Ledger Hammermill® White Pads. Acid Free. Smooth surface. Opaque white. For roughs to comprehensive layouts.Its fine surface and white opacity allows for exceptional results with all media, including felt tip markers. "Hammermill is a registered trademark of International Paper Company and is used by permission."
The Gel Excel Metallic Pens series is perfect for scrapbooks and memory books. The acid-free and non-toxic pens have smooth continuous flow gel ink and a soft rubberized grip for writing comfort. Works great on both light and dark colored paper.
Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastel Sets • Meets non-toxicity requirements • No use of tree-nut oils, soy, latex, wheat, oat, barley,animal oils or waxes, dairy, casein, or egg ingredients • Will not peel, crack or flake, and are easily blend-able • Oil paint effects, overlaying color, and a variety of effects can be experienced
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.
This pen features specially formulated ink and an advanced feed system ensuring consistent, skip-free marking from the first stroke to the last. The barrel is transparent allowing you to keep an eye on your ink supply.
Add metallic shine to paper crafts and journals and embellish any work of art! These metallic pens write smoothly with acid-free, flowing gel ink. The ink is permanent, waterproof and colorfast. Barrels feature latex-free comfort grip zones for hours of writing ease. These .8mm point pens are ideal for scrapbooking, card making and more.
Montval’ s natural whiteness and double sizing is well suited for all wet techniques, including watercolors, wash, gouache and acrylics. Pads feature micro-perforated sheets, giving a true sheet size. Acid-free, 140 lb. cold-pressed paper.
These affordable pastel sets are made from quality pigments, waxes and oils. Larger than standard oil pastel sticks, they measure 2-3/4" long by 7/16" round and are encased in paper sleeves for neatness. The vibrant colors maintain good lightfastness and blend easily. Formulated for smooth drawing and a wide range of effects, these colors are also suitable on many surfaces.
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.
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.