These popular sets are packed full of content and include everything to create your painting - from pencils to sketch out your design on your painting board through to a Platte for mixing your paint colours in. These sets even include Reeves painting guides to provide you with guidance for your first masterpiece!
We have designed these sets so the beginner artist has all the basic materials necessary to start your journey into art.
Each set contains approx 20-30 pieces. These also make a great gift.
M. Graham has created a watercolor with exceptional amounts of pigment in an old fashioned binding medium of pure gum arabic and natural blackberry honey. The result is watercolor of extraordinary strength that is easily diluted for smooth, controlled washes and deeper "darks". Alive with strength and intensity, watercolor made with honey absorbs moisture from the air, preventing hardening on the palette or in the tube.
Various materials for pastel drawing are contained in these sets. Each features mixed pastel materials and selected accessories secured in a vivid attractive tin with a removable lid. The design of these kits makes them convenient to bring along anywhere. The 12 piece set includes six pastel blocks, five pastel pencils and a water-soluble sketching HB. The same contents are contained in the 24 piece set with an additional two pastel blocks, eight pastel pencils, a kneaded putty eraser and a pastel pencil sharpener. The 38 pieces set includes the same materials as the 24 piece set plus six pastel blocks, five pastel pencils, a paper stump, a plastic eraser and a sandpaper block.
Grumbacher acrylic paints follow a chain of artistic evolution. More technologically advanced than the earliest versions of acrylic, Grumbacher colors consist of artist quality pigments uniformly dispersed in an aquaeous acrylic emulsion. The binding vehicle consists of droplets of an acrylic resin suspended in water. As the water evaporates, the droplets of resin combine to form a crystal clear film. This film imparts an exceptional luminosity and vibrancy to the colors. Grumbacher acrylics provide the artist with a versatile option for painting and crafting. Thinned with water, the paint can be applied in delicate, translucent layers much like watercolor. Straight from the tube, or thickened with a medium, these colors can be applied to a canvas with the same techniques used for oil color. Grumbacher arcylics can be applied to a number of surfaces and are ideal for the student as well as more advanced artists.
Beginners will appreciate this economical set that incorporate the necessary tools for exploring oil painting. This deluxe set offers fourteen 12ml tubes of oil color, one HB pencil, a double sharpener, a putty rubber, two ponybrushes and a mixing palette, all conveniently organized in an attractive and durable wooden box. The Superior 26-color set offers an even more complete selection, including all the same contents of the 14-color set plus a B pencil and two additional hog brushes.
Artists can create luminous watercolor paintings with Reeves Watercolors. They come in tubes for use in the studio but can also be squeezed onto a palette and left to dry to create watercolor pans for travel. Perfect for beginners and value conscious artists alike, these sets contain 12ml tubes of watercolors in a variety of brilliant colors.
Permalba White Oil Paint is the artists white oil paint because many find that it is a wonderful foundation white. Permalba White is a white paint that includes not only Titanium white but Zinc white. This combination gives the color a richness that is unusual for whites.
This environmentally friendly paper is ideal for quick renderings and practicing techniques. The lightly textured surface works well with any dry media. Micro-perforated for easy sheet removal.
The Vision Elite’s airplane safe technology will take the pressure out of flying. It features a stainless steel tip with carbide ball and free ink device that smoothly delivers fade-proof, waterproof ink.
This complete water mixable oil color set by Reeves includes everything needed for aspiring artists to create genuine oil paintings without the hassle of using solvents. The water mixable oil colors in this set feature a high level of pigmentation, smooth bodied consistency and good lightfastness. The set includes six 12ml tubes, 12 water-soluble wax pastels, a sketching pencil, three brushes, a mixing palette, a painting knife, a sharpener, eraser, three painting boards and instruction leaflet.
Canson Student Drawing Pads. If you're working on technique in charcoal, pastel, pencil, pen - even light wash, this is an excellent place to start. Bright white, medium tooth acid-free paper is slightly lighter weight (70 lb.) than you'll find in Canson premium pads. Available wire bound with micro-perforated sheets for clean removal
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.
Art Supplies 
These popular sets are packed full of content and include everything to create your painting - from pencils to sketch out your design on your painting board through to a Platte for mixing your paint colours in. These sets even include Reeves painting guides to provide you with guidance for your first masterpiece!
Various materials for pastel drawing are contained in these sets. Each features mixed pastel materials and selected accessories secured in a vivid attractive tin with a removable lid. The design of these kits makes them convenient to bring along anywhere. The 12 piece set includes six pastel blocks, five pastel pencils and a water-soluble sketching HB. The same contents are contained in the 24 piece set with an additional two pastel blocks, eight pastel pencils, a kneaded putty eraser and a pastel pencil sharpener. The 38 pieces set includes the same materials as the 24 piece set plus six pastel blocks, five pastel pencils, a paper stump, a plastic eraser and a sandpaper block.
Grumbacher acrylic paints follow a chain of artistic evolution. More technologically advanced than the earliest versions of acrylic, Grumbacher colors consist of artist quality pigments uniformly dispersed in an aquaeous acrylic emulsion. The binding vehicle consists of droplets of an acrylic resin suspended in water. As the water evaporates, the droplets of resin combine to form a crystal clear film. This film imparts an exceptional luminosity and vibrancy to the colors. Grumbacher acrylics provide the artist with a versatile option for painting and crafting. Thinned with water, the paint can be applied in delicate, translucent layers much like watercolor. Straight from the tube, or thickened with a medium, these colors can be applied to a canvas with the same techniques used for oil color. Grumbacher arcylics can be applied to a number of surfaces and are ideal for the student as well as more advanced artists. 
This environmentally friendly paper is ideal for quick renderings and practicing techniques. The lightly textured surface works well with any dry media. Micro-perforated for easy sheet removal. 
The Vision Elite’s airplane safe technology will take the pressure out of flying. It features a stainless steel tip with carbide ball and free ink device that smoothly delivers fade-proof, waterproof ink. 
Canson Student Drawing Pads. If you're working on technique in 