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French Chalk

Starting at: £5.50

French Chalk is a term commonly used to describe talcum powder and is also known as talc. This grade is very fine magnesium silicate It is sometimes used as a filler in pastels, to make soft sticks that produce velvety marks as it has a soapy like consistency.

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Precipitate Chalk

Starting at: £6.30

Precipitate Chalk is fine and white. For use in aqueous mediums as a ground for oil and tempera paintings. Learn More

Rohrer & Klingner Litho Chalk

Starting at: £17.40

Composed of wax, tallow and Syrian asphalt, the litho chalks feature high resistance against acids. To maintaine quality of the stone, they do not seal the pores of the stone surface. Available in six degrees of hardness with No. 0 being the softest, No. 5 the hardest, and No. 3 the most commonly applied. Learn More

Schmincke Horadam Naturals

Starting at: £13.00

Schmincke have combined the unique properties of gouache and watercolour paint in a unique formulation, to create Horadam Naturals. Made using natural earths, plant-based pigments and resins, the resulting high-quality watercolours are environmentally friendly and vegan. The 16 matte colours are semi-/transparent with good lightfastness and can be mixed and combined with all water and gouache colours. Learn More

Cretacolour Leads

Starting at: £8.95

Cretacolour Leads. 5mm leads for Cretacolour pencils. The 6 pack contains White chalk, Sanguine Oil, Sepia (Light and Dark), Charcoal Medium, and Graphite 4B Learn More

Rottenstone Grey

Starting at: £7.00

Fine abrasive powder used historically for polishing daguerreotype plates. Can be used to age wooden frames and object's d'art. Learn More

Marble Dust

Starting at: £4.70

Imparts textue when added to acrylic mediums and primers. Used in lime mortar. Meets paint pigment specificitions in its fine form. Mesh size: Course (Irregular granules), Medium (16) and Fine (100). Learn More

Plaster of Paris

Starting at: £5.50

For moulding when mixed with the same volume of water. Sets quickly and will not shrink. Learn More

Alumina Hydrate Light

Starting at: £8.30

Alumina Hydrate is an inert pigment with highly absorbent properties, which can be ground into oil paint as an almost colourless extender. It is often used as an additive in commercial oil paints, particularly in conjunction with transparent or lake pigments, as it provides stability and a homogenous consistency without effecting colour or gloss, although it may effect the pigment strength. When combined with linseed oil, it produces an almost transparent painting medium for extending oil colours. Sometimes referred to as Lake Base. Learn More

Rottenstone Pink

Starting at: £7.00

Fine abrasive powder used historically for polishing daguerreotype plates. Can be used to age wooden frames and object's d'art. Learn More

Pumice Powder

Starting at: £5.70

Volcanic rock in powdered form. Used to provide tooth to grounds. Learn More

Whiting

Starting at: £4.00

Whiting is powdered Calcium Carbonate, which can be mixed with rabbit skin glue to create a chalk-based ground for oil, tempera, distemper or encaustic painting. Traditionally, whiting was an important ingredient when preparing painting surfaces in the north of Europe, as opposed to gypsum (Calcium Sulphate), which was widely used south of the Alps. Learn More

Gypsum

Starting at: £5.70

Gypsum is powdered Calcium Sulphate, a traditional ingredient in gesso grounds used in southern Europe. One of the advantages of preparing your painting surface with gypsum is that it allows for a particularly even absorption of the paint film. It can also be added to acrylic primers to increase absorbency or add tooth to a surface. Learn More

Fumed Silica

Starting at: £13.60

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An inert substance with coarse texture and no colouring capability. Use in grounds and to provide tooth to mixed paints. Also used as an adulterant. Can be used for thickening acrylic and oil mediums. Learn More

Gesso di Bologna

Starting at: £12.00

Gesso di Bologna is a bright white Calcium Sulphate, or gypsum, from Italy, which can be used as a substitute for whiting in the preparation of gesso. It is ground to a particularly fine powder, which makes it a suitable ground for gilding, as the small size of the particles allows for greater compression when burnishing. Learn More

Fullers Earth

Starting at: £6.30

Fullers Earth is used to remove plant debris and other impurities from cold-pressed linseed oil, as its large particle size and unusual shape attracts unwanted matter and pulls it down, away from the surface of the oil. Our Fullers earth consist sly of Bentonite.

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STABILO CarbOthello Pastel Pencil Sets

Starting at: £23.50

STABILO CarbOthello is a chalk pastel coloured pencil range available in up to 60 colours. With its wonderfully dry and dusty stroke it is just like a chalk pastel in pencil format. It's very popular with artists, art students and people with creative hobbies. Its high pigmentation guarantees great luminosity and opacity as well as colour fastness and colour brilliance especially on dark backgrounds and delicate papers. What's more it can be sharpened to a very fine tip which make it ideal for detail. Colours can be dry mixed and blended which makes colouring more fun and special.

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Sinopia Clay Bole 4oz (approx. 118ml)

Starting at: £14.95

High quality clay bole for water-gilding techniques. Use over traditional chalk gesso ground. Bole needs to be applied with a solution of rabbit skin glue. This Bole is manufactured by Sinopia. The formula was developed by working with master gilders to craft a rich creamy bole that burnishes to a beautiful, highly reflective lustre.

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STABILO CarbOthello Pastel Pencils

Starting at: £1.95

STABILO CarbOthello is a chalk pastel coloured pencil range available in up to 60 colours. With its wonderfully dry and dusty stroke it is just like a chalk pastel in pencil format. It's very popular with artists, art students and people with creative hobbies. Its high pigmentation guarantees great luminosity and opacity as well as colour fastness and colour brilliance especially on dark backgrounds and delicate papers. What's more it can be sharpened to a very fine tip which make it ideal for detail. Colours can be dry mixed and blended which makes colouring more fun and special.

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ArtGraf Tailor Shape Set of 6

£41.50

Inspired by traditional tailor’s chalk block, prepared for drawing and painting. Water soluble and extremely soft, the set contains 6 traditional earth colours: sanguine, sepia, dark brown, brown, ochre and carbon black Learn More

ArtGraf Graphite Tailor shape

£6.60

Inspired by traditional tailor’s chalk block, prepared for drawing and painting. Water soluble and extremely soft. Learn More

Winsor & Newton Oil Primer

Starting at: £41.55

Ready to use primer. No thinning or stirring required. Accepts oil colours easily with no absorbency or chalkiness. Size with rabbit skin glue. Learn More

STABILO CarbOthello Pencil Sharpener

£2.80

The Stabilo CarbOthello Sharpener is a short cone sharpener with special blade especially designed for high quality coloured pencils like the Stabilo CarbOthello. The special blade will make sure that your pencil is correctly sharpened and won't split the chalk lead.

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Rotherhithe Orange Pigment

£20.00

This unique colour is an intense orange oxide that is made from the decay of Victorian pipes mixing with the chalk bed of the infilled docks at Rotherhithe, in south east London. Rotherhithe has a long history as a port, with many shipyards from Elizabethan times until the early 20th century and with working docks until the 1970s, when they began to be infilled due to a decline in imports to Central London. With a fine particle size and transparent quality this pigment would be great for glazing techniques.

Follow @londonpigment on Instagram for an insight into the stories behind the colours and how she makes them.

NOTE: many of these colours are made in extrmely limited batches so please email us at info@cornelissen.com for further infomation on what is currently availible.

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ArtGraf Traditional Tailor Shape Colours

Starting at: £6.60

Inspired by traditional tailor’s chalk block, prepared for drawing and painting. Water soluble and extremely soft, choice of 6 traditional earth colours: sanguine, sepia, dark brown, brown, ochre and carbon black. Learn More

Pre-Lim Metal Burnisher

Starting at: £9.85

A gently abrasive paste for non-scratch cleaning of metals and many sensitive fine-art surfaces. Learn More

Venetian Red Pigment

Starting at: £4.60

Venetian Red Pigment (PR101). Iron oxide and chalk. Semi-transparent and very lightfast. Stable in all media.

Limeproof

Toxicity: B

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Winsor & Newton Fixative

Starting at: £9.20

Vinyl resin/methylated spirit. Water white quick drying liquid which protects pictures from smudging and dirt accumulation. Dries to a low sheen. Fixes pastel, pencil and chalk drawings. Learn More

Renaissance Workshop Materials Brass Holder

£48.50

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Handmade brass holder for chalk or charcoal. Commonly used by artists in the Renaissance for drawing, the piece of sharpened chalk or charcoal is inserted into the end of the holder and secured in place by a sliding ring. Learn More

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