Turn your quick pencil sketches into watercolor paintings with the stroke of a wet brush. These pencils can be used dry or wet to create beautiful colorful effects.
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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.
This complete set contains everything beginners need to achieve success in drawing. The set includes a 24-page full-color instruction booklet, four graphite pencils (2H, HB, 2B and 6B), two charcoal pencils (medium and soft), a blending stump, a dust-free vinyl eraser, a pencil sharpener, a paper drawing pad and a handy storage tray. The pencils are strong, break-resistant and bonded with epoxy resin to prevent leads from falling out. The instruction book provides hours of enjoyable instruction.
Cray-Pas Specialist oil pastels feature vivid color intensity and luminosity and have been developed to meet the demanding performance standards of the professional artist. Excellent overall lightfastness, a smooth and soft body texture and balanced color range make these pastels a versatile, dynamic medium with virtually unlimited uses.
Sargent Art Washable Glue has a advanced formula that bonds to almost any surface and can wash from most fabrics. Sargent Art Washable Glue dries quickly to a water resistant finish.
Professional quality, long handled, natural bristle brushes for oil and acrylics. These brushes feature interlocked hairs for resilience and control, and flagged tips for increased color carrying capacity. The soft, beautiful bristles are secured to the rich, natural wood finish handles with attractive copper ferrules.
Professional quality natural hog bristle for oils & acrylics. Featuring interlocked hairs for resilience and control, and flagged tips for increased color carrying capacity. Richly distinctive marbleized green hardwood handles.
Turpenoid Odorless turpentine. The world's favorite turpentine for over 50 years. The safest odorless mineral sprite available anywhere with a permitted exposure limit of 500 ppm over an 8 hour period. Almost twice as safe as the nearest competitor. Turpenoid has the same painting properties and drying time as turpentine but is free from the strong characteristic turpentine odor. Compatible with oil colors as a painting vehicle either alone or in mediums. Turpenoid is also excellent as a solvent or brush cleaner.
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.