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Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Feb 23rd, 2011
Sennelier has created limited edition Nature Collection sets. All the colours are made using only 100% natural pigments. Several of the colours were made especially for these sets and do not appear in the normal Sennelier ranges. There are four sets: oil colours, soft pastels, oil pastels, and watercolours. Using Sennelier’s original 19th century formulas [...]
Posted in Books and Reviews on Dec 28th, 2010
Colour Theory Books We stock more than 25 books on colour theory, a very popular subject. There are a number of approaches to using colour in art and with our wide selection we probably have a book about colour that will help you on your way in your exploration of this vast and interesting area.
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Nov 3rd, 2010
Schmincke has introduced seven new metallic colours in their Mussini oil colour range. Mussini is a range based on old masters’ formulations of natural resin oil colours which are unique throughout the world. All seven shades are highly pigmented, extremely lightfast and opaque. Five colours contain real bronze pigment (except for copper) and the white [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Sep 15th, 2010
A free tube of Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colour at Jackson’s Art Supplies- Buy any 3 tubes of Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colour and on request get a free 37ml Titanium White for every 3 tubes you buy. This offer will end Oct 31st Winsor & Newton Artists’ Oil Colour is unmatched for [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Aug 5th, 2010
Golden Acrylics have introduced five new colours to their heavy body range: bismuth vanadate yellow, transparent brown iron oxide, pyrrole red dark, permanent maroon, chromium oxide green dark. These five new colors each offer unique properties that will complement the colours already in the Heavy Body family. We stock them in four sizes. Golden Heavy [...]
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). I have [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]