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Posted in New Products and Special Offers on May 17th, 2011
With the new Daniel Smith Watercolour Ground, anything you’ve dreamed of painting with watercolor can become a reality. It’s easy to use and versatile. After application is dry you can paint on it as you would watercolour paper. Can be applied onto absorbent or semi-absorbent surfaces and requires no special preparation. Suggested absorbent surfaces include [...]
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 New Products and Special Offers on May 13th, 2010
While supplies last you can get a free 60ml Gloss Gel Medium on request with the purchase of any two Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylics. Click Here to go to this offer on the Jackson’s website. Click Here to go to the Winsor & Newton Artists Acrylics on the Jackson’s website.
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Apr 6th, 2010
Jackson’s Oil and Acrylic Painting Mediums are half the list price until May 16th. Our own brand oil painting mediums: refined linseed oil, English distilled turpentine, low odour solvent, glaze medium, fast-drying oil painting medium, pure turpentine, picture varnish (gloss and matte) and the acrylic polymer varnishes are very good value normally. And now they [...]
Posted in Product Information, Favourite Products and Reviews on Mar 18th, 2010
I love that Golden give so much information about their wonderful products. I just found this video that explains the differences between the 3 mediums for use with the Open Acrylics. Open Acrylics Video Their website here also has helpful technical info to go with it. Here is a general description of the properties of [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Mar 18th, 2010
Winsor & Newton has two different products to safely thicken oil paint for heavy brushwork or for painting with a palette knife: Liquin Impasto and Liquin Oleopasto. A few years ago Liquin Oleopasto was discontinued and Winsor & Newton brought out the Liquin Impasto to replace it. But many artists told them the replacement was [...]
Posted in New Products and Special Offers on Mar 11th, 2010
Rarely on offer: Winsor & Newton Watercolour Mediums are half the list price at Jackson’s. Because these are rarely on offer and are so useful, if you haven’t tried any of them before you might want to give it a go, and if you use them regularly you might want to stock up! Winsor & [...]