Talking about art, techniques and materials.
Posted in Product Information, Favourite Products and Reviews on Jul 28th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jul 6th, 2010
We are pleased to now stock at Jackson’s the premium paint range Lascaux from Switzerland. The world renowned artist materials they produce include studio and artists acrylics and mediums, the unusual Sirius watercolours based on a 5-primary colour system, gouache and printmaking tusches (for painting positives to expose photo plates and screens with). [...]
Posted in Book 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 [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Jun 1st, 2010
Golden have added 40 new colours to the popular Open Artists Acrylics range.
Golden Open Acrylics are a slow-drying formulation with a slightly softer consistency than Golden Heavy Body paints. The increased working time of these colors expands their range to include more traditional techniques once only possible with oils.
Because Open Acrylics dry slowly, painters who [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Apr 12th, 2010
AV Artists’ Acrylic Colour Offer
Every year this range grows exponentially in its popularity. It is surely the best value for money professional acrylic available. AV Artists’ Colour is manufactured with the very best pigments available for fine arts colours, suspended in an emulsion of a 100% pure acrylic resin. The formula remains true to the [...]