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.
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.
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.
Prismacolor Scholar Pencils. Color art pencils for developing artists. Prismacolor scholar is designed for students who are serious about their art Like Prismacolor, the colors are specially formulated to provide for smooth laydown and blend ability. Prismacolor Scholar is made to different specifications to deliver a harder lead and more resistant to breakage.
Drawing and Sketching Complete Drawing Kit by Reeves is a complete art kit for beginners. This drawing and sketching kit contains everything a beginner needs to get started drawing, including 10 colored pencils, 4 sketching pencils, 1 solid graphite pencil, 1 long blending stump, 1 short blending stump, 1 sandpaper block, 1 eraser, 1 sharpener, and a 25-page sketch pad. The Complete drawing kit makes it easy to get started right away. Reeves is a trusted name in art supplies, known for high quality standards.
Reeves Sketching Pencil Sets. Reeves Sketching Pencils are a range of high quality graphite lead pencils, ideal for artistic drawing and sketching. The wide range of lead softness allows for a huge array of different shading effects and techniques. The strong leads will not easily break when sharpened and last longer under heavy marking and drawing pressure. Sets of 6 and 12 sketching pencils.
Fine quality pencils in precisely differentiated degrees. Ideal for drawing, writing and drafting. The high-quality lead will not crumble or create dust, and has excellent reproduction qualities. It is bonded to California cedar over the entire length of the pencil, ensuring that any breakage is checked at the point. Each pencil features a dark blue polished finish with a black cap and white ring. The set of six includes one each EE, EB, 6B, 4B, 2B and HB. The sets of twelve include one each 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H, 7H, 8H and 9H.
Kimberly Graphite Pencils are available in sets of six in either soft degrees for dark, rich lines, or in medium degrees for more versatile drawing. Both sets include a sharpener and a bonus layout pencil.
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.
Photographic materials have complex physical and chemical structures that present special preservation challenges to the librarian and archivist. Since the birth of photography in the late 1830s, many different photographic processes and materials have been utilized, each subject to deterioration through time and with use. Although deterioration is an ongoing natural process, nevertheless much can be done to slow the rate at which it takes place in photographs.
Deteriorated photographs may require specialized conservation treatment by a professional photograph conservator, often a costly, skill-demanding, and time-consuming procedure. For the majority of photographs in research collections, single-item conservation of deteriorated photographs is probably not a feasible or a cost-effective preservation solution. Instead, preventive conservation actions such as maintenance of a good environment, promoting proper care and handling through staff and user education, and the use of good quality storage housings will have a more lasting, positive impact on the preservation of a collection.
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.
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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.
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.
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. 
Royal Langnickel Advanced Sketching Tin. Advanced sketching tin includes 
Prismacolor Scholar Pencils. Color art pencils for developing artists. Prismacolor scholar is designed for students who are serious about their art Like Prismacolor, the colors are specially formulated to provide for smooth laydown and blend ability. Prismacolor Scholar is made to different specifications to deliver a harder lead and more resistant to breakage. 
Drawing and Sketching Complete Drawing Kit by Reeves is a complete art kit for beginners. This drawing and sketching kit contains everything a beginner needs to get started drawing, including 10 colored pencils, 4 sketching pencils, 1 solid graphite pencil, 1 long blending stump, 1 short blending stump, 1 sandpaper block, 1 
Reeves Sketching Pencil Sets. Reeves Sketching Pencils are a range of high quality graphite lead pencils, ideal for artistic drawing and sketching. The wide range of lead softness allows for a huge array of different shading effects and techniques. The strong leads will not easily break when sharpened and last longer under heavy marking and drawing pressure. Sets of 6 and 12 sketching pencils. 
Fine quality pencils in precisely differentiated degrees. Ideal for drawing, writing and drafting. The high-quality lead will not crumble or create dust, and has excellent reproduction qualities. It is bonded to California cedar over the entire length of the pencil, ensuring that any breakage is checked at the point. Each pencil features a dark blue polished finish with a black cap and white ring. The set of six includes one each EE, EB, 6B, 4B, 2B and HB. The sets of twelve include one each 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H, 7H, 8H and 9H.
Kimberly Graphite Pencils are available in sets of six in either soft degrees for dark, rich lines, or in medium degrees for more versatile drawing. Both sets include a sharpener and a bonus layout pencil.
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.
Watercolor is an easy, fun medium for creating art. Color theory, composition and design can be explored freely with