This popular eraser kneads easily into any shape, erases cleanly, and picks up all residue. It's excellent for removing or highlighting pencil, chalk, charcoal, and pastel.
Factis Extra Soft Eraser is one of the softest art erasers made. The white vinyl construction is perfect for charcoal, graphite or pastels. Suitable for use on rough watercolor paper.
These extra large compressed charcoal sticks are rich, smooth and very black. The set includes three sticks, one each of soft, medium and hard densities.
Created to meet artists’ demands for a comprehensive charcoal set, this new set includes charcoal pencils, compressed charcoal, white charcoal and more. It covers basic essentials for most drawing course work and applies to novice applications as well. The All Charcoal Kit contains one 558 CharcoalWhite pencil for highlighting and contrast work. Also included are five Charcoal pencils each with a round cedar casing (one each 557-HB, 557-2B, 557-4B and two each 557-6B). There are compressed charcoal sticks (one each 960 and 958 and two each 957-6B and 957-4B) for creating deep dark tones and covering large areas. Plus, an artist pencil sharpener, a kneaded eraser and a Carbon Sketch pencil.
Prismacolor Water Soluble Graphite Pencils. These professional grade water-soluble graphite pencils offer the capabilities of line drawing with the tonal qualities of a wash. They work beautifully in conjunction with graphite, charcoal, or watercolors.
Derwent Drawing Pencil Sets. Perfect for nature studies, landscapes, seascapes and wildlife drawing as well as traditional portraits in the styles of the old masters, these traditional round artists’ pencils come in a range of intense colors. The soft and creamy texture of the extra-thick color lead allows blending to achieve a variety of colors and tones. The easy-to-apply waxy consistency produces a smooth velvety finish on paper, and the extra wide 5mm color strip is ideal for blending. The 6-Pencil Tin contains six drawing pencils and a sharpener. The 12- and 24-Collection Tins contain drawing pencils, sticks and various drawing accessories.
General's Sketchmate Drawing Set. A great kit that puts hard to find items all together in a reusable bag. The kit has five graphite drawing pencils and two charcoal pencils in various degrees, a white eraser, a blending tortillon and a metal sharpener.
General's Drawing Pencil Set No. 20. A drawing kit containing ten Pastel Chalk pencils, four charcoal pencils, a Charcoal White pencil, two Flat Sketching pencils, one Layout pencil, one Kimberly drawing pencil, a Sketch & Wash pencil, plus a kneaded eraser and an all-metal pencil sharpener.
General's Drawing Pencil Set No. 10. Twelve-piece drawing assortment containing: two Flat Sketching pencils, three charcoal pencils, one Layout pencil, one 6B Kimberly pencil, one Sketch & Wash graphite pencil, one rectangular and two square graphite sticks and one Charcoal White pencil.
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.