A lovely boss recently asked for gift ideas for a leaving staff member who “liked to draw”. She thought maybe a set of coloured pencils.
Since she hadn’t give a price range I chose 4 possible sets to suggest. Any of these would make a lovely gift, it just depends on how much you want to spend. Remember that artist quality pencils are of much higher quality than stationary shop pencils- they are pigment-rich and soft, not hard and waxy.
Derwent Coloursoft Pencils Set of 72 in a wooden box £94.95
Coloursoft Pencil Set
117524 Faber Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencil Set of 24 in a metal tin £31.70
Derwent Aqua Library Set of 24 Pencils (12 Derwent Watercolor and 12 Derwent Inktense) and Sketchbook £16.20
Derwent Magnetic Carton Set of 36 Pencils (24 Watercolour and 12 Graphitint) £21.60
We have over 50 coloured pencil sets if you want to have a look at others on our website.
Orders over £39 are free delivery, otherwise it is £3.95 for delivery.
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Caligo ‘Safe Wash’ Inks
NEW! Oil-based inks that are water washable!!
Caligo Inks
For printmakers interested in non-toxic printmaking, we are pleased to offer a new and innovative range of oil-based inks that can be washed away with liquid soap and water, without the need for harmful and often more expensive solvents. Caligo ‘Safe Wash’ Inks are available for both relief and intaglio printing. “Relief printing” includes the very popular lino printing and “intaglio” includes etching.
Caligo Safewash Printmaking Inks are now available at great prices at Jackson’s Art Supplies! We have a number of enthusiastic printmakers on staff who have wanted us to stock these inks for ages. We are very pleased to be dealing with a product of this quality. The oil base means that the colours are rich and the ink has a traditional surface that is recognisable as being oil. The water clean-up means no toxic and messy solvents in your home or studio, so it is environmentally friendly. The best of both worlds!
These inks are made in the UK. Caligo was recognised as the Welsh ‘Small Environmental Company of the Year’ for the development of their environmentally friendly Safe Wash Inks.
Caligo Safewash Relief Inks at Jackson’s
Caligo Safewash Etching Inks at Jackson’s
More info on the Caligo website.
The Printmaking Department at Jackson’s Art Supplies
Caligo Inks
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Wow! We have even more fantastic offers on Daler-Rowney art materials!
Daler Artists’ Watercolours are on offer at half RRP and
their superb Diana sable brushes are 60% off the RRP. This offer ends on August 9th.
Artists’ Watercolours are characterized by their rich, free-flowing colour, which leaves no hard lines at the edges of washes. Their unparalleled performance is a product of precise formulations based on the suspension of the very finest quality pigments in an aqueous solution of gum Arabic. Only the best pigments, regardless of cost, are used in the manufacture of Daler Artists’ Water Colours.
The Diana Kolinsky Sable brush range is created with the finest Kolinsky Sable hair and a short handle for a fine touch. A unique tapering process creates a full belly, a precise point and a high degree of spring. This is a superior watercolour brush! At this amazing price you can afford to treat yourself to a quality brush.
Daler Artists Watercolour
Daler Diana Sable Brush
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Daler-Rowney’s fantastic FW Artists’ Acrylic Inks will be even more popular now that they are on a 3 for 2 offer! Because it is 3 for 2 at Jackson’s already discounted prices it makes the single bottles (29.5ml glass bottles with dropper lids) only £2.80 each (RRP £4.95). That is 44% off the high street prices. The sets of 6 bottles come in Shimmering colours, Pearlescent colours, or Primary colours. The sets are also on offer at an additional 10% off our already discounted price. They are only £15.25 each (RRP 22.95). The offer runs until Aug 9th.
FW Artists Primary Colours Set
FW Artists’ Ink is an acrylic based pigmented water resistant ink (liquid acrylic) in a range of 30 colours, all of which have either a 3 or 4 star rating for permanence. Such a high degree of lightfastness over such a range of fully intermixable colours makes them ideal for use by artists in the production of pictures for permanent display. Strong bold applications of FW ink can be made where colour strength, expression and fluidity are required. Equally, however, colours can be substantially diluted to achieve the most subtle of tones, very similar in character to watercolour. Such washes will dry to a water resistant film and successive layers of colour can be laid over in a highly predictable manner. FW Artists’ inks work well through airbrushes and technical pens.
FW Pearlescent and Regular Inks
You might also like:
Pen and Ink books at Jackson’s.
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About watercolour papers:
“Papers with different sizing react differently in variable weather conditions. In damp conditions papers that are more absorbent (have less sizing) will dry more quickly, whereas hard-sized papers (with heavy sizing) will seem never to dry. Arches, a hard-sized paper, is better in drier conditions. Fabriano is a very absorbent paper that works well in a cold damp climate.”
- David Dewey
Also take into consideration when choosing a paper for watercolour- how you paint: fairly dry or very wet. And of course: how you want it to look- the paint skips over the ridges in rough paper and can puddle on hot pressed paper.
We will be making up a taster pack of watercolour papers to allow artists to try out a wide range of papers and determine which works best for them and the art they are making.
Any suggestions of which papers you would like to see included?
What is your favourite paper and why does it work so well for you?
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