Prince’s Drawing School Exhibition
Posted in Exhibitions on May 11th, 2011
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Uses of a putty rubber
Posted in Art Technique -Technical on Apr 20th, 2011
Scribbly stan: uses of putty rubber Our guest beginner artist has written a bit to explain how he uses a putty rubber (also called a kneaded or kneadable eraser). This little beauty has saved me on a number of occasions primarily because it can erase coloured pencil. As I mentioned before I often combine coloured [...]
Conte Carres at Jackson’s
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Apr 20th, 2011
The Conte a Paris brand is synonymous with drawing. The versatile and expressive Conte Carres hard pastels come in traditional sketching colours as well as new modern colours. Gaining the same reputation are the new soft pastels and pastel pencils. We now stock most of the Conte range at Jackson’s Art Supplies including the graphite [...]
Derwent : 5 Piece Essential Drawing Tools Kit
Posted in Product Information, Favourite Products and Reviews on Apr 11th, 2011
The Derwent 5 Piece Essential Drawing Tools Kit includes two embossing tools with different sized heads, a rubber shaper, a fan brush with an additional rubber shaper on the opposite end, and a stipple brush. Derwent have put together a set of 5 essential Drawing Tools designed to enhance your creative enjoyment. Each set contains: [...]
Wooden Mini Mannequins
Posted in Product Information, Favourite Products and Reviews on Mar 23rd, 2011
Our Wooden Mini Magnetic Mannequins come in 2 sizes: 2.5 and 5.5 inch tall At just .95 and £2.50 they are a fantastic price and the smallest one is even free if you place an order of £50 (be sure to request it, it isn’t automatic). With magnets in their hands they can be posed [...]
NEW Derwent Inktense Blocks
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Mar 22nd, 2011
Derwent have followed up on the popularity of their Inktense Pencils with their new Inktense Blocks. These chunky water-soluble ink blocks are extremely versatile and can be used for a wide range of creative effects. You can use them like pans of paint, dip them in water and apply colour directly to the paper, use [...]
Stabilising drawings on top of acrylic paint
Posted in Art Technique -Technical on Mar 21st, 2011
If you draw with graphit or coloured pencil, charcoal or conte crayons on top of acrylic paint you may find that the drawing smears or rubs away. But when you try to paint clear acrylic polymer over it to seal it you ruin the drawing marks. The solution is to spray a sealer over the [...]
FW Acrylic Inks Offer
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Mar 16th, 2011
Daler-Rowney FW Liquid Acrylic Artists’ Inks are on offer at Jackson’s at £3.60 per bottle. That is 30% off the RRP / an additional 20% off our regular discounted price. (RRP = £5.25 / our regular price = £4.50 / offer price = £3.60) FW Artists’ Acrylic Ink is an acrylic based pigmented water resistant [...]
Cretacolour Sets Offer
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Mar 15th, 2011
Cretacolor makes some irresistible sets of drawing materials that inspire you to draw. Just opening one of these boxes of art materials will get your creativity flowing! We have these sets at 25% off the list price until April 19th. The selection of 28 different sets includes Aquamonolith, Aquastics, sketching sets, Art Chunky coloured charcoal, [...]
Soft pencils smudge in a sketchbook
Posted in Books and Reviews on Feb 25th, 2011
“Typically I don’t use anything softer than a 2B pencil in my sketchbooks these days. I like a darker pencil, but they smudge easily in a book that’s opened and closed frequently.” -Sherrie York From the book Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists: 52 exercises to make drawing fun! by Carla Sondheim. You can find this [...]