Fredrix Red Label Canvas features superior quality medium textured, duck canvas. It is double-primed with acid-free acrylic gesso for use with oil or acrylic painting. The canvas is stapled onto the back of standard stretcher bars. Paint on all four edges and hang it with or without a frame. All sizes larger than 24" x 36" include single or double bracing for added support
Bound in a beautiful linen book cloth cover, these journals offer watercolorists a practical option for travel painting. Each book includes 30 sheets (60 pages) of a soft white, 200 gsm acid-free paper with a cold press finish that is the same on each side of the sheet. They have a durable elastic closure and a clear envelope on the inside back cover.
Canson Biggie Newsprint Pads. If you're a student - or anyone who makes preliminary sketches in pencil or charcoal - you'll find these rough-textured 32 lb. newsprint sketch pads indispensable.
This paper is made with 100% wind power – a pollution free, renewable energy resource – perfect for the environmentally conscientious consumer. It is natural white, 140lb. cold press paper that is suitable for all wet media techniques using watercolor, gouache and acrylic. Acid-free with good wash and lifting properties, it is ideal for artists mastering watercolor techniques and for accomplished artists. The pads have 15 wire-bound sheets.
Strathmore Art Student Drawing Pads are recommended for drawings and sketches, this heavyweight white drawing paper is ideal for final artwork using pencil, pen and ink, charcoal and markers.
Economical, acid-free sketch books that are ideal for sketching, drawing, writing and other dry media. Each hard-bound book contains 110 sheets of 65 lb. bright white paper and has traditional binding. The double wire spiral-bound books have 80 sheets each that are micro-perforated for easy removal.
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
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.
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.
Contrary to the old phrase that “oil and water don’t mix,” linseed oil can indeed be made to accept water as a solvent. The resulting mix is called an “emulsion,” a balanced mixture of substances that don’t normally combine. And it’s been done for thousands of years with egg and water, wax and water, and, yes, oil and water. The mixture can be accomplished through mechanical means or by a chemical modification. Winsor & Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oil Colour is a genuine oil colour made from modified linseed oil and modified safflower oil. A range of unique mediums have been formulated to allow the artist to achieve all the traditional oil colour techniques, without requiring turpentine or mineral spirits.
Large diameter pastel pencils with very fine, smooth colored leads that are strong and easily blendable. Work well on a wide range of papers. The abrasives in the pencils provide excellent toning and stumping qualities.
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.