Talking about art, techniques and materials.
Posted in Announcements on Nov 4th, 2011
Online Charity Art Sale & Exhibition for Trees for Life A unique international art collaboration for Caledonian Forest has been unveiled in Edinburgh on behalf of Trees for Life. It has been organised by Trevor Jones who says in his notes to the exhibition: “This is a fantastic opportunity to support a great cause and [...]
Posted in Art Technique -Technical on Oct 12th, 2011
Art Tips Some recent tips we have shared on our Facebook Page: Tip for sketchbooks: if outdoors use an elastic band, paperclip or similar to stop pages flapping in the breeze. To get straight lines in paint try brushruling. Steady a ruler with one long side on the surface and one tilted up in the [...]
Posted in Announcements on May 25th, 2011
Jackson’s will have a stand at the Patchings Festival with an array of special offers on pads, brushes and watercolour sets. Patchings Art, Craft and Design Festival is from June 9 to 12 hours: daily 10am to 5pm; Sunday until 4.30pm The country’s finest practical art, craft and design event, celebrating 18 years, set in [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on May 13th, 2011
The Pattern Sourcebook series of books all include CD-ROMs with the patterns for digital use. The subjects include two volumes on patterns inspired by nature, two volumes on Japanese style, a book on Chinese style and one with patterns from around the world. These books can be found in our Artist Reference Books section. As [...]
Posted in Announcements on Jan 10th, 2011
A friend passed on this link to The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. It is a compendium of submitted images of “artistic tools, machinery, gadgets, etc. that you feel have bitten the dust.” Most of the items have gone out of common usage because they were used for graphic design and so much of that [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Dec 1st, 2010
We have a whole selection of offers on for the oil and acrylic painters! -We are pleased to be able to offer Daler-Rowney stretched canvases at 60% off list. -We are also doing an extra 10% off the regular discounted prices on our own Jackson’s oils, Jackson’s acrylics and Jackson’s Shiro hog brushes. -We round [...]
Posted in Announcements, New Products and Special Offers on Nov 28th, 2010
We have added a few sections to our kid’s are materials section for those artists-in-training. We call this the Budding Leonardos department on our website. The materials are divided into the following sections: Glitter Glue Kids Craft Kits Paint By Numbers Reeves Redimix Liquid Tempera Snazaroo Face Paints Related departments: Reeves Value Range Hobby and [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Sep 12th, 2010
PrimaTek colours are one of the unique paint styles from Daniel Smith Watercolours, the new make we are so pleased to now stock . Here is what Daniel Smith have to say about their DANIEL SMITH PrimaTek Watercolors: “Our exclusive PrimaTek colors are unique paints made with pure, authentic mineral pigments that are mined directly [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Sep 11th, 2010
I am always pleased when Jackson’s introduces a new range to our selection of art materials. But I am especially excited about our new watercolours. We now stock what many believe to be the highest quality artists’ watercolour available: Daniel Smith. Those of you who read watercolour instruction books and magazines, especially those printed in [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Aug 23rd, 2010
We are pleased to now have our own Jackson’s Painting / Palette Knives. The durable black wood handles are comfortable and lightweight and won’t be damaged by water like varnished wood handles might be. The resilient forged carbon steel blades don’t have the problem of peeling chrome like some other makes and they have a [...]