Talking about art, techniques and materials.
Posted in Art Technique -Technical on Jun 30th, 2010
This recipe on the Empty Easel website is similar to one of the oil painting mediums I use, the one I use most often. A bit dripped into the colour on the palette mixes in to thin it to a better painting consistency and it seems to even out the drying times of all the [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Jun 28th, 2010
As part of our enormous selection of books at Jackson’s we have a department of art history and theory books. This collection of around 50 books includes books that examine a period of art, a particular art medium, specific artists, or a type of art, like portrait painting for instance. We have a number of [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jun 28th, 2010
We have just received the two highly regarded John Pike Palettes at Jackson’s. These large sturdy plastic palettes are considered to be among the best palettes for watercolour and acrylic. The John Pike Watercolor Palette: The ultimate in watercolor and acrylic palettes and The John Pike Big Well Palette for use with large brushes. Click [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jun 27th, 2010
Just a reminder about the current art materials offers that finish on July 4th: Jackson’s Watercolours full pans and 21ml tubes are an extra 20% off the regular price. Rembrandt Oil Colour is an extra 10% off the new lower price. Winsor Artists Acrylic Brushes Set is 20% off the regular discounted price. Daler-Rowney Brush [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Jun 26th, 2010
At Jackson’s we stock 11 calligraphy books to help you put all of our wonderful inks, pens, nibs and papers to good use. The books cover Islamic, Chinese, formal and informal alphabets and lettering, and more. Click here to go to the calligraphy books on the Jackson’s Art website. Click here to go to the [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jun 25th, 2010
An email this morning: Do you have any plans to stock Caligo relief inks? http://www.caligoinks.com/ I keep hearing good things about these for linocut and monoprinting. Regards. Jackson’s: What a coincidence! We are actually getting the Caligo Safe Wash Inks in soon and they should be up on the website in the next week or [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jun 25th, 2010
We have a new source for our little natural sea sponges used by many watercolourists. These sponges are a bit larger and can be cut to size if you need smaller ones. There are 6 to 9 in a bag of sponges. The assorted shapes, sizes and textures make these useful tools for lifting colour [...]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 24th, 2010
TAKE TWO Exhibition on Friday 9th July at 6:30- 9:00 pm Glass Sculptor Isabel Mitchell and Fine Artist Richard Corbett at Dean Oak, Portal Road, Off Beech Road, Monmouth NP25 5DA (Direction Mitchell Troy- drive is immediately on the right after Gibraltar Care Village- take care, traffic). If possible walk or park in the roads [...]
Posted in Announcements on Jun 24th, 2010
The team behind Brighton Art Fair is pleased to announce a brand new art event in the capital: The Palace Art Fair to be held at Fulham Palace, London from 7th – 10th October, 2010. The Palace Art Fair will build on what people like most about the successful Brighton Art Fair, in terms of [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Jun 23rd, 2010
Jackson’s stock the two popular John Barber series’ of books on colour mixing. The Winsor & Newton colour mixing guides for watercolour, acrylic and oil and the Colour Wheel series with books on watercolour, acrylic, oil and pastel. The colour mixing guides show how to match precisely any shade you want to reproduce in your [...]