Reeves Acrylic Painting Sets are perfect for beginners and value conscious artists alike, these sets contain a variety of brilliant colors. Straight from the tube these acrylics have the feel and response of oil colors, but may be thinned with water to produce watercolor-like effects. They are quick-drying, water-based, made from high quality pigments and are suitable for a variety of surfaces and techniques. AP non-toxic.
Liquitex Glossies are water based acrylic enamels that are specially formulated to adhere to slick, non-porous materials such as: glass, tiles, glazed ceramics, stoneware, china, enamelware, primed metal, wood and other non-oily surfaces.
The quality of the Amsterdam line is now available in an excellent assortment of acrylic colors. Available in 24 colors with 25% more paint than other competitive acrylic lines.
Liquitex Soft Body Artist Color, previously referred to as Medium Viscosity, was the original Liquitex acrylic formulation first made in 1956. An extremely versatile artist paint, creamy and smooth with a concentrated pigment load producing intense, pure color. The creamy smooth, pre-filtered consistency ensures good coverage, even-leveling and superb results in a variety of applications and techniques.
Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Color, previously referred to as High Viscosity, has a thick consistency for traditional art techniques using brushes or knives, as well as for experimental, mixed media, collage and printmaking applications. Impasto applications retain crisp brush stroke and knife marks. Good surface drag provides excellent handling and blending characteristics with increased open-working time. High pigment load produces rich, brilliant, permanent color.
Designed especially for people who love to paint. Featuring near-professional quality at a price that beginners, students and the budget-conscious can easily afford, Grumbacher Academy Oil Colors are more than just a brand. Academy stands for quality that inspires at a price that opens the path of painting to everyone.
Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colors owes its reputation for supreme quality to the careful selection of the very finest pigments.
By exercising maximum quality control throughout all stages of manufacture, selecting the most suitable drying oils and method of pigment dispersion, the unique individual qualities of the colours are preserved. To produce colours of reliable consistency and a high standard of colour matching demands a combination of the traditional crafts of the artists’ colourmen and modern colour technology skills.
The 120 colors in this range each contain the maximum pigment content consistent with good handling qualities, and so achieve the optimum tinting strength when reduced with white.
The Winsor & Newton range of Artists’ Oil Color is unmatched for purity, quality and reliability, a success which is reflected in its worldwide reputation amongst professional artists
M. Graham Oils have color ground in walnut oil which provides rich, vibrant color with greater freedom of control over all types of painting application. Free flowing and slower drying, walnut oil enables delicate passages of finely blended color, rich jewel-like glazes or juicy full brush application with no addition of solvents. Because of walnut oil's unique refractive index and non-yellowing nature, colors ground in this fine oil are naturally more alive and brilliant. They retain their clarity and are free from the discoloration associated with other drying oils.
Winton Oil Colors have been developed to provide the highest quality oil paint colors at an affordable price. The application of traditional skills and modern color chemistry techniques has resulted in a range of 49 carefully selected Winton Oil Colors. This has been achieved by replacing some of the more costly traditional pigments with excellent modern alternatives that give high quality at an economical price.
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.
Photography is an amazing art form. A photograph album is a catalogue of life's history as seen through the camera. People, animals, nature, holidays, celebrations and even disasters are captured instantly and recorded as part of history. It is through the powerful presentations of photography that we better understand the progression of time and life. Hampton Photo Arts has over twenty years of experience working with photographers as they seek to capture and preserve the history of families and communities.
When families get together, both children and adults love to look through photograph albums. They enjoy seeing the childhood photos of older family members and compare themselves to ancestors who lived a hundred or more years ago. Photos are among the most important treasures of every family. They should not be faded and dull. They contain the smiles, tears and emotions of generations. The staff members at Hampton Photo Arts display excellence in the art of photography reproduction. They work with the highest quality materials. They know how to create family memories that will be just as beautiful one hundred years from now as they are today.
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.