Jackson's Art Blog

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). [...]

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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 [...]

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A new painter has asked for a good starter set of oil paints. I made up a list for him and thought others might find it helpful.
Jackson’s oil paints are very popular. They are artist quality at student prices. So you get big tubes at a really good price. The 12 [...]

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In addition to our own Jackson’s brand of canvases, paper, mounts, accessories like brush cases and pastel blenders, sculpture supplies, easy-assemble framing, painting mediums and primers, silk cloth, academy easels, and an extensive array of high quality brushes, Jackson’s do paints as well.
Jackson’s watercolours, acrylics and oils are all artist quality, comparable quality to [...]

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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 [...]

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