Staedtler Fineliner Pens have superfine metal clad tips, making them ideal for outlining and precision drawing work.
The visual diary is an essential companion for the artist as a place to sketch, write notes as you work and capture ideas - at The Learning Connexion the simple visual diary is a cornerstone of our student's creative journey.
These visual diaries with plain paper pages are perfect for everyday personal and classroom use, sketching, layouts and drafts - available with soft or hard covers, sized from A6 to A3 - we even sell one with black pages ...
Gum Arabic increases watercolor brilliancy, gloss, and transparency, giving greater depth to each color. It slows down the drying time of paint, and can also be used for controlling spread when painting wet-on-wet.
Masking fluid: Watercolor painting isn’t just about where you put your paint, but also where you don’t. Leaving some white space on your paper gives your paintings contrast, creates highlights and puts the snow on those mountaintops.
Gummed tape is an essential for stretching paper.
Watercolour paper is heavier weight than cartridge or copier paper, and is made with additives called "sizing" that allows it to absorb moisture. It remains flat, has an even color tone, and doesn't pill or tear. The grain on the surface allows the paint to spread and take on beautiful textures.
See our 'Painting Accessories' page for gummed tape if you want to stretch your paper.
Professional Acrylic is Winsor & Newton's finest quality acrylic paint range and represents a breakthrough in acrylic colour technology.
The unrivalled colour brilliance is evident straight out of the tube with:
Professional Acrylics have a longer working time on the palette without compromising the drying time, allowing artists to over paint within minutes and build up multiple layers during one painting session. The unique binder that is translucent when wet and dries clear ensures there is virtually no shift in colour at all and colours remain as brilliant when dry as they are when wet.
Round graphite pencil in lacquered envelope with high quality graphite lead in soft grades. Particularly suitable for artistic drawing, especially on large areas where strong marks are required.
This versatile medium is easier to control than its cousin, charcoal, which is messier, more delicate, and often rougher. And it offers a broader range of strokes than its wood-enclosed relative, the pencil.
There are many reasons to prefer one kind of stick over another, but in the end it comes down to the personal choice of each artist, and how the material fits in with how they work.
