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June 27th, 2009
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Tombow Dual Brush PensTombow Dual Brush Pens offers a complete palette of colors with flexible brush tip and fine tip in one marker. Brush tip works like a paintbrush to create fine, medium or bold strokes; fine tip gives consistent lines. The Tombow pen is water-based, non-toxic, acid-free, and odorless.

Jacquard Textile Colors are a medium consistency fabric paint that delivers great value for your money. These colors leave your fabric as soft as possible. The color is intense and semi-opaque. This product is absolutely colorfast on natural or synthetic fabrics when heat-set by ironing on the opposite side of the fabric.

Amsterdam Acrylic Paint is a 100% acrylic resin. This ensures the exceptional durability of the paint film and also makes it the best choice for outdoor murals. It can be painted on any grease free surface: paper, card, wood, hardboard, concrete, chipboard, plaster, etc. Amsterdam Acrylics have a slightly thin consistency and errors are easily corrected. For this reason they are also good for transparent techniques. They are easy to dilute with water and their high quality pigments give them a high level of lightfastness.

Conte Pastel Pencils provide the same classic functionality of the original Conte Crayon in a larger diameter pencil, stiffened with plasticizer allowing it to hold fine detailed strokes.

ImageLoew Cornell Color Pencil Sets. Loew Cornell is producing a quality color pencil aimed towards the class and student market. It’s smooth and quality wax based lead allows you to experience the fun of color without the normal frustration of lower quality student pencils.

Itoya Evolution Art Profolio With a stylish nylon stitching and value price, the Art Profolio® Evolution™ from ITOYA is the next big thing in art and photo storage. Along with its sibling, the Original Art Profolio, the Art Profolio Evolution is the only storage and presentation book of its kind. Completely, acid-free and PH-neutral through its polypropylene, PVC-free construction and quality crafted, acid-free black mounting paper, the Art Profolio Evolution is archival safe for all your art storage needs.

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Canvas Printing

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.

 
Art Prints – How are they made?

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Photography by Laurie Barone-Shafer
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).
 
Learning to Paint Watercolors

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.
 
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