We know from working inside a School of Art & Creativity what should get your creative juices flowing ...at a decent price.
The 'student' grade of oil paint from Dalery Rowney, Georgian Oil Colours provide colour consistency from wet to dry and even performance and finish across all colours.
Georgian quality oils, produced at a uniform and economical price, include organic and modern pigments. Perfect for student and serious painters alike. Manufactured for precise colour and perfect tint and texture matching. Very buttery.
The traditional brick red colour of the hard pastel ( Conté) is the closest modern equivalent to the red chalk the Old Masters used in Europe during medieval times - and today we can see why with this excellent sketching material.
Conté sticks or Conté crayons, are composed of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base, square in cross-section.
Good all-purpose synthetic student art brushes suitable for use with acrylics and water colours.
Available in a range of sizes from small (00) to large (18).
To keep your brushes in perfect condition we recommend cleaning them with 'Incredible Brush Cleaner' - it really is incredible!
Synthetic hair filaments are an excellent alternative to natural hair, ideal for Water Colour, Acrylic and Gouache Paints as well as mixed media. Bristle types include Angle, Dagger, Fan, Filbert, Long Flat, Long Liner, Round, Short Liner and Short Flat.
We sell a well priced Jasart brush set that is an excellent place to start - try them all out and find your favourites.
To keep your brushes in perfect condition we recommend cleaning them with 'Incredible Brush Cleaner' - it really is incredible!
In most creative fields, it's impossible to get away from one important tool—a pencil.
It doesn't matter if you're an illustrator, a professional fine artist, a jeweller or whether you're just learning to draw, a graphite pencil is an essential part of any artist's supplies.
Marabu Graphix Aqua Pens are available in pre-sorted colour sets so that you easily find the right shades to express your ideas properly.
They come in brilliant colours thanks to high-quality, low-odour water-based ink. They have double tips - a contour tip at one end and a flexible brush tip at the other.
These versatile crayons have a soft, slightly oily quality that makes them the perfect tool for blending. Made from pigment mixed with a non-drying oil and wax binder, oil pastels can be used on canvas, paper, wood and even glass.
You can use oil pastels on top of acrylic paint, but please remember that you can't paint acrylic paint on top of the oil pastel (you can paint oil paint on top of oil pastel, however).
Mediums, oils and varnishes for altering the handling characteristics of your oil colours. Traditionally Turpentine and Linseed Oil have been added to thin the oil paint, moving progressively from the 'lean' layers (more turpentine) to the 'fat' layers (more linseed oil).
Liquin is a very popular soy oil based alkyd medium. It speeds up the drying time somewhat and creates a very stable paint layer which can become shiny - but this can be resolved with a varnish when your painting is finished and fully dry.
