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Carnauba Wax Grey
Starting at: £8.40
Carnauba Wax is the hardest wax commonly used in the production of artists' materials, with a melting point of 83-86°c. It is derived from a tree native to South America, and is available in a natural colour (grey), or a refined colour (pale yellow). Small amounts of carnauba wax are commonly used in both oil painting mediums and encaustic painting, usually in conjunction with beeswax to add toughness, durability and sheen to the paint film. It creates an inflexible surface, so works best on rigid supports such as gesso panels, and it should be noted that it will raise the melting point of encaustic mixtures. It can produce a glossy finish; as such it is used in waxes and polishes for shoes, cars, musical instruments, furniture, and wooden floors, especially when mixed with beeswax and turpentine. Learn More -
Golden Fluid Acrylic 119ml
Starting at: £20.10
Equal the intensity of GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics but with an even, flowing characteristic useful for dry brush application, fine details, pouring, spraying, staining techniques and many others. Fluids are created by loading an acrylic polymer binder with concentrated levels of quality pigments for a wide selection of permanent and lightfast colors. No fillers or extenders are added to achieve the desired consistency, nor is the fluid quality achieved with additional water. GOLDEN Fluid Acrylics have the same pigment load as the Heavy Body Acrylics, but in a viscosity similar to heavy cream. *Please note, this range is stored offsite. Please allow extra time for your order to be processed and dispatched. Learn More -
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Roberson Pigment Binding Medium
Starting at: £10.70
Add Pigment Binding medium to dry or aqueously dispersed pigment to create acrylic colour. Learn More -
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Khadi White Rag Paper Packs 150gsm
Starting at: £2.85
Handmade Paper, 100% Long Fibred Cotton Rag, Acid free, Medium-Rough surface, Deckle Edged. All papers are internally sized with neutral pH size. Learn More -
Cerulean Blue Pigment
Starting at: £14.50
PB35
Cerulean Blue is an artificial mineral pigment that is prepared by heating a mixture of Cobalt Chloride and Potassium Stannate. It was first synthesised in the early nineteenth century, becoming more widely used from 1870, when Rowney introduced Coeruleum Blue into their range. It produces a very bright, clear, and unusually opaque blue, hence its name, which is derived from the Latin for "sky-blue", or perhaps "heaven-blue". It has a very low tinting strength meaning that, although it is stable in all media, some artists may choose to bind it in poppy rather than linseed oil, so that the colour isn't affected by the colour of the binder. It creates a fairly flexible paint film, and is a fast-to-medium drying pigment.
Limeproof
Toxicity: B
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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 -
W&N Professional Watercolour 37ml Tube
Starting at: £19.20
Water colour, more than any other medium, reflects the unique characteristics of the pigments used and our Professional Water Colours use only the finest pigments, and are known for their brilliance, permanence and strength of colour. Learn More
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Lyons Mezzotint Rockers
Starting at: £114.00
E C Lyons rockers are known world-wide as the finest mezzotint rockers available. They measure 17.75 cm (7 inches) at their total length, including the stained birch handles, and are made with the highest quality high-carbon tool-steel. The gauge (screen) sizes are available in 45 (coarse), 65 (medium), 85 (medium-fine), and 100 (fine) lines per inch. By working the rocker with a rocking motion over a copper or zinc plate evenly in a cross-hatched fashion, one creates burrs that will trap the ink to produce characteristically rich and velvety blacks, which can selectively be burnished away to produce delicate light areas and soft shading. Learn More -
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 -
Bleached Beeswax
Starting at: £12.30
Beeswax is derived from melted honeycomb, and is available in two grades. Bleached Beeswax Pellets are white, having been bleached by the sun, and are an appropriate choice for using with pale colours, although they may revert to yellow over time. Natural Beeswax Pellets are yellow in colour, and offer a more flexible structure with a higher resin content. Beeswax has a melting point of 63-66°c, and may turn brown if over-heated. It is the most widely used wax in artists' materials, having a wide range of applications. Please see below for more details.
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Cornelissen Canada Balsam
Starting at: £39.10
Canada Balsam is an oleoresin, meaning that it is a mixture of essential oils and resin. It comes from the fir tree Abies balsamea, native to Canada and the eastern states of North America. It is notable for its pale colour, clarity and gloss, making it a useful ingredient in recipes for oil-painting mediums.
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Pfeil Lino and Woodcut Tools
Starting at: £20.00
Exceptional quality Swiss made carving tools, suitable for either lino or wood cutting. Each tool is made from precisely ground stainless steel, with a classic mushroom hardwood handle. 70mm blade length, 125mm overall length. Learn More -
Pentel Aquash Empty Brush Pen
Starting at: £7.80
Fill with non-waterproof ink of your choice or fill with water for watercolour trips. Available in Fine, Medium and Broad tips. Learn More -
Roulette Medium Crossed Lines No1
£13.20Roulette Medium Crossed Lines Long handle 10x10 mm. #1 Learn More -
Synthetic Malachite Pigment
Starting at: £4.20
Synthetic Malachite is an artificial mineral pigment, copper carbonate, chemically based on Malachite. It has a medium tinting strength and good opacity. Larger sizes available on request Learn More -
Burnt Sienna Pigment
Starting at: £4.00
PBr7
Burnt Sienna is a natural earth pigment that has been in use since antiquity. Our Burnt Sienna comes from Tuscany, and is produced by calcining Raw Sienna to temperatures of about 450 degrees Celsius. This process creates a rich warm colour and increases transparency. It also offers a good tinting strength, excellent lightfastness, and a fast to medium drying rate in oil. It is stable in all media but, like umber pigments, may be difficult to disperse in acrylic binders.
Toxicity B
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Faber-Castell Pitt Oil Based Pencils
Starting at: £2.60
Faber-Castell Pitt Oil Based Pencils Learn More -
Schmincke Horadam Aquarell, Artists' Watercolour, 15 ml Tube
Starting at: £12.65
Finest quality watercolours made in Germany. This range offers 139 colours, including 95 single-pigment colours, 3 perylene pigments, 5 quinacridone pigments, and a selection of granulating colours. They present endless mixing possibilities, and can combined with Schmincke's selection of watercolour mediums as well as with their gouache paints. The solid colours are produced by pouring the liquid paint into the pans four times, ensuring the maximum yield for each colour. Also available in half and whole pans and 5ml tubes. Learn More -
Golden Fluid Acrylic 473ml
Starting at: £46.70
Equal the intensity of GOLDEN Heavy Body Acrylics but with an even, flowing characteristic useful for dry brush application, fine details, pouring, spraying, staining techniques and many others. Fluids are created by loading an acrylic polymer binder with concentrated levels of quality pigments for a wide selection of permanent and lightfast colors. No fillers or extenders are added to achieve the desired consistency, nor is the fluid quality achieved with additional water. GOLDEN Fluid Acrylics have the same pigment load as the Heavy Body Acrylics, but in a viscosity similar to heavy cream. *Please note, this range is stored offsite. Please allow extra time for your order to be processed and dispatched. Learn More -
Schmincke Norma Blue 35ml
Starting at: £8.15
Water-mixable (water miscible), highly pigmented, lightfast paints with a buttery consistency. Vegan, low odour, anti-allergenic, environmentally friendly. Learn More -
Cornelissen Historical Inks, Sir Isaac Newton Ink 30ml
£10.50Formulated to the exact recipe used by Isaac Newton, this ink is completely permanant, as his surving writings attest. Although composed of very similar ingredients to our Jane Austen Ink, we consider Newton's recipe to be superior, as Austen's has browned slightly over time. Initially a medium blue-grey, it darkens to a rich, matte back, which is slightly warmer in tone than our regular Oak Gall Ink. It is made in small batches and blended to give the required consistency and strength, and is fully waterproof in 5-7 days. Permanent and lightfast, it has been steeped for several weeks and left to ‘mature’ for several more in the bottle. When used on animal skins such as vellum, the acids in the Oak Gall Ink react with collagen, effectively ‘etching’ itself into the surface, hence its permanence.
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Lascaux Studio Acrylic Colours 250ml
Starting at: £25.70
Great quality acrylic paints ideal to use in silkscreen printing. Mix the colours undiluted to obtain the desired hue and then add the Lascaux Screenprinting Paste. It is advisable to experiment initially, to determine satisfactory working mixes. To find a satisfactory working ratio, it is useful to first print colours using a 50/50 mixture of undiluted colour to paste and to then shift the ratio depending on the results. *Please note, this range is stored offsite. Please allow extra time for your order to be processed and dispatched. Learn More -
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Oriental Blue Pigment
Starting at: £5.40
Oriental Blue Pigment (PB29). Inorganic pigment consisting kaolin, soda ash, sulfides and coal. Semi-transparent. High tinting strength. Excellent Lightfastness. Medium to slow drying rate. Suitable in all media except Lime-fresco. Used since early 19th Century. Toxicity B Learn More -
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Casein Lactic
Starting at: £15.95
Casein is a protein derived from dried milk, which has been used in painting since ancient times. It can be combined with Ammonium Carbonate to form an emulsion, which acts as a durable, non-resoluble binder for pigments, producing a matte, fast-drying paint, similar in appearance to egg tempera. We use casein as a binder for our L. Cornelissen & Son Pigment Colour Charts, as it is a medium that clearly showcases the characteristics and behaviour of each pigment in its pure form. Casein paints can be applied in thin layers to watercolour paper, but would require a more rigid support, such as a gesso panel, to be applied thickly, as the comparative inflexibility of the paint layer means that it can be prone to cracking. Subsequent layers of paint should be more diluted to aid adhesion, and impasto effects are not recommended. It is possible to varnish casein paintings using an acrylic or damar varnish to obtain a glossy surface if desired, although this is not a necessary step. Casein can also be used as an ingredient in gesso, and is a suitable binder for fresco secco techniques.
Some pigments may require a wetting agent in order to fully disperse within the binder, in which case alcohol may be used.
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