotta drawing pencil. The 24-Piece set includes all of the above, plus: two additional charcoal pencils, two pastel pencils, a drawing pencil, a Graphitone pencil, two graphic pencils, a graphic block, a charcoal block, a kneaded eraser and a sharpener. The 36-Piece set includes everything in the 24-Piece set, plus: an additional drawing pencil, two Graphitone pencils, two graphic pencils, two graphic blocks, two charcoal blocks, a plastic eraser, a stump and a sand block. Each set comes packaged in a durable tin.
Derwent Pastel Pencil Sets. Pastel beauty with pencil control. Nothing beats the colourful brilliance of pastels but they’re not the easiest medium to use. Now you can enjoy all the beauty of pastel in a convenient, non-messy form. These woodcased Pastel Pencils have a soft, powdery texture which produces a velvety smooth finish, ideal for mixing and blending. And because they’re pencils, they’re clean and easy to control – although you may not be able to resist the occasional smudge with your finger!
Sharpie Silver Metallic Markers. To get optimal performance from your Sharpie Metallic marker, the tip, as indicated on the barrel, must be stored downward. Since these markers contain tiny metallic flecks that make up more than ten percent of Sharpie Metallic ink, tip down storage allows these flecks to travel down to the tip, giving the user a vibrant, shiny mark on dark and light surfaces. For other metallic markers to achieve a similar high quality metallic mark, a valve-action ink system is required to keep the metallic flecks from settling or clogging within the marker. The benefit of using Sharpie Metallic markers is that tip down storage is the only requirement to keep the metallic flecks free flowing and there is considerably more control over the ink flow to the paper versus valve-action markers.
Sheaffer has been a world leader in manufacturing quality calligraphy products for many years. This Sheaffer Calligraphy Classic Maxi Kit makes it easy for the entry level calligrapher to develop basic skills with comfortable, easy-to-use tools and supplies, while also addressing the distinctive needs of more advanced calligraphers. Sheaffer's Viewpoint® Calligraphy pen features a wide profile and rubberized color-coded grip for writing comfort. The Viewpoint barrel has a window on each side to allow for monitoring of the cartridge ink supply.
Sakura Pigma Micron Pens. When accuracy, minute details, and preservation count, the unparalleled archival quality of Pigma Micron pens makes them everyone's first choice. Artist, writers, and illustrators reach for Pigma Micron to convey their personality, style, or feelings, and to safeguard their work with the lasting quality of Pigma ink. The first disposable technical pen using archival pigmented ink, Pigma Micron ink pen is selected for fine-point technical and artistic applications requiring top quality capabilities.
Sakura Color Products invented and patented PIGMA® ink over twenty-five years ago. A formulation of pigment based inks, more complex and stable than dye based inks, PIGMA® ink has become the standard for what is defined as reliable, permanent, archival quality ink.
Sharpie Paint Markers. Use these paint markers on virtually any surface: metal, pottery, wood, rubber, glass, plastic, stone and more. Permanent oil-based opaque color paint marker. Marks opaque and glossy on light or dark surfaces. Quick-drying paint resistant to water, fading and abrasion. 15 bold colors. AP Certified and Xylene free.
Prismacolor Art Markers. Artists' quality art markers for every level of expertise. Advanced ink formulations provide rich color saturation with smooth, silky ink flow and coverage. Impressive color laydown. Different line widths available with each double ended art marker. Alcohol, dye-based ink. Single ink reservoir for a perfect color match end to end. Ideal for both technical and artistic applications. AP Non Toxic
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.