The unique synthetic hairs of these brushes provide the stiffness of a natural bristle and will maintain those qualities when used with water-based acrylics. They are professional quality brushes with excellent snap and hair shape retention for maximum control. Each features a seamless metal ferrule and a long varnished wood handle.
Winsor & Newton Artists' Painting Medium thins the consistency of oil colors and dries to a flexible film that has minimum tendency to yellow, wrinkle or crack.
Sheaffer has been a world leader in manufacturing quality calligraphy products for many years. This Sheaffer Calligraphy Classic Maxi Kit makes it easy for the entry level calligrapher to develop basic skills with comfortable, easy-to-use tools and supplies, while also addressing the distinctive needs of more advanced calligraphers. Sheaffer's Viewpoint® Calligraphy pen features a wide profile and rubberized color-coded grip for writing comfort. The Viewpoint barrel has a window on each side to allow for monitoring of the cartridge ink supply.
Das is a perfect way to introduce children to natural earth clays. It is a very smooth and refined clay packaged in a special container brick that keeps the clay perfectly moist until opened. Pronto is pure white
General's Sketchmate Drawing Set. A great kit that puts hard to find items all together in a reusable bag. The kit has five graphite drawing pencils and two charcoal pencils in various degrees, a white eraser, a blending tortillon and a metal sharpener.
Prismacolor Art Markers. Artists' quality art markers for every level of expertise. Advanced ink formulations provide rich color saturation with smooth, silky ink flow and coverage. Impressive color laydown. Different line widths available with each double ended art marker. Alcohol, dye-based ink. Single ink reservoir for a perfect color match end to end. Ideal for both technical and artistic applications. AP Non Toxic
Fine quality drawing pencils measured by the toughest, stringent standards. With consistent grading, strong opacity, clean erasability and precise line definition. Berol uses modern production techniques and old-fashioned materials such as the clear, aromatic California cedar that is used to encase every quality tested lead. Eraser-less, hexagon-shaped, turquoise blue finish with silver tip.
Winsor & Newton Refined Linseed Oil is our most popular oil offers many of the same qualities as Cold Pressed Linseed Oil, but is slower drying. It is an alkali-refined oil of pale color that reduces oil color consistency and increases gloss and transparency.
Derwent Graphic Pencil Sets. This is where good drawing starts. Whatever your drawing style or media preference, you’ll need some traditional, high quality graphite pencils – and you won’t find a better range than Derwent Graphic. This high quality pencil is produced in a fantastic choice of 20 degrees, from a crisp, non-scratchy 9H to a soft, smudgy 9B. The hexagonal barrel is easy to hold and the pencil sharpens to a good point to cover all your drawing and sketching needs. All the degrees are available individually or in specially selected sets.
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.